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Title: The Designer's Guide to Global Color Combinations: 750 Color Formulas in CMYK and RGB from Around the World by Leslie Cabarga ISBN: 1-58180-195-5 Publisher: How Design Books Pub. Date: 01 October, 2001 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.3 (10 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: An Indispensable, Entertaining Aid to All Artists
Comment: In this companion volume to THE DESIGNER'S GUIDE TO COLOR COMBINATIONS, author/editor Leslie Cabarga has outdone himself; yet, the book is so spectacularly beautiful, witty and fun, that the reader may not initially comprehend just what an colossally ambitious work it is. Cabarga spent 19 months traveling the globe collecting color swatches from an enormous "database" of human tribes, countries and civilizations; rarely fine art, mind you, but the work of craftsmen and women plying their native trades... Cabarga winnowed down his collection to a few which might most closely represent the "inner colors" of a particular nation or people...
It's worth buying this book alone just to study the deep, soulful, mysterious green the Pakistanis cherish. Those already familiar with Cabarga's democratic and catholic (and witty) color eye know that he sees as much charm in a cheap, tacky Chinese toy label as he does beauty in a shimmering, transcendant Tibetan religious painting. Mr. Cabarga has reached that deliciously opportune time in his life and career in which he both thoroughly knows the history of the Old-Old-Old School... yet he is as bleeding-edge Hip-- or Hipper-- than anyone reading the book. (One is tempted to draw a comparison to a Leonard Bernstein and his Young People's Concerts.) Mr. Cabarga is every bit the graphic art genius that R.Crumb is-- but with a more humane and loving pen-- and this book solidifies him as one of our national treasures. Artists of every stripe will benefit from the text and color swatches within this book.
Rating: 5
Summary: Keeps getting better
Comment: As a big fan of Leslie Cabarga's first book on color combinations, I found this one even better. Not only are the combinaitons vibrant and interesting as well as quite practical , the colors are now shown in both RGB and CMYK formulas. Those of us who work in the world of computer colors, especially the Internet where values are expressed as 6-digit hexadecimal numbers divided into RGB, this addition was quite helpful.
Cabarga's running commentary is clearly uncensored, and you can tell what the author has on his mind regarding the different examples of color combinaitons. The introduction to the book is a good cultural primer on colors from different places, most of which the author traveled to gather examples of interesting color combinaitons.
Like the first book, this one has many lessons not only in color combinations but in color arrangement. By juxtaposing the same color combinaitons in different arrangements, the reader can quickly see what appear to be different combinations but in fact are just different arrangements of the same combinations.
Finally, the best thing about this book is that it makes it easy for me to copy a color combination I like. I don't spend hours or even days agonizing over color combinations. I just go through ths book (or Cabarga's first one) and pick a combination I like and then I use it. It saves me time, it looks good, and I've got enough to do.
I can't imagine anyone looking for a good book on using color going wrong with this gem.
Rating: 5
Summary: Another great Cabarga Book!
Comment: If I had to sum this second "Color Combinations" book up in one word...indispensable! Both colour combinations books are very obviously works of a great love (and more than a little obsession) with colours from every aspect of the globe.If you've ever walked the aisles of Asian grocery stores and stared at the packageing...this one's for you. Cabaraga's writing style is very personal and humorous and a refreshing change from the dry "facts" of other color books. (A bit like Deke McClelland's Photoshop Bible really!)
As a designer who shares Cabarga's passion for all things design I highly recommend this book for anyone who has ever sat and tried to piece together a great colour combination for a client.
(my one, tiny, miniscule suggestion for the second edition would be to add combinations from England and Ireland...not just Scotland!)
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Title: The Designer's Guide to Color Combinations: 500+ Historic and Modern Color Formulas in Cmyk by Leslie Cabarga ISBN: 0891348573 Publisher: North Light Books Pub. Date: 01 March, 1999 List Price(USD): $27.99 |
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Title: Pantone Guide to Communicating with Color by Leatrice Eiseman ISBN: 0966638328 Publisher: North Light Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 2000 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
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Title: Color Index: Over 1100 Color Combinations, CMYK and RGB Formulas, for Print and Web Media by Jim Krause ISBN: 1581802366 Publisher: How Design Books Pub. Date: 01 March, 2002 List Price(USD): $23.99 |
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Title: Process Color Manual, 24,000 CMYK Combinations for Design, Prepress, and Printing by Michael Rogondino, Pat Rogondino, Michael ISBN: 0811827577 Publisher: Chronicle Books Pub. Date: 15 June, 2000 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: Designing Across Cultures by Ronnie Lipton ISBN: 1581801947 Publisher: How Design Books Pub. Date: 01 March, 2002 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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