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Patterns and Palette Sourcebook: A Complete Guide to Choosing the Perfect Color and Pattern in Design [Paperback]

Anvil (Author)
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Book Description

July 1, 2005
This hardworking reference book is an invaluable tool for art directors, designers, and students working in the fashion, product, and graphic design fields, as well as anyone in the business of visual communication.

The Pattern and Palette Sourcebook is a desktop library of colors and patterns that addresses the professionalÆs real-world needs in working with harmonies and contrasts. Divided into six unique style sections, the book provides readers with 15 appropriate colors for each section, which are then incorporated into 25 different patterns shown in six or eight color variations each. This enables readers to see the dramatic effect colors have in design and helps them better understand how to use color effectively. The book also demonstrates ways of creating designs that are distinctly unique from one another yet hold together in a group. This book is a must have for designers of all disciplines and experience levels.


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About the Author

Anvil is a design firm that specializes in identity, packaging, and Web design. Some of their clients include AIGA, IDEO, Palm, Visa, SFMoMa, and Sun Microsystems. In 1999 Anvil began designing high-end gift wrap, which has won numerous awards from the Western Art Directors Club, Print Regional Design Annual, Graphic Design:USA, HOW, and Dynamic Graphics Magazine. They are located in Redwood City, California.

Product Details

  • Paperback: 208 pages
  • Publisher: Rockport Publishers (July 1, 2005)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 159253161X
  • ISBN-13: 978-1592531615
  • Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.5 x 0.8 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,072,405 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

 

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1.0 out of 5 stars Junk, November 12, 2005
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This review is from: Patterns and Palette Sourcebook: A Complete Guide to Choosing the Perfect Color and Pattern in Design (Paperback)
First of all the content on the CD is not resuable in anyway. It comes with a semi-functional interactive CD that will allow you to print patterns but they are all locked Flash files so you can not use them in illustrator or in any other program.

The book itself is page after page of repeated patterns with slight color adjustment. The patterns are uninspired and dated. I would not recommend this book to anyone if I could give it negative stars i would.
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19 of 20 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars Wasted Purchase, April 25, 2006
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This review is from: Patterns and Palette Sourcebook: A Complete Guide to Choosing the Perfect Color and Pattern in Design (Paperback)
I have to share the same sentiments with a few of the other reviewers. Typically, when a CD-ROM comes with a book of this nature, one would expect the visual content (in this case the patterns displayed in this book) to be available on the disc itself. Not the case here, which I thought was a bit deceiving. It would have been much smarter (and more practical for the end user) for the book author to have provided the patterns as EPS files for use in a vector based software application such as Adobe Illustrator or Corel Draw. Otherwise what good is it to look at these patterns when you can't easily recreate them?
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27 of 31 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars unhelpful book..., September 23, 2005
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I bought this book because i thought i can use the pattern in the cd provided, but unfortunately you cant use any of them, they saved it as flash animation format. Unlike the other book I have purchased "the complete pattern library" where you can use any pattern in the book and even change the colors of them.
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