
Colour Design
Theories and Applications
Description
Key Features
- Provides a comprehensive review of the issues surrounding the use of color in textiles
- Discusses the application of color across a wide range of industries, supporting interdisciplinary knowledge and research
- Offers a revised, expanded, and updated look that reflects the rise of new technology and industry priorities
Readership
Textile dyers and colourists, academics interested in colour design and theory, and anyone who uses colour in their work
Table of Contents
Part 1 Colour vision and colour perception
1. What is colour?
2. Colour illusions and the human visual system
3. Variability in normal and defective colour vision
4. Colour description and communication
5. Colour naming for colour communication
6. Colour in food
7. Understanding colour perception and preference
8. Colour psychology: the emotional effects of colour perception
9. Colour in health and well-beingPart 2 Practical application of colour in design
10. Enhancing design using colour
11. Teaching colour in art and design
12. Understanding and forecasting colour trends in design
13. Colour trends and selection in fashion design
14. Colour in interior design
15. Colour in lighting
16. Lighting evolution - colour schemes for city public spaces
17. Light and colour in architectural design
18. International standards for colour
19. Colour specification and visual approval methods for textilesPart 3 Culture, history and development
20. Colour in culture: shifting values, understanding and functions
21. Colour for Architecture - Chromatophobia Chromatophylia and Gender
22. The history of colour theory in art, design and science
23. Cultural background influence on colors of virtual reality games and apps
24. The history of dyes and pigments: From natural dyes to high performing pigments
25. Colour Printing Techniques and New Developments in Colour Printing
26. Choosing effective colours for websites
27. Online colour representation of museum artefacts
28. Colour and sustainability
Product details
- No. of pages: 704
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Woodhead Publishing 2017
- Published: June 8, 2017
- Imprint: Woodhead Publishing
- Hardcover ISBN: 9780081012703
- eBook ISBN: 9780081018897