Pattern and Palette Sourcebook 3: A Complete Guide to Choosing the Perfect Color and Pattern in Design

Pattern and Palette Sourcebook 3 is a desktop library of colors and patterns that addresses the professional’s real-world needs in working with harmonies and contrasts. Divided into 6 style sections, the book provides readers with 15 appropriate colors for each section, which are incorporated into 25 different patterns in each section, shown in 6 or 8 color variations each. This enables readers to see the dramatic effect colors have in design, and helps them to better understand how to use color effectively. This essential handbook demonstrates ways of creating patterns that are distinctly unique, yet hold together in a group.

Pattern + Palette Sourcebook 3 is a desktop library of colors and patterns that addresses the professional s real world needs in working with harmonies and contrasts. Divided into 6 style sections, the book provides readers with 15 appropriate colors for each section, which are incorporated into 25 different patterns in each section, shown in 6 or 8 color variations each. This enables readers to see the dramatic effect colors have in design, and helps them to better understand how to use color effectively. This essential handbook demonstrates ways of creating patterns that are distinctly unique, yet hold together in a group.

Gillian Blease (London) is an illustrator who studied Fine Art at university and worked as an artist for a number of years. Clients include The British Council, Random House Publishing and BBC Worldwide. She is a weekly contributor to the The Guardian newspaper. Blease has become well known for her pattern designs in recent years (regarding it as the perfect combination of discipline and freedom) and considers this strand in her career an antidote to the current affairs and contemporary issues she illustrates on a daily basis.

Gillian Blease is a freelance illustrator based in London, UK. She studied Fine Art at university and worked as an artist for a number of years. Clients include The British Council, Random House Publishing and BBC Worldwide. She is a weekly contributor to the The Guardian Newspaper. Blease has become well known for her pattern designs in recent years (regarding it as the perfect combination of discipline and freedom) and considers this strand in her career an antidote to the current affairs and contemporary issues she illustrates on a daily basis.