With Nature & Flower, People & Life, Culture & Art, Festival & Greeting and Abstract & Geometry being the five chapters, this volume is a blend of colorful, high-spirited patterns inspired by modern illustrations. The book shows a variety of cutting-edge patterns for surface design concentrating on line, shape and color palette. Each of the original patterns was reworked 6 times to get patterns with different tones or hues from light to dark, from cold to warm, from contrast to harmony, which allows the reader to compare effects through different color schemes, and to get the ideas that �colors convey tones�, �how they look like depends on what�s going on around them� and help you to select perfectly matched color combinations, and so on. Once you have made detailed researching, the book will give you confidence as well as skills with which to manipulate and transform colors and your designs. The attached DVD contains 960 vector patters for surface design as shown in the layout for any application you can think of, such as textiles, fashion, interior-finishing, wallpaper, tiles, ceramic, giftware, packaging, webpage, entire facades and any ornamental designs. Included in this DVD, all 960 of the vector patterns are the original work of illustrator in eps format. Each color was set on separate layer so that the color changing and other modifications could be done easily. This volume is essential for designers working in the graphic, fashion or life-style industry who wish to grasp full inspirations in a varied surface patterns. The book is definitely a fine choice. Colour throughout