Pattern and Palette Sourcebook 2: A Complete Guide to Choosing the Perfect Color and Pattern in Design | 
|  | | | Title: | Pattern and Palette Sourcebook 2: A Complete Guide to Choosing the Perfect Color and Pattern in Design | | Author: | Heidi Arrizabalaga | | Publisher: | Rockport Publishers | | Type: | Book / Paperback | | Publication Date: | 01 February, 2007 | | ISBN / ISBN-13: | 1592533175 / 9781592533176 | | List Price: | $30.00 | | You Save: | $10.20 | | Amazon Price: | $19.80 | |
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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.
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Customer Reviews:
• Why Not 5 Stars???? 24 March, 2008
I still cannot understand why this book has so poor rating.... hm?!
I am a graphic designer and I bought this (and the earliest version) in Germany at a trade show.
Me being a designer, NEVER expected the book (the CD) to have the patterns in vector as I read inside the book that the patterns are protected, they are NOT royalty free... (besides, being a designer I want to create my own designs! So I went on and like someone said, yes, the CD is not quite that good (same thing as in the earliest version).... I looked at this book as a color combination inspirational book AND I LOVE IT!!! (THEM BOTH)...
If you see this book as a color palette reference and are a designer, artist, illustrator, YOU WILL LOVE IT!
I know I did and I am very strict as what books I cherish.
I based some of my designs on some of the color combos Heidi suggests and was AMAZED by the result! I had a friend (a Trend Forecaster expert) check my own patterns and the color applications and she was blown away!
Do not pay attention to the 2-3 stars if you are looking for a book that can color inspire you.... THIS IS IT!
- Reviewed by customer ID: AXEW8CE5AW6RA
• Not Terribly Useful... 22 October, 2007
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.
- Reviewed by customer ID: A2DQNDTIX4UGX1
• Very Neat, But Not Very Well Designed... 11 February, 2008
I love the idea of this book very much. You get a palette group from which smaller palettes are made, and then patterns in which that smaller palette is used. It's a great inspiration tool, one I will probably use a fair bit. There are many colors in the book that I just love, and many palettes that were beautiful.
However, the book and, more specifically, the CD with it could have been better designed. I would have liked to see a better use of the patterns. The patterns didn't have a range of colors applied to them, but rather used the same number of colors. It would have been nicer and more useful to see two colors used here, three here, and four here, rather than just two here and all five or six here. I also would have liked to see the RGB values presented with the colors (or even just listed at the back of the book). As a digital artist, I use the RGB values far more than I do the CMYK values.
The CD was also poorly designed. The tool itself is a brilliant idea- getting to play around with the colors in the patterns yourself- but since it uses RBG to select colors and the book has only CMYK values, I have to get an extra tool to convert the CMYK values to RBG values to even use the palettes presented in the books. There's also no indication of what color you've selected other than the RGB values in the boxes, and that's probably helpful only to a very select few. The last issue I had was that some of the lines in the patterns were extremely small or thin, and since you're expected to click the part of the image where you want to change the color, this presented an issue.
I'm going to keep the book and enjoy it, but, honestly, if I had known what I do about it before I bought it, I probably would have skipped buying it. There are books that do the same things as this one does, but that have done it better.
- Reviewed by customer ID: A3RC5L8E84N09H
• Thoughtful Honesty 08 February, 2008
Book arrived safely, quickly, and in excellent condition! Thanks so much!
Why do I call this review thoughtful honesty? Because the book is the way it was promised, intact and like new. Think about it...
- Reviewed by customer ID: A31V6NLRDB4927
• Buy Any Of The Petite Pattern Book Series Over This Book. 15 April, 2008
It doesn't show enough of the patterns, the cd is useless. I'm actually quite mad I bought it. I have limited space for my books and most of which I use all the time.
- Reviewed by customer ID: A263AEK6B8ZOOF
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