Tuesday, March 2, 2010
Monday, March 1, 2010
Yellow Orange-the color of energy
Yellow-Orange is a vibrant color. It's a combination of orange and yellow. It denotes energy, warmth, and the sun. It is the color of flame and also represent brightness, glory, dignity and power. It is the color of ancient Chinese emperor’s clothes. Yellow-orange, a color of fall season, brings up images of harvest, autumn leaves, pumpkins, and fruit. It can conjure up thoughts of vitamin C and good health. It represents optimism, enlightenment, and happiness. It is also the color of sand, desert, make you feel hot and dry. It represents passion and desire. Yellow-orange can stimulates activity and appetite, encourages socialization and communication. It is the color of fearlessness and positiveness
Monday, February 15, 2010
Complementary Color Schemes and Split Complementary Color Schemes
It is a packaging design of Tea Forte. The complementary color scheme is: R+G+YG. It creates a great contrast to call attention, but doesn't dazzling our eyes at all.
Van Gogh's paintings are full of complementary colors. In this Self-portrait, he used split complementary color sets: G+YO+RO.
Henri Matisse's "The Dance". In this painting, Matisse used split color sheme: O+BG+BV. The high contrast of color creates a strong sense of motion.
Picasso's painting "Dora Maar" is an good example of using complementary color yellow and violet.
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Itten's color contrasts
source form www.worqx.com
Johannes Itten was one of the first people to define and identify strategies for successful color combinations. Through his research he devised seven methodologies for coordinating colors utilizing the hue's contrasting properties. These contrasts add other variations with respect to the intensity of the respective hues; i.e. contrasts may be obtained due to light, moderate, or dark value.
1. The contrast of saturation
2. The contrast of light and dark
3. The contrast of extension
4. The contrast of complements
5. Simultaneous contrast
6. The contrast of hue
7. The contrast of warm and cool
Special Color Wheels
Someone did an interesting research. He showed thousands of random colors to people on internet and asked what they would call them. Then he collected these color names to make a data. He printed each name in its color and positioned the name on a color wheel. The above picture contains about 1,300 colors and the names for them that people gave. I think it is interesting because it is an illustration of the linguistic space of colors. Normal color wheels are scientific and rational，but this one shows more about our perception toward color.
Sunday, February 7, 2010
Analogous Color in Nature
In Picture 1, the three analogous colors are R, RV and BV.
Picture 2, In this picture, the three analogous colors should be B, G, YG, plus one complementary color R.
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Monday, January 25, 2010
color & me
Color is always a kind of mystery to me.
Sometimes, those basic colors like red, yellow, blue, green, purple can give me a distinct psychological experience. But sometimes, the difference between two colors can be very subtle. You cannot tell whether it is red or orange. Color is a powerful tool which I always used but I haven't really known. I hope to observe, create and enjoy the brilliant colors in this class, at the same time, sharing my experiments with my classmates.
Monday, December 8, 2008
iphone case enables the blind to access touchscreens
http://www.core77.com/blog/object_culture/iphone_case_enables_the_blind_to_access_touchscreens_11982.asp
Posted by: hipstomp
Portugal-based designer Bruno Fosi has developed a prototype iPhone case that would enable the sight-impaired to use the device. The silicon case has debossed, tactile logos, icons and characters, yet is still thin enough for the screen to register touches. Used in conjunction with text-to-speech features, it opens up a world of possibilities for those without sight. Not to mention the blind could eke out some extra battery life by turning down the backlight.
Expandable Bookcase Design
http://www.core77.com/blog/object_culture/expandable_bookcase_design_12017.asp
Posted by: hipstomp
We're totally digging the new extendable REK bookcase, by Rotterdam-based designer Reinier de Jong.
REK is a bookcase that grows with your book collection. The more books, the bigger the bookcase. The zigzag shaped parts slide in and out providing as much space as needed. Regardless of the quantity of books REK will always be full.
Also with the different spaces that appear you can arrange your books according to their size.
The five-part bookcase is finished with white high-gloss laminate on the outside surfaces, and warm grey stain laminate on the inside. And this is no one-off concept that will never see the light of day--you can order one right here, if you've got 5,500 Euros.
Ironically, the only way I could afford one of these is if I were to sell all of my books. Man, if O. Henry was putting together a gift guide....
Drops in the ocean - and in the sky
From: http://www.doorsofperception.com/archives/art_perception/
Posted by John Thackara
Steve Messem (who led our sustainable tourism design camp at Dott 07) writes with news that his next installation - Drop - takes up residence beside Crummock Water in the Lake Distrrict, UK. You'll find his 7 metre (20 foot) reflective raindrop near Haus Point between Buttermere village and Lorton from 7am tomorrow morning (11 Sept). It will stay there - or so Steve hopes - until the end of Saturday.
This the second amazing droplet I've heard about today. Just before Steve's email arrived, I was reading about "cloud albedo enhancement." This is the proposal, first made in 1990 by a scientist called John Latham, that controlled global cooling - sufficient to balance global warming resulting from increasing atmospheric CO 2 concentrations - might be achieved by seeding low-level, extensive maritime clouds with seawater particles. The sprayed seawater droplets, Latham proposes, would "act as condensation nuclei, thereby activating new droplets and increasing cloud albedo". Latham reckons that spraying clouds with seawater on a large scale could help hold the Earth’s temperature constant for many decades.
The scheme is ecologically benign – the only raw materials being wind and sea water - and "if unforeseen adverse effects occurred the system could be immediately switched off, with the forcing returning to normal within a few days". Latham acknowledges that "questions and concerns would need to be satisfactorily examined before any justification would exist for the operational deployment of the technique" - but I reckon he can speed up that process by going into partnership with Steve Messem. If Latham's planet-wide aerosol spraying looked as gorgeous as Steve's Drop, surely none of us would complain.
I'm not being unserious here. I learned about Latham's proposed feat of "geo-engineering" from a book called Kyoto2: How to Manage the Global Greenhouse by Oliver Tickell. Kyoto2 is basically the blueprint for a new global climate treaty. Based on the latest climate science (summarised clearly in the book) a replacement to the existing Kyoto protocol must achieve a level of atmospheric CO2 below 350 ppm. Otherwise stated: if we are to stabilise greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent "dangerous anthropogenic interference in the climate system", the North will need to reduce its carbon impacts by 98 per cent.
Put baldly like that, most of us will feel like giving up on the whole enterprise. I know I do. The thing is, Kyoto2 describes a plausible path from here, to there in policy terms. What's missing is the aesthetic-cultural impetus that we'll also need to make that change happen at a political level.
That's where projects like Drop come in: 98 per cent less has got to feel like 98 per cent more.
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