Today is 3/14/15: Pi day of the century. Wherever you live, there are ways to celebrate this rare holiday. We’ve been celebrating in a most colorful way, with the award–winning, “magnificent“, “visionary“, “vivid“, and mind-blowing Interaction of Color app. We’ve been learning more about color – as we do every
As Albers weeks draws to a close, and we reflect on the legacy of this great educator (Josef Albers died 38 years ago today, on March 25th, 1976), we realized it was an opportune moment to consider the lasting effects of Albers’s teaching methodologies on the way color theory is
Our focus this week on all things Albers has allowed us to notice anew the numerous instances of Albers imagery right here in our offices in New Haven. The following slideshow takes you on a virtual tour of our Yale University Press offices through the Albersiana we have on our
It’s Albers week here at Yale University Press and today we have a contest for you. There exists amazing archival footage of Josef Albers in the classroom, and Albers describing his teaching methodologies; some of this is included among the video content in the Interaction of Color app. The following
Get the app for $7.99 this week! To celebrate Albers’s birthday, we are pleased to offer a temporary discounted price on the app – for the next week, the app will be downloadable from iTunes for a mere $7.99. Happy birthday to Josef Albers, who was born on March 19th,