Today I received a physical copy of our new book – Universal Principles of Color – which made a nice start to the week. My co-author, Maggie Maggio, and I have worked so hard on this over what must be a a couple of years now. Because of the time difference (she is based on the west coast of USA and I in UK) we had countless late-night and early-morning meetings. But finally here it is. It can be a frustrating experience at times working with publishers but overall I am really happy with the outcome.

The above image is from the watermarked digital edition that I received last week. It shows the 100 topics that are discussed in the book. I like the idea that they are grouped in themes or pathways (which I think was Maggie’s idea) because it will make it much easier for the reader to navigate the book. I don’t think the book is intended to be read from front to back in one go but rather to be ‘dipped in to’. But these pathways provide a route through the book according to the readers’ interest and we thought hard about the order of the topics in these pathways for it to make sense. In the actual book the topics appear in strict alphabetic order so you can really see the value of including these themes which are also colour-coded for ease.

I hope people enjoy the book and find it useful. Each topic is delivered through a double-page spread. The challenge that we had was to take topics that are potentially complex but deliver them in a very concise way without comprising accuracy. I think we did ok but you will all be the judge of that.

The book is available on pre-order from Amazon now or at other places. If you pre-order it at Amazon you get a discount. It also helps us if you pre-order the book because apparently it does good things to the algorithms which dictate how many people will see this pop up on their Amazon page. So please pre-order to help us out if you were thinking of buying it.