The Secret Lives of Color

BUY!! NO KIDDING!! ENGAGING AND FUN AND GAME CHANGER: I'm a little hard to get going into stories. I'm A.D.D. and I just need hooks. I didn't really expect this to be more than a need-to-read for professional upgrading. I especially struggle with dry stories, which this seemed to HAVE to be, right? A book on color. Come on. I expected this book to be at least a little helpful with understanding color and understanding color benefits basically all areas of life (in some way or another).But WOW. I am reading this book and I. Am. Engaged!! That sounds cheesy, but MAN is it filled with really *really* cool facts and somehow it's like reading a book of trivia that is also profoundly impacting my entire world of color understanding. It's not just helping a little; this book is re-framing color for me. CLAPS to the author!! WOW!!!!!!!!!!!! Thank you SO much! Just. I'm stunned. And so impressed. Thank you!

This is a delightfully crafted mini coffee-table book of the best kind. The book begins with a general introduction to the topic of color including the general physics of light, psychology and culture and materials. The rest of the book is divided into color types like "white" featuring related color names like "silver, ivory" and so forth. Each section is a quick, but literate discussion of how each color was made and has been used in history, including some of the less-savory implications. The quest for pretty colors can come with a steep price in terms of toxicity or wars over possessing the raw materials (but we are learning to be more thoughtful). This book knows that color also adds meaning to our lives - a world without flowers, rainbows or glass beads would be far less joyful.

I saw this on a friend’s coffee table, picked it up to take a look inside, and immediately ordered one for myself. I love color. I love history. And color history is fascinating! The book is of good quality, has beautiful images, and is soooo interesting! Highly recommend.

Book was damaged. Needed to be cushioned before placing in shipping box. It had been dropped hard enough to bend 3 of the corners and top and bottom of spine. So far, the book is very interesting. First damaged item I have had from Amazon. Undamaged, I would have rated it a 5.

even though there were images from customers amazon examples, i was still surprised that the colors reviewed were about a half inch wide along the edge of the pages- is not distracting.There was no mention of lampblack ( perhaps one can consider the ink page as lampblack).I really enjoy the history of these colors.Would be a great bedtime story for children -crayons are a lot ,but how the colors came to be chosen might be of interest.

My boss is an artist. I purchased this book for her for her birthday. She loved it. I'm not an artist and actually loved the pages I looked at. It is definitely worth the purchase. Very unique book.

Lo vengo queriendo desde hace mucho, si eres amante del diseño y buscas un libro que no sea el típico libro sobre el color este es el adecuado. Tiene la historia sobre más de 100 colores y algunas historias atrás de cada uno, es un libro muy entretenido. Recomendadisimo, no es grande pero si tiene pasta dura y es gordito

This book is a fascinating perspective on color... adds to one's pallet ofknowledge & paints an historical spectrum for study.Worth the purchase. A tidy little, well designed book.CEF