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    Become An Exceptional Designer: Effective Colour Selection For You And Your Client
    Become An Exceptional Designer: Effective Colour Selection For You And Your Client
    Become An Exceptional Designer: Effective Colour Selection For You And Your Client
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    Become An Exceptional Designer: Effective Colour Selection For You And Your Client

    By Michael Dean

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    Great Design Begins With Colour - Every Time! Learn The Secrets Of Colour From An Architect And Interior Designer With Over A Decade Of Industry Experience.An in-depth understanding of colour is one of the most useful and important assets to a visual professional. Start creating the best possible design outcome through exceptional colour understanding, coordination and application.

    "Thorough: from the bottom to the top. This book broadened my mind. In a word: Awesome!" - Andrew Bushard

    Providing designers and visual professionals with everything they need to become true, confident colourists.

    You’ll Learn
    1.An in-depth understanding of colour
    2.How to vastly increase design quality through colour selection
    3.How to work successfully with colour
    4.How to apply colour principals to art and design
    5.Understand colour mixing in any given scenario
    6.How to apply colour psychology to design outcomes
    7.How to select colour effectively based on colour theory
    8.How to choose the right colours to use to for the given application
    9.How to create the best possible colour coordination

    ... and much, much more!

    Take action now by taking this course and claim your most important asset to your design career.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMichael Dean
    Release dateNov 8, 2015
    ISBN9781310026546
    Become An Exceptional Designer: Effective Colour Selection For You And Your Client

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    • 1/5
      author is confused. cannot understand color theory but this book is about color theory !!!
      author states red yellow blue are primary colors, maybe for kids books but not in reality.
      c m y are primary pigment colors, the authors states that these are process and print colors.....just because they use them in printers does not make them primary process colors. there is no red pigment in primaries. and if you base your theory on nature, them there is also tertiary color pigmetns available. so color theory is wrong in this book quite francly.
    • 5/5
      Great guide on balancing colours for my illustrations. A book you might wanna get back to once in a while for a refresh
    • 1/5
      Superficial. Pop knowledge. I have nothing more to say about this book.

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    Become An Exceptional Designer - Michael Dean

    Lecture ONE: Colour Is Perhaps The Most Powerful Tool At A Designers Disposal

    It affects our emotions and can convey any mood from delight to despair. Because the possibilities of colour are endless, the art of using colour well is an open-ended and complex discipline, which naturally incorporates many different points of view and poses many different questions.

    Scientists have tried for centuries to understand what creates colours and how and why we see them. Colour theorists have condensed the infinite number of visible colour variations into a few basic colours and formed theories about their relationship. However it is hard to satisfactorily explain all colour phenomena.

    Colour is one of the constants in our lives. We learn, work, live and sometimes even dream in colour. From the time we wake up to the time we go to sleep, we live among the ever-changing colours around us. Colour is a direct result of chemical and physical relationships to light. All colour is sourced through light. Without light colour does not exist.

    Colour is like the air we breathe -we don't truly appreciate it or even fully realise it is there until we begin to think about it in a serious context like decorating. Colour has always been the designers’ most powerful, versatile and evocative tool. It is also the cheapest and the quickest way of changing an environment. Yet most people find working with colour intimidating, confusing and even scary.

    Imaginative and satisfying colours generally cost no more than safe pedestrian colour choices. Hesitant designers collect paint swatches by the dozen, magazine pictures and references, carpet and textile cuttings and then spend hours agonizing over the outcome, and usually in desperation they stay within safe colour boundaries by using nondescript colours which always include magnolia, ivory, cream and white, that often end in a disappointing result.

    Lecture TWO: What This Course Covers

    The objectives of this course are as follows:

    To develop an understanding of the effects of colour -visually, psychologically and symbolically.

    To become proficient in colour mixing.

    To develop an appreciation of colour

    To investigate the relationship of colour structure

    To develop a colour vocabulary

    To develop skills in the application of the colour theories.

    To provide a basic working knowledge of colour theories.

    To apply this information in projects and designs

    Lecture THREE: Confidence In Handling Colour Comes With Practice And Experience

    Many elements go into the successful design of a space, whether commercial or domestic. One of the most important is colour. Used strategically, colour can visually reshape a space to feel less constrained, more comfortable or better proportioned. Particular colours can also reflect a particular design style or period. It is the one thing we can most easily control, and often with remarkable results.

    The effect of painting a room is far greater than simply just colouring the walls. The colour interacts with light and all the other elements in creating an atmosphere. Strategic use of colour can mask structural difficulties, and highlight architectural triumphs, celebrate the character of a place or compensate for its weaknesses.

    We are all aware of which colours we personally like and

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