Creative Ideas of Materials and Products

Terisio Pignatti
La Nuova Italia

AA.VV.
Giorgio Mondadori e associati

Silvia Giacomoni, Federica Galli
Compagnia del disegno

Antonio Guarnieri
Inverni della beffa

Hans Richter
Editore Stampatore Giulio Topi

Charles Malin, Perrault
Alberto Tallone

Giorgio Milesi
Minerva Italica

Leonardo Castellani
Neri Pozza Editore

Renato Roli
Silvio Vecchietti Editore

Ben Nicholson
Editore Stampatore Giulio Topi

Garth Lewis
Batsford

A rich resource for all designers and artists looking for inspiration and guidance on colour combinations. A huge range of combinations is provided, with full readings for both CMYK (for designers working in print) and RGB (for Web-based and other multi-media designers). As an accomplished colour theorist, the author looks at colour combinations through various elements of colour theory, from hues, values and chroma to working with concepts such as simultaneous contrast and perceptual transparency. The author has also generated an inspirational series of colour palettes taken from photographs of the world around us, depicting landscapes, urban subjects and everyday objects. The book also contains a selection of work from cutting-edge designers and artists who explain the use of colour in their work and offer exciting new palettes. The colour combinations are rendered as two- and three-colour graphics, stripe studies and more unstructured and complex compositions, all of which showcase the huge variety of effects that can be achieved with colour. This fascinating book reveals the true magic of colour and is an essential reference book for any designer and artist.

Louis Bou
Basheer Graphic Books

In a time defined by digital interaction, receiving a physical invitation can often feel like receiving a gift, especially when the invitation is as elaborate as those in U R Invited. Far from plain form letters on cardstock, these invitations are embossed, engraved and laser-cut, wrapped around bars of chocolate or records, and contain everything from seeds and masks to rice to be thrown at weddings. U R Invited beckons readers to join in celebrations all over the world with invitations for fashion and design events, restaurant openings, award ceremonies, and parties for occasions ranging from baptisms to birthday bacchanals represented. For these design-focused revelers, an invitation not only informs guests, but entices them with its depiction of the events theme and style. Whether sophisticated and modern or entrenched in a wild, colorful design aesthetic, the invitations of U R Invited are sure to inspire anticipation and excitement in anyone who opens its pages.