Editor: R. Herbert Spencer
Publisher: Lund Humphries
Publication: 1966, First Edition
Binding: Hardcover, section sewn
Pages: 280
Size: 215 x 285
Text: English
(Preface) 'COLOUR is the single most exciting, challenging and capricious characteristic of the graphic arts. The 1966 Penrose finds this an opportunity to bring together an even more dazzling array of illustrations than usual in support of a symposium that considers problems of colour reproduction, inks, control, photography, economics, matching, and motivation...'
Illustrated throughout with various printed tip-in samples.
Contents:
- Photography for print by Bob Brooks
- The lasting power of black-and-white by Eric de Maré
- Are consumer magazines a 'good buy'? by Ken Baynes
- Japan-growing power in print by E. A. Possnecke
- Printing for the arts by Bernhard Baer
- Need the craftsman feel frustrated? by W. B. Hislop
- The Asia Magazine by John Anstey
- 'Coloured hearing' and 'number-forms' by Barbara Duncum
- Colour as a code for connotative communication by Percy H. Tannenbaum
- The well-tempered colourchord by Benno Wissing
- Instrumental colour control by J. M. Adams
- Progress in new colour process inks by Frank Preucil
- Printing on a cast-coated surface by Bryan H. Smith
- The use of colour coding in business systems by Daphne Rands
- Electrostatic printing by Daniel Smith
- A true electrostatic printing process by Clyde Childress
- Typography in emergent Africa by Allen Hutt
- The art school dilemma by James Holland
- From basic to graphic design at Wuppertal by J. J. de L. Meyer
- Economics of colour printing and buying by Robert Austin
- Photo-solubilization by J. F. Strange
- Mechanics of adhesive binding by William O. Faxon and Robert E. Fogg
- Graphic design in the Soviet Union by V. Lyakhov
- Margins in the manuscript and printed book by F. W. Ratcliffe
- A realistic approach to colour reproduction by F. R. Clapper and T. C. Montrois
- Powderless etching of printing plates by Marvin C. Rogers
- Electrostatic colour-proofing process by Owen R. Cormack
- Advanced computer printing systems by John Duncan
Condition: Very Good. All titles are used and show shelf ware consistent with age. Light rubbing, marking, tanning to dust jacket. Light spotting to outer edges. Light tanning to outer edges of interior pages.
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