Playing with Color
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Playing with Color

50 Graphic Experiments for Exploring Color Design Principles

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eBook - PDF

Playing with Color

50 Graphic Experiments for Exploring Color Design Principles

About this book

Playing with Color is a highly accessible, fun approach to learning color application and principles. This hands-on book begins with an introduction to the philosophy of learning through the process of play. It then leads to a series of experimental design projects with an emphasis on color, providing the reader with a "toolkit" of ideas and skills. The awareness and sensitivity to form, color, material and craft gained through these visual experiments will increase the designer's confidence in their personal and professional design work. This book can be used in the classroom or independently, and readers can go directly to exercises that appeal to them.

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Publisher
Rockport Publishers
Year
2013
Print ISBN
9781592538089
eBook ISBN
9781610586412
Topic
Art
Subtopic
Art Theory & Criticism
Š 
2013 
Rockport 
Publishers
Text 
Š 
2013 
Richard 
Mehl
First 
published 
in 
the 
United 
States 
of 
America 
in 
2013 
by
Rockport 
Publishers, 
a 
member 
of 
Quayside 
Publishing 
Group
100 
Cummings 
Center
Suite 
406-L
Beverly, 
Massachusetts 
01915-6101
Telephone: 
(978) 
282-9590
Fax: 
(978) 
283-2742
All 
rights 
reserved. 
No 
part 
of 
this 
book 
may 
be 
reproduced 
in 
any 
form 
without 
written 
permission 
of 
the 
copyright 
owners. 
All 
images 
in 
this 
book 
have 
been 
reproduced 
with 
the 
knowledge 
and 
prior 
consent 
of 
the 
artists 
concerned, 
and 
no 
responsibility 
is 
accepted 
by 
producer, 
publisher, 
or 
printer 
for 
any 
infringement 
of 
copyright 
or 
otherwise, 
arising 
from 
the 
contents 
of 
this 
publication. 
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effort 
has 
been 
made 
to 
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that 
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information 
supplied. 
We 
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inaccuracies 
that 
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have 
occurred 
and 
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resolve 
inaccurate 
or 
missing 
information 
in 
a 
subsequent 
reprinting 
of 
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book.
10 
9 
8 
7 
6 
5 
4 
3 
2 
1
ISBN: 
978-1-59253-808-9
Digital 
edition 
published 
in 
2013
eISBN: 
978-1-61058-641-2
Library 
of 
Congress 
Cataloging-in-Publication 
Data
Mehl, 
Richard. 
Playing 
with 
color: 
50 
graphic 
experiments 
for 
exploring 
color 
design 
principles 
/ 
Richard 
Mehl.
pages 
cm 
— 
(Playing) 
Summary: 
“Playing 
with 
Color 
is 
a 
highly 
accessible, 
fun 
approach 
to 
learning 
color 
application 
and 
principles. 
This 
hands-on 
book 
begins 
with 
an 
introduction 
to 
the 
philosophy 
of 
learning 
through 
the 
process 
of 
play. 
It 
then 
leads 
to 
a 
series 
of 
experimental 
design 
projects 
with 
an 
emphasis 
on 
color, 
providing 
the 
reader 
with 
a 
“toolkit” 
of 
ideas 
and 
skills. 
The 
awareness 
and 
sensitivity 
to 
form, 
color, 
material 
and 
craft 
gained 
through 
these 
visual 
experiments 
will 
increase 
the 
designer’s 
condence 
in 
their 
personal 
and 
professional 
design 
work. 
This 
book 
can 
be 
used 
in 
the 
classroom 
or 
independently, 
and 
readers 
can 
go 
directly 
to 
exercises 
that 
appeal 
to 
them” 
— 
Provided 
by 
publisher.
ISBN 
978-1-59253-808-9 
(pbk.) 
1. 
Color 
in 
design. 
I. 
Title.
NK1548.M45 
2013
701’.85--dc23
2012030730 
This 
book 
was 
designed 
and 
typeset 
by 
the 
author. 
The 
primary 
typeface 
is 
Univers 
45; 
small 
heads 
set 
in 
Univers 
65.
Photographs 
on 
the 
cover, 
title 
pages, 
and 
pages 
8–9, 
15, 
18–19, 
28, 
36–37, 
42, 
72–73, 
138–139, 
140–141, 
160–161, 
183–187, 
191
Printed 
in 
China

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Contents
  4. Introduction
  5. Play = learning
  6. Practice and theory
  7. A continuum of color
  8. The teachings of Itten and Albers
  9. The playing process
  10. Color and design glossary
  11. The experiments
  12. Conclusion: the joy of seeing color in nature
  13. Appendix
  14. Index
  15. Contributors
  16. Bibliography
  17. End notes
  18. Acknowledgments
  19. About the author