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Author: Jude Stewart
ISBN : 1608196135
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(12 reviews)Author: Jude Stewart
ISBN : 1608196135
New from $11.87
Format: PDF
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Color is all around us every day. We use it to interpret the world—red means stop, blue means water, orange means construction. But it is also written into our metaphors, of speech and thought alike: yellow means cowardice; green means envy—unless you’re in Germany, where yellow means envy, and you can be “beat up green and yellow.”
Jude Stewart, a design expert and writer, digs into this rich subject with gusto. What color is the universe? We might say it’s black, but astrophysicists think it might be turquoise. Unless it’s beige. To read about color from Jude Stewart is to unlock a whole different way of looking at the world around us—and bringing it all vividly to life.
The book itself is organized around the rainbow and is lavishly designed, with cross-references that liven up each page. (Follow the thread of imperialism, for example, from the pink-colored colonies on maps of the British Empire to the green wallpaper that might have killed Napoleon.) A lovingly packaged, distinctive book, it will be the only one of its kind.
ROY G. BIV is a reference and inspiration for designers and artists, as well as a unique, beautiful, and irresistible book for just about anyone.
Jude Stewart, a design expert and writer, digs into this rich subject with gusto. What color is the universe? We might say it’s black, but astrophysicists think it might be turquoise. Unless it’s beige. To read about color from Jude Stewart is to unlock a whole different way of looking at the world around us—and bringing it all vividly to life.
The book itself is organized around the rainbow and is lavishly designed, with cross-references that liven up each page. (Follow the thread of imperialism, for example, from the pink-colored colonies on maps of the British Empire to the green wallpaper that might have killed Napoleon.) A lovingly packaged, distinctive book, it will be the only one of its kind.
ROY G. BIV is a reference and inspiration for designers and artists, as well as a unique, beautiful, and irresistible book for just about anyone.
- Hardcover: 176 pages
- Publisher: Bloomsbury USA; 1 edition (September 17, 2013)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1608196135
- ISBN-13: 978-1608196135
- Product Dimensions: 7.6 x 7.3 x 0.9 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
{PRETITLE} ROY G. BIV: An Exceedingly Surprising Book About Color {POSTTITLE}
Like many a classic work of nonfiction, this book takes a subject so commonplace that it's almost become invisible-- color-- and gets us to see it, as if for the first time. Colors shape our identities-- our clothes, our rooms, our personal effects are chosen in large part based on our associations with different colors, conscious or otherwise. The genius of Jude Stewart's lively, well-written book is that it allows us to delve deeply into the history, sociology, and psychology of color without any decrease in wonder. Just as a good poem explores its subject with rigor and passion, Stewart's writing illuminates the stories behind colors without diminishing them. This book will be invaluable to the design community, but it also belongs on the shelves of serious readers everywhere.By J. L. Goodwin
For someone who designs for a living, Jude Stewart surprises by publishing a book that is ironically uncolorful. It is chock full of blocky text, consisting mostly of folk tales, clichés, pop science and pop culture that mention a color. It gets tedious; there is nothing breaking it up. There are no examples, no illustrations, no photos, no swatches to show how dramatic that particular color really is - after she spends a paragraph telling us just that.By David Wineberg
What there is are descriptions in plain English, in black text, in plain block form. Plus references to other pages in the book where the same phrase is explained, underlined in a color. About the only substantial color are the two page spreads that begin each chapter - each a color, of course. They list all the anecdotes you're about to read over a timeline. Not very useful or inspired. Occasionally there is a page dedicated to a quote, and the quote is on a color background, with maybe a simple, stock, one color image like a raindrop or a pail.
There are far better books that cover the same territory, only infinitely more innovatively. They are far more engaging, far better laid out, and much more useful than this one. The surprise here is how disappointing it is. Design is all but absent.
David Wineberg
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