Dewey Color Coordinator: Create Sensible Stunning Color Combinations [Spiral-bound]

Dewey Sadka (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 28, 2001

The Dewey Color Coordinator is a unique and indispensable color-matching guide. It gives the reader (and shopper!) , color combinations for fashion and furnishings. Color coordinates are found in this spiral-bound guide thats based on an intriguing and revolutionary new personality evaluation, the Dewey Color System. This companion book offers color combinations that work with your personality traits. (The Dewey Color System --- is based on the concept that color can be used to reveal the core of an individuals personality.) For more information about the Dewey Color Sytem please see the feature article and quiz at http//www.ivillage.com/dewey.

Editorial Reviews

Review

..a convenient, portable guide ..gives you the confidence of a color expert. ... mix/match colors the way nature intended...." -- Color Marketing Group

Color is everywhere in our daily lives. It expresses our emotions, it reflects our heritage, it embodies our tastes, it -- Jay de Sibor, CMG, President, Color Marketing Group, 19 June 2001

Dewey Sadka illuminates your personality and relationships to inspire positive change. -- Dr. Betty Siegal-Kennesaw State University

Positively impact your life with effective color coordinates. -- NADA-Color Design Consultant

From the Publisher

The Dewey Color Coordinator applies personality profiling features of the revolutionary Dewey Color System (tm), and is ideal for the profesionnal or do-it-yourself decorator, designer, artist or color enthusiast. This one-of-a-kind shopping companion offers easy to match, yet sophisticated pairings for fashion and furnishings. Over 25,000 color combinations are created in the softcover, spiral bound book with perforated mix /n match swatches.

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Product Details

• Spiral-bound: 294 pages
• Publisher: Energia, Inc. (January 28, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0967120713
• ISBN-13: 978-0967120713
• Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 5.2 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,831,922 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

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28 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A very handy guide for decorating and matching colors, August 21, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Dewey Color Coordinator: Create Sensible Stunning Color Combinations (Spiral-bound)

This has been the most helpful book I've discovered for matching colors as I spruce up my house. Flipping through all the color combinations gives me great ideas, then the really cool part about using the tear-out color strips to match my couch, then taking them with me to the store to match to the perfect carpet! No need to cart the whole book with me. I know it will also come in handy next time I go clothes shopping too. His other book, Dewey Color System, about color discovery in your life and understanding yourself through color sounds funs and fascinating - I can't wait to get it too!

8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Book Repeats the Same Color Combinations Over & Over!, August 30, 2002

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JosyMaude "josymaude" (Sarasota, FL USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Dewey Color Coordinator: Create Sensible Stunning Color Combinations (Spiral-bound)

I own many art books on color for interior design, fashion, desk top publishing and books on color for the artist and colorist. This book is over priced for the information and color samples which you recieve. I followed the instructions of tearing the samples out. I discovered that of the 50 or 100 samples that I removed from the book, that the colors of these samples were repeated over and over.

In the end, I might have received maybe 12 to 15 different distinct colors in my samples. There were at least 6 or more of the same color samples repeated in my stack of color samples. The same color combinations were also repeated over and over in the book, i.e., for the chapter on Red, you would have combinations of that red with other colors, say, Blue as one of the colors in the sample group. Let's call that group sample group "A", for clarity in my explaination. Later, when you got to the Chapter on Blue, that same sample group "A" (consisting of that Red and Blue, etc.) occured again. The same small set of a dozen or so of the color groups were repeated in the various chapters of this book.

The book is cute but not worth $28 in my humble opinion. It would be much more useful and cost effective to buy a color wheel and look at the various color combos. In this book, you're getting only a dozen or so unique color swatches and then the swatches are combined to form a dozen or so color combinations. Then these color combinations are repeated in the chapters that follow.

9 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars I disagree on the previous review!!!, October 23, 2002

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larry burris (Indianapolis, IN) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Dewey Color Coordinator: Create Sensible Stunning Color Combinations (Spiral-bound)

This coordinator helped me in ways that reflect its use. Its NOT designed to create infinite color combinations but uses the colors at the core of its spectrum and creates a huge amount of shades and combinations....certain colors that look wrong together in a paint store, appear more appealing in this book...

Im very impressed with the layout and would tell anyone thats interested in blending and comparing and understanding the nuances and meaning of certain color combinations to use this as a tool!!....