This blog is dedicated to Jesse and Tori's Wednesday evening section of Principles of Experience Design at the Ontario College of Art and Design, Winter 2008.
I very much appreciate you interest in colour. Check out "The Art of Colour" by Johannes Itten from the library. Could your propositions (your ball, for example) allow students to explore the same patterns that Itten would make his students paint? It's my feeling that colour theory is poorly taught in design, and any tool that could quickly and compellingly illustrate the impact of different colour/hue combinations would have great appeal to the OCAD audience.
Your third proposition is reminiscent of a classic Itten exercise, done in reverse. He deconstructs the colour scheme in famous works of art. Could you create a set of cards that cleverly demonstrates this deconstruction, and/or make people guess the piece bring deconstructed? Pixelization of images (via Image Size) in Photoshop would be a quick way to execute this.
A related contemporary deconstruction by Todd Falkowsky, another OCAD instructor, was recently featured in The Walrus.
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Hi Kristen:
I very much appreciate you interest in colour. Check out "The Art of Colour" by Johannes Itten from the library. Could your propositions (your ball, for example) allow students to explore the same patterns that Itten would make his students paint? It's my feeling that colour theory is poorly taught in design, and any tool that could quickly and compellingly illustrate the impact of different colour/hue combinations would have great appeal to the OCAD audience.
Your third proposition is reminiscent of a classic Itten exercise, done in reverse. He deconstructs the colour scheme in famous works of art. Could you create a set of cards that cleverly demonstrates this deconstruction, and/or make people guess the piece bring deconstructed? Pixelization of images (via Image Size) in Photoshop would be a quick way to execute this.
A related contemporary deconstruction by Todd Falkowsky, another OCAD instructor, was recently featured in The Walrus.
http://www.walrusmagazine.com/articles/2008.02-detail-todd-falkowsky-revealing-urban-colours/1/1/take
Could your interest in colour take up Todd's appeal to personal narratives of place?
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