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Colour Image Scale [Paperback]

Shigenobu Kobayashi (Author)
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Publication Date: 1 Mar 1992
Using and combining colors is now easy with the revolutionary new Color Image Scale developed by Japan's leading color psychologist, Shigenobu Kobayashi, the author of the best-selling A Book of Colors.
After three years of intensive research, Kobayashi and his team at the Nippon Color & Design Research Institute have matched 130 basic colors and over 1,000 color combinations to 180 key image words, allowing you the expression of any mood, lifestyle, or taste through the creative use of color combinations.
If you want to make an interior or an outfit "elegant," "romantic," or even "provocative," just look up -the word in the key image word index, and choose any one of the dozens of color combinations listed under the entry. Conversely, if you would like to know what mood certain colors or color combinations suggest, refer to the color index.
Used by thousands of major designers and manufacturers in Japan, the Color Image Scale is a unique color resource for both professionals and amateurs alike.

Product details

  • Paperback: 164 pages
  • Publisher: Kodansha International Ltd (1 Mar 1992)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 477001564X
  • ISBN-13: 978-4770015648
  • Product Dimensions: 17 x 12.2 x 1.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 975,134 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars a truely useful little book 14 Jan 2003
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I work in product development - creating new product ideas and convincing others to work on them. Part of the job is to be good at selling an idea. This little book has helped me to choose the right colour schemes for my presentations, to help suggest the right emotions/ mood for the product idea. It has been extremely useful in helping to get the message across.
It also helps non-designers to use colour effectivley, and to avoid ruining a promising idea with the wrong colours.
I love it - and it is endlessly fascinating.
Use it for anything where you want the right emotional response - presentations, product design, interiors, even for choosing what to wear!!!
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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic for web design 4 Oct 2000
By Dan Norton - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Paperback
This book provides an elaborate color theory that makes the color wheel look like stupid hippy frisbee. Colors are arranged in groups of three, and then grouped based on their overall feeling- it sounds preposterous, but you really will be attracted to certain regions more than others, and so will everyone else you show the book to.

The three color arrangements are particularly nice for Web page design, even though the CMYK nor RGB values are given. But this is forgivable, since this book was not intended for that purpose.

An excellent resource for anyone working with color, and a great tool for any web designer.

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars best guide to color in universe 10 Aug 2000
By Mariel Clemensen - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
Have you ever wondered what color to use with another? This guide book shows - in very easy terms - a range of possible combinations using one particular color and shade as a starting point. For anyone who cares about color, this book is a MUST! I wish the author would publish a more extensive guide. No other book matches this wonderful little guidebook.
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Great Book, Who stole my Blue? 26 Oct 2001
By Mark Wieczorek - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Paperback
I really like this book. The author created a standard color grid, red on the right, blue on the left, all the others in between, dark on the bottom, light on the top, except he used 3 color "patterns" rather than a single color in each box. Then he "inputted into our computer 180 image words that relate to the ways in which people percieve color, and also data on which words were associated with which colors." What his method is isn't expounded on

They linked the images to the words, and voila, you get sort of bubbly outline areas on the grid - these color combinations are elegant, these colors are fun, these colors are feminine or masculine, etc.

Since this book was first published in Japan in 1990, there are bound to be cultural discrepancies, and since this book is about the psychology of color, the 'conclusions' can be contested, though on the whole i think they're accurate.

My criticism stems from the fact that Blue in my book is missing. There's a page for "Red" and a page for "Yellow" and on, but no page for "Blue." There's a "Cerulean Blue" which is sort of turqoisy, and a "Light Blue" which looks like a darker Cerulean blue, and an "Ultramarine" which is closer to blue, but with a bit of violet in it. Who stole my blue?

A lot of the colors seem to have gone through a bad printing process as well, making me question whether or not I'm seeing the actual values. Ultramarine, for example, if you look closely (not that close, it's fairly obvious) is made up of lots of other colors. Am I supposed to hold it at arm's length to get an idea of what the color is?

Perhaps it was a bad printing.

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