However, the upside of that approach is that everything I encountered in the book was new and fascinating!Įssentially though, I think to wonder what I might specifically learn is to overthink it. I know colour rules where accessibility and standard best practice are concerned, but I’m no artist or designer – I wondered what I might learn from this book that I could apply to my work. This experience already is enough to recommend it as an excellent book to own, it’s a pleasure to explore and learn from every page.įrom my own perspective, as a data visualisation exponent, this is new theory to me, and a little outside of my comfort zone. Right from the start, it’s important to state that it is full of high quality colour plates, every one illustrating an important experiment, illusion or lesson around colour theory. This is a review of the seminal book “Interaction of Color” by Josef Albers – in particular the 50th Anniversary Edition (below).
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