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Pattern and Palette Sourcebook 2: A Complete Guide to Choosing the Perfect Color and Pattern in Design Publisher: Rockport Publishers

Number Of Pages: 208

Publication Date: 2007-02-01

Sales Rank: 140676

ISBN / ASIN: 1592533175

EAN: 9781592533176

Binding: Paperback

Manufacturer: Rockport Publishers

Studio: Rockport Publishers

Average Rating: 2.5

A plethora of patterns and palettes! This hardworking reference book is the second volume in Rockport's Pattern and Palette series. Like the first, it is an invaluable tool for art directors, designers, and students working in the fashion, product, and graphic design fields, as well as anyone in the business of visual communication. With close to 1,000 new patterns, Pattern and Palette Sourcebook 2 is a desktop library of colors and patterns that address the professional's needs in working with harmonies and contrasts. Divided into six unique style sections, the book provides readers with fifteen appropriate colors for each section, which are then incorporated into twenty-five different patterns shown in six or eight color variations each. This enables readers to see the dramatic effect colors have in design and helps them understand how to use color effectively. The book also demonstrates ways of creating designs that are distinctly unique from one another yet hold together in a group. Also included is an interactive CD ROM that contains the patterns featured. Users can choose patterns, experiment with colors, and print out a sample of the patterns for reference.

Review: Not terribly useful... This book is full of interesting and attractive color combinations and patterns but for some bizarre reason does not include vector files for the patterns shown - sort of like a cookbook that has beautiful pictures and detailed descriptions but excludes an ingredient list. This is such a shocking oversight that I wonder how it made it into print. Rockport is a consistently excellent publisher but they really missed with this half-effort. Useful only as a color reference.

Review: The CD is a disappointment I suppose I should have read the description more carefully. The CD doesn't have the pattern files. It is only a program allowing you to adjust the colors. I was really looking forward to having Illustrator files of the patterns. On the up side the patterns do inspire and the palettes are wonderful.

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2.5 out of 5 by Book123