This post discusses Josef Albers’ classic book ‘Interaction of Color,’ one of the most influential art and design texts of the 20thcentury.  Albers was a painter, designer and educator who is regarded as a pioneer of Modernism. “Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers” Josef Albers “In visual perception, a thing is never seen as it really is” Josef Albers Who was Josef Albers? Josef Albers (1888-1976) was a German-born artist, designer and educator. He firstly trained and worked as a primary school teacher before formally studying painting at the Royal Academy of Arts in Germany. He then taught at the revolutionary art school, the Bauhaus alongside renowned artists such as Paul Klee, Kadinsky and László Moholy-Nagy. Albers’ built his reputation as a both a renowned painter and object designer. When the Nazi’s forced the closure of the Bauhaus in 1933, Albers then migrated to America where he…