Overview
Examining the underlying colour schemes of Europe, this text seeks to apply those characteristic colour combinations to one's personal and professional life. What emerges is a sense of what colour in Europe is all about, how it is used and how it can be exploited for pleasure or display. In his third book, Shigenobu Kobayashi seeks to discover the underlying colour schemes of Europe and to determine how to apply its characteristic colour combinations to one's personal and professional life. Kobayashi illuminates the underpinnings of colour in the everyday (home, garden, clothing, cafes) and the ornamental (public monuments and architecture). What emerges is a sense of what colour in Europe is all about, how it is used and how it can be exploited for pleasure and display. Kobayashi's research analyzes the success of styles considered quintessential European: a Parisian cafe, a London haberdashery and a Tuscan marketplace. His observations clarify the techniques involved in matching three or more colours, and his charts reveal the unseen links in various colour schemes.
Full Product Details
Author: Shigenobu Kobayashi
Publisher: Kodansha America, Inc
Imprint: Kodansha International Ltd
Dimensions:
Width: 0.10cm
, Height: 1.10cm
, Length: 0.10cm
Weight: 0.249kg
ISBN: 9784770023230
ISBN 10: 4770023235
Pages: 160
Publication Date: 01 February 1999
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Undergraduate
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Awaiting stock
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Author Information
SHIGENOBU KOBAYASHI graduated from Hiroshima College of Technology and received his master's degree from Waseda University for his work in the field of color psychology. In 1966, he founded the Nippon Color & Design Research Institute (NCD) and has since become a leader in the field of color psychology. Kobayashi is the author of over 30 books on color in the Japanese language, with total sales in excess of 400,000 copies. Colorist is his third English-language publication, following A Book of Colors (1967) and Color Image Scale (1991). Kobayashi is also an active participant of the International Color Association (AIC) and a lecturer at the graduate school of the Musashi Institute of Technology. THE NIPPON COLOR & DESIGN RESEARCH INSTUTUTE (NCD) acts as a color and design consultant firm to over 300 major Japanese corporations in fields as diverse as automobiles, home appliances, cosmetics, food, department stores, and home construction. Along with its theories on the psychology of color, the institute's Color Image Scale has been applied to numerous projects, and software based on the image scale has been developed.
