TY  - BOOK
AU  - St Clair, Kassia
TI  - The Secret Lives of Colour
SN  - 9780143131144
U1  - DSGN 
PY  - 2017///
CY  - .
PB  - Penguin Books
KW  - Colours
KW  - Design
KW  - Design Thinking
KW  - Graphic Design
N1  - The Secret Lives of Color tells the unusual stories of seventy-five fascinating shades, dyes, and hues. From blonde to ginger, the brown that changed the way battles were fought to the white that protected against the plague, Picasso’s blue period to the charcoal on the cave walls at Lascaux, acid yellow to kelly green, and from scarlet women to imperial purple, these surprising stories run like a bright thread throughout history. In this book, Kassia St. Clair has turned her lifelong obsession with colors and where they come from (whether Van Gogh’s chrome yellow sunflowers or punk’s fluorescent pink) into a unique study of human civilization. Across fashion and politics, art and war, the secret lives of color tell the vivid story of our culture.
ER  -