For example, despite appearances, the rectangles on these final yellow and blue covers are stamped with the same gray foil. In the introduction to this book Albers writes, “color deceives continually.” It was remarkable to see the many “deceptions” I discovered within these limitations. My working palette was limited to about thirty colors of Assuan and Cialiux cloth and the explorations confined to tiny pieces clipped from swatch books. Using Albers’s approach, I created the new covers through experimentation with materials available for the bookbinding process: foil stamping on cloth or cloth inset into cloth. Color Explosion - RU Artists search for the perfect color match that will meet original. He encouraged the use of cutouts from magazines, wallpaper, paint samples, wrapping and bag papers, and waste strips from printers and bookbinders. RU Workshop: Josef Albers Interaction of Color led by Fritz Horstman.

Albers preferred this to paint because the color was available instantly and not subject to the variations of paint. Interaction of Color ( public library) is an essential piece of visual literacy, exploring such fascinating subjects and phenomena as color recollection and visual memory, the relativity of color, transparence and space-illusion, temperature and humidity in color, and the afterimage effect.

Albers and his students used colored paper sets that contained hundreds of colors. Originally published by Yale University Press in 1963 as a limited silkscreen edition with 150 color plates, Interaction of Color first appeared in paperback in 1971, featuring ten color studies chosen by Albers, and has remained in print ever since. However, the publisher wanted the covers to be a contemporary and enticing new addition. This two-volume set replicates the 1963 original Interaction of Color. The Interaction of Color mobile app for iPad is packed with elegant and innovative features that help you understand the book’s ideas, view the plates, experiment, and create and share your own designs. Yale University Press | The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation

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