Interviews with leading designers and artists explaining how they use color in their professional practices.This revolutionary new digital edition will transform the way color is taught and understood among teachers, students, designers, artists, and anyone interested in learning how to perceive and use color. Over two hours of video commentary, including archival video of Albers and interviews with experts explaining key principles, making even the most challenging problems easy to understand.

The ability to create, save, and export your final designs and palettes into any vector-based design software. A beautiful new palette tool, in which colors are manipulated like paper. Over 60 interactive plates that reproduce the experience of working with paper, a captivating feature inspired by Alberss teaching methodologies. Over 125 original color studies, including flaps and moving pieces. The app includes the following features: Full text and plate commentary, describing Alberss renowned principles on how to see and understand color. The classic text achieves its full, interactive potential in this stunning, award-winning application for iPad. To try the app, download the free version from the app store here: published in 1963, Josef Alberss Interaction of Color is one of the most influential books on color ever written. It is ideal for users wishing to gift the complete application or make volume purchases for educational or other uses. Note: most of the content is in the paidversion, but there is a sample chapter you can read and practice with in the free version.**Winner of 2013 Best Interactive Product in the Tablet/Handheld category, from Communication Arts**Winner of 2013 Spark Award for Best AppNOTE: Interaction of Color by Josef Albers (Complete Edition) is a complete, unlocked version with no in-app purchase necessary, and contains all of the content available in the free edition, in addition to the content available through the in-app purchase. To learn and practice the principles Albers developed, consider using the Interactions of Color app - a recent adaptation of the classic book that allows you to do the exercises faster than cut paper might. Even copying a few of Albers’ (or other minimalist painters’) works and directly translating them into an interface or a graphic composition could help practice the skill of applying color sets with purpose. It can attract attention, communicate hierarchy, or set a mood. Seeing a combination of colors advance or recede feels very close to science, and when used well, will help achieve specific goals. In addition to psychological and cultural things it can achieve, the optical effects of color are a powerful tool we can use in design.

When we use color, we must do so with purpose.