What is color? 50 questions and answers about the nature of color
29.99 €
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What is color? 50 questions and answers about the nature of color
29.99 €
Artists and designers of all stripes, marketers, manufacturers, and even the shopper trying to figure out if the brown chair in the room will match the brown sofa - everyone wants to understand color and tame it, because color is a beast. Ariel and Joanne Eckstut, authors of "What is Color?" offer a curious and very visual exploration of the science of color. Organized by the 50 most important questions about color from a variety of fields-physics, chemistry, biology, technology, and psychology-this book explores:
- How and why we see color;
- how color relates to light;
- what the primary colors are;
- what hue is;
- what the color wheel is;
- what trichromacy and metamerism are;
- how biology, language, and culture affect colors;
- how we see color, and much more.
We hope this book will help you begin to understand what color is, how to work with it, and how to appreciate its beauty and complexity. Even if you are just a color enthusiast who enjoys the sight of fall foliage, the visual world becomes full of wonders and much more interesting when you have science under your belt. This book is for artists and designers, scientists, students and decorators, and anyone else whose work involves color.
- How and why we see color;
- how color relates to light;
- what the primary colors are;
- what hue is;
- what the color wheel is;
- what trichromacy and metamerism are;
- how biology, language, and culture affect colors;
- how we see color, and much more.
We hope this book will help you begin to understand what color is, how to work with it, and how to appreciate its beauty and complexity. Even if you are just a color enthusiast who enjoys the sight of fall foliage, the visual world becomes full of wonders and much more interesting when you have science under your belt. This book is for artists and designers, scientists, students and decorators, and anyone else whose work involves color.
See also:
- All books by the publisher
- All books by the author
- All books in the series School of Drawing