Chromorama

<b></b><b>Riccardo Falcinelli</b> is an award-winning graphic designer and best-selling author whose work has been highly acclaimed in Italy and around the world. He teaches at the ISIA Faculty of Design in Rome. <b>Completely fascinating . . . I had no idea I knew so little about colour <i>Chromorama</i> explodes the myths and fills in the blanks. A wonderful book</b>. <b>Fascinating. A mine of ideas and questions suppositions and facts.</b> Although Keats mourned the rainbow's unmaking Falcinelli in drawing his myriad-hued references together weaves a different magic into its arc <b>Brilliant.<i> Chromorama</i> looks at the history of colour in an accessible innovative and very human way </b> <b>Fresh and exciting like an unopened packet of coloured pencils. </b>Countless thought-provoking facts to ponder over beautifully written. <b>Falcinelli made me see the world in a new light</b> <b>A fascinating montage history of the perception money and technology behind colour running across the spectrum all the way from dragon's blood to E120 </b> <b>A book that not only makes the world brighter and more complex but which sharpens our sense of how that world might look differently and might be made differently</b>. Falcinelli has a luminous appreciation for human creativity and a passionate and quietly radical sense of the richness of experience possible outside of modern mass-production. <b><i>Chromorama</i> is a luxurious and immersive work </b> <b>One of the best books on colour I've read.</b> A layered tapestry of stories insights and ideas each beautifully and clearly written. I expected to read about things I already knew about but it kept surprising me in its twists and turns. <b>For anyone interested in colour it's a must.</b> <b>This book is a wonderful celebration of the impact of colour on our lives</b> and a reminder that so much of the world we take for granted has had the thoughtful eye of a designer behind it <b>Dazzlingly beautiful. . . A covetable book perfectly designed filled with enchanting images and stories.</b> Falcinelli answers an essential question: what are books for? To remind us that nothing is fixed. Tastes rules prohibitions. . . everything changes <b>One of the most important graphic designers in Italy Falcinelli takes us on a journey to discover the meaning of colour.</b> With four hundred images featuring comics and architecture movies and everyday objects he tells the story of why we understand colour the way we do A book that you can hear and taste read and savour. <b>Ranging widely across ideas and images it follows in the footsteps of Roland Barthes</b> <p><b>The Italian colour bible: a gorgeously illustrated exploration of colour and the modern gaze from an award-winning designer<br><br>'Fresh and exciting like an unopened packet of coloured pencils. Countless thought-provoking facts to ponder over beautifully written' Coralie Bickford-Smith author of <i>The Fox and the Star</i></b><br><br><i>Why are pencils yellow and white goods white? Why is black the colour of mourning? What connects Queen Victoria's mauve gown and Michelle Obama's yellow dress?</i><br><br> In <i>Chromorama</i> acclaimed graphic designer Riccardo Falcinelli delves deep into the history of colour to show how it has shaped the modern gaze. With over four hundred illustrations throughout and with examples ranging widely across art and culture - from the novels of Gustave Flaubert to The Simpsons from Byzantine jewellery to misshapen fruit from Mondrian to Hitchcock's thrillers - Falcinelli traces the evolution of our long relationship with colour and how first the industrial revolution and then the dawn of the internet age changed it forever.<br><br> Beautifully designed deeply researched and written with warmth and wit <i>Chromoroma</i> is an engrossing account of shade and light of tone and hue of dyes pigments and pixels. It is the story of why we now see the world the way we do.</p> <p><b>The Italian colour bible: a gorgeously illustrated exploration of colour and the modern gaze from an award-winning designer<br><br>'Fresh and exciting like an unopened packet of coloured pencils. Countless thought-provoking facts to ponder over beautifully written' Coralie Bickford-Smith author of <i>The Fox and the Star</i></b><br><br><i>Why are pencils yellow and white goods white? Why is black the colour of mourning? What connects Queen Victoria's mauve gown and Michelle Obama's yellow dress?</i><br><br> In <i>Chromorama</i> acclaimed graphic designer Riccardo Falcinelli delves deep into the history of colour to show how it has shaped the modern gaze. With over four hundred illustrations throughout and with examples ranging widely across art and culture - from the novels of Gustave Flaubert to The Simpsons from Byzantine jewellery to misshapen fruit from Mondrian to Hitchcock's thrillers - Falcinelli traces the evolution of our long relationship with colour and how first the industrial revolution and then the dawn of the internet age changed it forever.<br><br> Beautifully designed deeply researched and written with warmth and wit <i>Chromoroma</i> is an engrossing account of shade and light of tone and hue of dyes pigments and pixels. It is the story of why we now see the world the way we do.</p>