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Kelvin: Colour TodayColour currently plays an increasingly significant role in global visual communication.
More than ever, colour is being deliberately utilized to give design projects, campaigns and brands their own distinctive style.
Astonishingly until now hardly any publications exist that investigate today's evolving perception and application of colour.
Colour, more specifically colour temperature, is measured in a unit called the Kelvin.
The book Kelvin identifies which possibilities exist for the conscious use of colour.
Each chapter relates to a colour: blue, red, yellow, green, purple, brown and orange, as well as the achromatic "colours" black and white in addition to special colours and rainbow.
This comprehensive book contains recent, top quality graphic design as well as exciting projects from illustration, photography, product design, interior design, architecture and art that work with colour in remarkable ways.
In addition to images of clear and distinctive colour allocation, Kelvin also includes more intricate and playful examples that illustrate contemporary colour combinations.
This structure ensures that the reader is introduced to the subject of colour in an instructive but also in an associative and experimental manner.
With its current examples of striking creative work and insightful analysis Kelvin offers both u
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