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The Designer's Guide to Global Color Combinations: 750 Color Formulas in CMYK and RGB from Around the World
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Author: Leslie Cabarga
List Price: $35.00
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ISBN: 1581801955
Publisher: North Light Books (January, 2003)
Edition: Hardcover
Sales Rank: 36,324
Average Customer Rating: 4.22 out of 5
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Customer ReviewsRating: 4 out of 5
A Great Time-Waster (I Mean That in the Best Way)
A practical book, a beautiful book and a wonderful resource. Even if you have no need for a graphic design book, this would make a great coffee table book to impress your friends. For the graphic designer, fresh color combinations can (and have for me) changed the direction of an entire project. I work with small business clients in a wide range of businesses and have found this book invaluable for starting new projects, establishing an identity or finding a few neat color combos for a flyer. This book is worth the money!
Rating: 3 out of 5
Global Color
This book looks beautiful and does have many color combinations to inspire. I was disappointed by the lack of information on the background of why the countries covered would favor the colors they do. Also, Canada was not covered and sarcasm written about their tardy submission-so all Canadians should suffer because of this? The book would be useful if you have a number of color references already as this uses a different approach.
Rating: 5 out of 5
A must for any visual artist
Along with its companion book in the series - The Designer's Guide to Color Combinations, The Designer's Guide to "Global" Color Combinations forms an essential reference for any visual artist or print publisher. I recommend these books to my students for their concept, storyboarding, color design, and animation layout work. Each page breaks down a period, era, or style, and analyzes its color makeup with color and contrast swatches, CMYK data for each color, and a series of various combinations that are possible using the specified palette. An artist could spend hours testing and comparing colors. Or they could look through these pages and find a color scheme in minutes.
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