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Title: Colors for Your Every Mood: Discover Your True Decorating Colors by Leatrice Eiseman ISBN: 1-892123-38-X Publisher: Capital Books Inc Pub. Date: September, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.57 (21 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: The color was off
Comment: I was a bit dissappointed in this book, for two main reasons and several minor ones.
As a usability professional, I had bought it for the psychophysical effects of color on humans. This was my mistake, it does not advertise itself for this but was recommended to me for this purpose by another individual. It does have some of this, but inconsistantly. As I am interested in color both jobwise and for decorating, I read it regardless.
COLORS WERE OFF IN CHIPS FOR PREFERENCE CHECK: The major thing I find fault with, was the color chips it uses in its test for personal preference, were poor representatives of the colors it was meant to represent. Ironically, there is a disclaimer on the book that this may not be a true representation, but I would think a book about color preferences should go out of its way to be sure this is done well. All the color chips appeared to be washed out. As I do not like pastels, I feel this "colored" my impressions significantly. Also I feel some were quite a bit off either too much yellow or green etc.
INDIVIDUAL COLOR SUBTOPICS INCONSISTENT: The other major complaint I has was that under the specific color topics (there were 11), the subtopics were inconsistent. If I wanted to compare the physiological responses of Red to that of Brown for instance, I would be out of luck as the subtopics from one color to another were not consistent. Some had one type of information and another had others. I also found the information provided on each color to be more of just a memory dump of information on each color and not necessarily entirely pertinent or stuff I would really want to know.
COLOR COMBINATION EXAMPLES NOT NEAR DISCUSSIONS: Another thing I found particularly frustrating is that examples of color combinations showing various moods were interspersed in the book, and not near the discussion. It made is hard to compare and you were always turning pages.
COLOR MOOD DISCUSSIONS SHOWED NAMES INSTEAD OF COLORS: Besides having the examples not near the color mood discussions, there were names of colors used, that weren't even repeated in the examples or elsewhere in the book. I did not check all, but the several I did check this was the case. If nothing else even the RGB equivalents would have helped. Maybe these were Pantone names (it didn't indicate this), but unless you have a chart this would not help.
PUTTING THE COLOR MOOD EXAMPLES INTERSPERSED IN THE BOOK WAS CONFUSING TO THE AREA IT WAS PLOPPED IN THE MIDDLE OF: Even when reading, since you would read the first part on color moods before that of the individual colors, it was confusing when you ran into the color mood discussions while reading about a specific color that it was not pertinent to. On top of that in order to refer back to the color mood examples, you had to find their discussion area to find their page numbers instead of being able to refer just to a specific area to go back to. I used post it note tabs to keep track, but I shouldn't have to.
This book could've been so much more. It suffered poor execution in the colors and bad organization.
Rating: 5
Summary: Practical and easy to use info on color, a great book!
Comment: Lee is THE expert when it comes to color. I met her at a "colorful" lecture she gave for interior designers, and this book is as wonderful as she is. So often it is hard, especially for the novice, to figure out what we want our interior spaces to look like! This book is the right place to start. It will help you figure out what atmosphere or feeling you want your space to have by beginning with the color mood. The photos are great, and the color combinations are very well done and a provide a great springboard for the imagination. While the text is well done and very useful, you can get a lot accomplished by just looking at the pictures of the color combinations and the great photography.
This is an excellent book for beginners, designer-wanna-bes as well as professionals who deal with color and color-combinations for a living. Interior designers will find it helpful in that it is a great resource to show a client who can't verbalize what colors/moods they want you to create for them. I highly recommend this book!
Rating: 4
Summary: Color Me
Comment: This book explained things I never did know about colors and served a a tool when creating my web site. The author take you through the history and usage of colors. It is truely a worthty purchase.
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