Colour index is a wealth of colourful creativity at a glance, containing over 1100 colour combinations and formulas to help you solve design dilemmas and create more effective graphics. From progressive colours to natural tones, it aims to make choosing hues for any job easier.

Part travelogue, part narrative history, this work unlocks the history of the colours of the rainbow, and reveals how paints came to be invented, discovered, traded and used. This book looks at how green was carried by yaks along the silk road, and how an entire nation was founded on the colour purple.

An exploration of using colour in quiltmaking. The chapters discuss 14 colours, their characteristics, and the combinations that make them look good in a quilt design. Sample fabric arrangements are provided to make colour concepts easy to understand and there is a gallery of over 70 quilts.

Kimon Nicolaides' guide to learning to draw, consists of 64 exercises and is still used in art schools all over the world 70 years after his death.