The Uplifting Impact of the Colour Blue
2023-04-29
Colour Blue has always been my favourite colour. I am in good company as blue is among the most well-likedRead More →
Colour Theory Terms You Need to Know
2023-04-28
As a web designer, my aim in studying colours is to acquire the knowledge that will enable me to use and combine them to support the purposes of the website I am building. I may use understated, muted colours for quiet and subtle sites (Corporate Website).Read More →
YInMn blue – the new blue tone colour (repost)
2023-04-12
I am not a natural when it comes to being able to distinguish between different shades of the same colour. It has now just become more difficult to differentiate a new shade of blue has hit a market called YinMn. Researchers named the pigment YnMn after its three elements: Yittrium (Y), Indium (In) and Manganese (Mn).Read More →
Jules Otiliski’s paintings of the 1960s – All About Colour
2023-04-07
Warm, soft, luxuriant reds, mauves, saffron’s pinks, greens, and blues emanate in vaporous waves from each canvas of Jules Olitski’s paintings. He is well-known for his unwavering dedication to saturating his canvases with colour that is distinguished by the spray, the medium, and his use of an inclined foreshortened angle of vision, which rediscovers and extends a method of creating space pioneered by Claude Monet in the 1880s. Through the use of color, Olitski creates illusions of obliqueness.Read More →
Johannes Itten (1888 – 1967) Swiss designer colour theorist
2023-03-06
Itten was a founding member of the Weimar Bauhaus, along with German-American painter Lyonel Feininger and German sculptor Gerhard Marcks, under the guidance of German architect Walter Gropius. TELL ME MORERead More →
Colour – its impact on our emotions
2022-07-16
It is strongly recognised that colours have a very strong influence on our moods and emotions. As a designer, I want to influence certain physical sensations by introducing particular colours into my projects.Read More →
Shinjuku at night – Colour Palette
2021-11-19
After a ten days holiday in Tokyo which ended up a visual feast. I took hundreds of photos with my iPhone the colour within this is vivid and I was interested what type of colour palette I was able to extract from it. I call it Shinjuku.Read More →
Colour red – Cartier advertisement
2021-11-16
The colour red symbolises confidence and power.Read More →
Josef Albers (1888 – 1976) – German painter, designer, theoretician, and teacher
2021-11-07
Josef Albers believed Art, he felt, is seeing, and he believed that his contemporaries had not done a good job of this.Read More →
Albers: Interaction of Color | Design Masterwork
2021-09-24
Albers with “Interactions of Color,” made it his life work to translate the knowledge gained from existing theories and the results from his personal research into a practical course on the action and interaction of colour.Read More →
Victorian-Era Color Theory Manual Reissued for the First Time in 115 Years
2021-09-20
Long before people were creating color palettes from beloved films or matching food to their Pantone colors , Emily Noyes Vanderpoel was revolutionizing color theory. The Victorian collector, artist, and scholar published Color Problems: A Practical Manual for the Lay Student of Color in 1901 as a breakthrough manual for examining color .Read More →
Color Theory: A Critical Introduction Kindle Edition
2021-08-31
Color Theory: A Critical Introduction by Aaron Fine This book analyses essential critical ideas and provides practical direction on theRead More →