Three-Color Combinations Book Launch

How can colors create different atmospheres, moods, stimulations?

Join color expert Ruxandra Duru in conversation with graphic designer and educator Michael Dyer and artist and designer Ben Denzer to celebrate the occasion of Duru's new book Three-color combinations, an independently published translation of various relationships of color made by the author and beautifully laid out across 120 pages. We'll hear more about the book's making and Duru's color process.

Get the book! Meet the author. Talk color amongst friends. See you there.

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More about the book:

Three-color combinations reproduces 120 three-color combinations created by Ruxandra Duru between 2021 and 2024 using colored paper. These combinations reflect her ongoing desire to understand the beauty and atmosphere behind color interaction.

This book was several years in the making. Determining how to accurately translate the colors and their delicate relationships to offset printing was a long journey, ultimately carried out with the highly specialized team at Trifolio in Verona, Italy.

Designed by Michael Dyer of Remake, the proportions and cover spring from the original works' dimensions, with paper, typeface, and binding decisions made with the same care.

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Ruxandra Duru investigates color, atmosphere and beauty. Born in Romania, she spent her early and subsequent years living in Morocco, Canada and Spain. After designing book covers at Penguin Random House in Barcelona, she became increasingly interested in how colors can create different atmospheres. Now based in Brooklyn, she splits most of her time between her color work at Google and her independent practice. She is co-creator of colormoods.co, a stimulation-based palette generator. Her growing interest in color and materiality led her to start lending a few hours every week at the material library Sample House in Long Island City. Three-color combinations is her first book. @ruxandraduru

Michael Dyer is a graphic designer and educator based in New York where he established the studio Remake in 2004. Clients include the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Judd Foundation, the American Institute of Architects, David Zwirner, Gagosian, the United States Postal Service, the National Jazz Museum in Harlem, and numerous artists, architects, musicians, and authors. Michael has taught at the City College of New York and Parsons the New School for Design, and he is currently a professor at Pratt Institute’s Graduate Communications Design department. @remake_design

Ben Denzer is an artist, designer, and publisher. He studied Architecture and Visual Arts at Princeton and received an MFA in Graphic Design from RISD, where he made a thesis book physically larger than the RISD library. An Assistant Professor at Parsons, Ben has been an artist-in-residence at Mount Auburn Cemetery and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. Along with his studio practice, Ben is the editor of Process Pamphlets, designs and publishes books under the imprint Catalog Press, and is a frequent visual contributor to The New York Times. He recently installed a gravestone in Poughkeepsie Rural Cemetery that records his current age. It will be re-carved each year and removed upon his death. @bdenzer

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