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Color for the Real World

Color for the Real World: Textbook and CD

Globalization and cultural diversity demand universally understood principles of color and design. The objective of this book is to explicate color theory in a visual language applicable to all design disciplines.

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Color Harmony

Alice I-fang Chu

Professor of Color and Design, Ryerson University

Alice Chu is a colour designer who specializes in colour pedagogy and colour/design trend forecast.

She has worked as design editor in New York City, Boston, Montreal and Toronto. She was the Chair of the Graphic Design Department, Dawson College of Montreal from 1974 to 1977, Board Director of the Canadian Society for Color from 1983 to 1987, Board Director of the Color Marketing Group International from 2000 to 2003, and has been a member of registered graphic designer of Canada since 1978.

As a professor of Color and Design at Ryerson University, she was named Ryerson’s Professor of the Year in 1989 and the Popular Profs of Ryerson by the Maclean magazine in 2006. She was the recipient of the CMG International Color Link Award, and was inducted in 1977 to the Who’s Who in Canadian Women. » Find out more. ...