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Fig. 9, Fig. 10 & Fig. 11 Examples ways of visualising colour-related data.MCCANDLESS. D., 2010. Information is beautiful. London : Collins. pp.32-33, 76 and 119, respectively

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Fig. 12 Cover of The Colour Dictionary.VENN, A., & VENN-ROSKY, J., 2010. The colour dictionary, the colourfulness of the words. Munich : Callwey Verlag.

Fig. 13 Example Spread from The Colour Dictionary.VENN, A., & VENN-ROSKY, J., 2010. The colour dictionary, the colourfulness of the words. Munich : Callwey Verlag, page unknown.

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Proposed Reading List

ALBERS, J., 2006. Interaction of colour. New Haven : Yale University Press.

ANDERSON FEISNER, E., 2006. Colour : how to use colour in art and design. London : Laurence King.

BATCHELOR, D. ed. 2008. Colour. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press.

BERLIN, B. & KAY, P., 1999. Basic colour terms : their universaility and evolution. Stanford : Center for the Study of

Language and Information.

GAGE, J., 1999. Colour and meaning: art, science and symbolism. London : Thames & Hudson.

GAGE, J., 1999. Colour and culture: practice and meaning from antiquity to abstraction. Berkeley : University of California

Press.

GIBSON, J., 1968. The senses considered as a perceptual system. London : George Allen & Unwin.

GOETHE, L. W., 2006. Theory of colours. Mineola, N.Y. : Dover.

HARDIN, C. L., 1988. Colour for philosophers. Indianapolis : Hackett Publishing Company.

HARDIN, C. L., 1997. Colour categories in thought and language. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press.

HARRIS, J., & KAMVAR, S., 2009. We Feel Fine: An Almanac of Human Emotion. New York : Scribner.

KLANTEN, R., ed. 2008. Data flow: visualising information in graphic design. Berlin : Gestalten.

KLANTEN, R., ed. 2010. Data flow 2 : visualising information in graphic design. Berlin : Gestalten.

MAERZ, A., & PAUL, R. 1953. A dictionary of colour. New York : Crowell.

MCCANDLESS. D., 2010. Information is beautiful. London : Collins.

PATERSON, I., 2004. A dictionary of colour : a lexicon of the language of colour. London : Thorogood.

RUNGE, P. O., 2010. Color sphere. New York : Princeton Architectural Press.

SCHOPENHAUER, A., 2010. On vision and colors. New York : Princeton Architectural Press.

TUFTE, E.R., 1990. Envisioning information. Cheshire, Conn. : Graphics Press.

TUFTE, E.R., 2001. The visual display of quantitative information. 2nd ed. Cheshire, Conn. : Graphics Press.

VENN, A., & VENN-ROSKY, J., 2010. The colour dictionary. the colourfulness of the words. Munich : Callwey Verlag.

WITTGENSTEIN, L., 1979. Remarks on colour. Oxford : Blackwell.

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Websites

http://www.visualcomplexity.com/vc/

http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/

http://flowingdata.com/

http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog

http://infosthetics.com/

http://wefeelfine.org/

http://www.emotionallyvague.com/

http://www.colourphon.co.uk/

http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/

http://www.pantone.com

http://www.colour-journal.org/

http://www.sdc.org.uk/

to discuss colour terms is, it seems, to talk about language more than it is to talk about colour.Batchelor (2000, pp.92)

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