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Principles of Color Design

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It explains very well the color principle and some design techniques. It is a good book for beginning graphic artists with no formal art background (those who never studied art/GD in school). There are 5 parts to this book. Part one establishes desing principles, part 2 examines common color principles related to the use of color pigments, part 3 helps the beginner develop systematic color thinking with the aid of excercises, part 4 introduces priciples and techniques for generating colors on the computer and part 5 presents color sets and guides for attaining color harmony.

Note, however, that this book is a bit outdated. It showed when trying to explain certain design techniques using old version Photoshop tool bar.

This book was chosen for our Color Theory class in college. Luckily, this wasn't my first Color Theory class, so I could understand most of what the book said. However, it is a horrible read. There are several typos and incorrect information that the professor had to correct. The wording is hard to follow, so several times I found myself back-tracking just to figure out what the subject being discussed was. After a couple of classes, our professor abandoned the book entirely as it was too much trouble for the student's to read.
I would not recommend this book to anyone just starting out in color theory/design.

I actually perchased this book two years ago in college for an art class and have used it in almost every assignment and project I have completed there after.

This is not the best book out there. The first section of the 5 section book goes into form and shape theory, which although useful in design, is just filler to give the book more pages. The color theory sections are fairly basic. I think there are better books out there, especially for the price.

As a college professor, I found this book very useful for my fundamentals of design class. It has helped my students with their understanding of design, colors, and terms that they will need in the professional field of art.

Principles of Color Design (Purchased on 08/06/2010)
by Wucius Wong--------I LOVE MY BOOK. THANKS AMAZON. HAVE A GEAT DAY.

I haven't got any formal art background and have found this book to be extremely useful. However, it may or may not get much higher - I can't tell since I'm a newbie, but I keep in mind my experience with some other books on other subjects: while I was a beginner I found them great; now I think they're just fine for beginners.