Interaction of Color

Albers, the Bauhaus and Yale teacher, argued that color is the most relative medium in art: the same color reads differently depending on what surrounds it. His book is less a theory than a set of experiments — plates that make you watch one color become two, and two become one.

Digital designers get as much from it as painters. Once you have seen how context warps perception, you will never again argue about 'what color it really is' — you will ask what it does next to its neighbors.