Sean Adams is a founding partner of the award-winning California design firm AdamsNorioka and has been cited as one of the forty most important people shaping design internationally. A former AIGA national board member and President of AIGA Los Angeles, he teaches at Art Center College of Design and is a frequent lecturer and competition judge. Sean is the co-author of Logo Design Workbook, Color Design Workbook, and the series Masters Design. He lives and works in Los Angeles.

" [It] is the poet's answer to Pantone reference books. The fact that 'butter' is the first reference on the contents page gives a sense of what to expect: Sean Adam's approach, though functional, is also about a form of chromatic storytelling. [...] For a practising designer, the book will be both liberating and frustrating in equal measure."