Interior Color By Design, Volume 2: A Design Tool for ... (ISBN 1592530729)

Interior Design Student:
For anyone who wants a basic, practical, concise, no nonsense understanding of color theory, this is the book for you. I found the examples in Chapter 3 most helpful when I designed rooms with specific color schemes. It defined each scheme type, breaking down the cool and warm tones in each and showed full pages of examples for each category. Color being such an integral component of our everyday lives, this book is definitely a necessary addition to a reference library for any color applications such as interior/exterior structure, gardening, and wardrobe design.

Color Me So-so:
This text spoke to me louder online, then when I actually received it in the mail. Although I bought this book as a gift for a young inspiring decorator, I did review it briefly before wrapping the holiday paper. First, my intial attraction to this product was its title and the layout/composition of the text cover. This medium-sized book (image online has a sense that it is larger, maybe because of its width, than it is) contains the foundation of color basics, and the online synopsis for "volume two" seemed more intereting than the other volumes in the series. I had hoped for a more generous showing of color photo examples, but the included photos do seem to highlight the text decriptions adequately. Second, I did not buy volume 1 or any additional volumes, but I have a sense that the publisher or author could have merged the others' content into one stronger text. With a quick read as my only resource, the book was lacking something: some excitement, some movement, some color! From my advantage point, the book delivers the basics of color and provides an adequate resource, but, in the future, I would not buy the accompanying volumes.