Albers’s most challenging principles are explained and clarified.Videos of scholars, designers, and Albers’s former students discussing the text and plates.Gain a deeper understanding through video commentaries Export an SVG or PDF of your plate to open and reuse in your favorite design software.Share your designs with classmates, instructors, and friends.Place color swatches into the framework of the plate easily change and refine color selections to customize your design.Move the 'pieces' of interactive plates to see how the same color can look different when shown on different grounds.Ĭreate, share, and save your own exercises.Use the magnifier to get a closer look at the scans of the original silk-screened plates.Inspired by Albers's teaching methodologies, each plate is designed to reproduce the experience of working with cut and colored paper.Easily zoom into plates and quickly link to the interactive plates.Get definitions of key terms with an embedded glossary specific to Albers’s teaching.Take notes, highlight text, add bookmarks, and share links to the text.Easily navigate between text, commentary, and 122 of the original edition’s plates.Please contact the library if you are having trouble accessing the site. If you are off campus, you will need to login to the CIA Library proxy before you can access the site. If you have an account at the A&AePortal, your access is the same on the Interaction of Color website. You must create an account on the Interaction of Color website with your CIA email address. Provides supplemental resources, including video interviews with leading contemporary designers and artists explaining how they use color in their professional practices.Features over two hours of video commentary, including archival video of Albers and interviews with experts explaining key principles.Allows students to create, save, and export their own version of interactive plates in.Presents 60 interactive plates that reproduce the experience of working with paper, a captivating feature inspired by Albers’s teaching methodologies.Includes 122 original color studies, many allowing users to move pieces to see the effects of the colors against different backgrounds.The site features full text and plate commentary, describing Albers’s renowned principles on how to see and understand color. The website incorporates interactive features that help students understand the book’s fundamental concepts, study the plates, and experiment with their own designs.

The Interaction of Color: Complete Digital Edition website oﬀers an entirely new way for users to experience Josef Albers’s original masterwork. Interaction of Color: Complete Digital Edition

Interaction of Color by Josef Albers