From products we use to clothes we wear, and spaces we inhabit, we rely
on colour to provide visual appeal, data codes and meaning. Color and
Design addresses how we understand and experience colour, and through
specific examples explores how colour is used in a spectrum of
design-based disciplines including apparel design, graphic design,
interior design, and product design.
Through highly engaging contributions from a wide range of international
scholars and practitioners, the book explores colour as an individual
and cultural phenomenon, as a pragmatic device for communication, and as
a valuable marketing tool.
Color and Design provides a comprehensive overview for scholars and an
accessible text for students on a range of courses within design,
fashion, cultural studies, anthropology, sociology and visual and
material culture. Its exploration of colour in marketing as well as
design makes this book an invaluable resource for professional
designers. It will also allow practitioners to understand how and why
colour is so extensively varied and offers such enormous potential to
communicate.