Principles of Color Design: Designing with Electronic Color

by Wucius Wong

A complete revision of what is considered the classic introduction to color for all graphic designers and artists. This book provides a solid foundation for the development of personal color sense, and a practical examination of the myriad effects that can be achieved with color.

Genres: Design, Art, Art Design, Nonfiction

210 pages, Paperback

First published November 15, 1986

About the author

Born 1936 in Guangdong Province. Studied art and design in the United States from 1961 to 1965. Awarded study grant by the John D. Rockefeller III Fund in 1971, Emeritus Fellowship by the Hong Kong Arts Development Council in 1998, and Bronze Bauhinia Star Medal by the SAR Government in 2007. Worked as Excutive Assistant of the Extramural Department of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Assistant Curator of the City Museum and Art Gallery, and Principal Lecturer of the School of Design of the Hong Kong Polytechnic. Participated in the Sao Paulo Biennial of Brazil in 1961, the Shanghai Biennial in 1998, and the “China: 5,000 Years” presented by the Guggenheim Museum at New York in 1998 and at Bilbao in 1999. Retrospective exhibition presented by the Hong Kong Museum of Art in 2006, and by the Macao Government in 2010. Work featured in the collections of the Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong Heritage Museum, Shanghai Art Museum, Changzhou Art Museum, British Museum, Ashmolean Museum, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Art Institute of Chicago, Minnesota Art Museum, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Cleveland Museum of Art, Asian Art Museum in San Francisco, Sackler Museum of the Harvard University, Museum fur Ostasiatische Kunst, Berlin, and National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia. Authored many books on art and design published in different languages in Hong Kong, Taipei, New York, Barcelona, and Indonesia. Now Adjunct Professor of the Fine Arts Department of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and Honorary Museum Expert Adviser to the Leisure and Culture Department of the Hong Kong Government.

Reviews

[Lucía · Rating 4 out of 5]

Es un GRAN libro en el que se explican los principios de color y cómo funcionan en colores luz y colores pigmento.

La primera parte habla de manera general de la composición y cómo crear puntos de interés en un plano.

La segunda parte es mi favorita, puesto que habla de los principios del color y cómo funciona. Incluye explicaciones e ilustraciones muy claras sobre conceptos de diseño como valor, intensidad, tono, armonías de color, circulo cromático, colores complementarios, contrastes, etc.

Y en la última parte se centra en cómo utilizar las familias de colores para la creación de algo.

Hubo algunos ejemplos que ya se van quedan obsoletos (en la parte del Software y versiones que menciona) pero los conceptos siguen vigentes si trasladamos esos conceptos a Softwares actuales.

[Aleexito · Rating 4 out of 5]

Si tú profesora les dice: "todo lo sue veremos está en tal libro"... Es mejor leerlo, me lo lei a un mes de terminar el semestre y sin dudas si lo hubiera leído antes hubiera estado adelante de todos!!!

[Kristian · Rating 3 out of 5]

Interesting foray into the science of colors and color mixing, etc... A little dry, and the examples are stale. There is coverage on all aspects of color science, and why different colors can make things seem more voluminous or whatever, but it is a little redundant, and like I said, the writing could use some sprucing up to make it a more enjoyable 100 pages. If you are an insane art student that wants to know as much as possible about anything color related, this is for you. If not, you might not make it the full 100 pages.