Rust - Color Assignment

Using Peter Piper's Palette Picker, I created three color schemes as explained by the same domain's color theory page. 

Create a monochromatic composition

   Create the illusion of overlapping/transparent hues 

Create a composition using one of Itten's contrasts: The Contrast of Warm and Cool

Katie - Color Assignment

Monochromatic

Overlapping (red over blue and green)

Itten

I'll have to come back to this tool when I want to pull together some palettes. It's definitely something I need to work on since color has not been my strong suit.

Andee's Color Assignment

Draft Instructional Poster

Marcia's Color Assignment

Monochromatic:

Overlapping:

Itten (as close as I could get, anyway):

I would love any feedback anyone has to offer.  Thinking ahead to my poster, I went back to my logo and ditched it and came up with a completely new design.  This still needs work on alignment and color, but I want to know if people like this and if it is worth the effort.  Also, I am using Inkscape and trying to figure out how to put in the colors posted on the JMU website for logos.  Thanks in advance.

Symbolism of Color

We have talked a lot about colors lately. By now everyone should have used peter pipers palette picker and taken a look at Ittens contrasts. These activities should have given everyone a chance to experiment with color mixing and matching, and finding colors that fit and blend together. These are important tools to have wehn creating our posters and other visual imagery.

Today, I want everyone to take a look at the following website which discusses the symbolism of different colors: http://www.incredibleart.org/lessons/middle/color2.htm. This can be a resource to use when deciding on colors to use for different projects. The shade of these colors and how they are arranged on the poster. When I was looking at the colors, I checked out purple  and yellow becasue those are JMU's colors to see what the represent. The first word for purple symbolizes royalty, which is what our mascot, Dukes, means, and the first two words for yellow signify joy and happiness. It is very evident to me that the founders of JMU choose purple and yellow purposefully.

My challenge for everyone is the following:

1. Think of of an organization, object, something else with distinct colors and see if their colors match or dont match their identity and explain why.

2. Take one of the categories on the second column and find or explain something or someone that has used colors accurately portray its meaning. (An example of this is how the recycling logo is green because the color green is used to symbol ecology)

What your brain sees...

This course covers what we see, and how we interpret what we see. Visual Thinking for Design really has us looking at how our eyes and brain work. I even got to use a brain graphic for my visual resume. Over the last few weeks it has been clear that we do not all agree on colors or pictures that we saw. Some of the color schemes/pictures I really liked, others did not…and vice versa. Some of us liked the brighter colors in logos, others of us liked more muted tones.

Each of us has different likes in pictures and colors. I’m sure each of us has different likes in pets, too. I have a dog, cat, parakeets, fish, and a mouse. Cats are my favorite! Mentioning this due to one of the links I am attaching below. I’m sure each of us has different favorite foods, too. I could eat Mexican food at least once every week. 

Each of these likes/dislikes comes from our brains. What makes us different is our brains. But what makes our brains different? Is it hereditary? Is it experience? Is it our education? It is our memories? I think it has to be a combination of these, and other, things. “Beyond its large size we still lack an account of what makes a human brain different. However, advances in comparative neuroanatomy, developmental biology, and genetics have radically changed our understanding of brain development” http://www.annualreviews.org/doi/full/10.1146/annurev.anthro.26.1.337.

A friend recently sent me this article: http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2014/02/04/memory-revisions-accuracy/5192089/. Not only is it short and interesting, I see how it can be applied to this class and what we are learning: How we view things can come from our memories. 

For instance, I really like regular black crickets, but I hate cave crickets (in case you don’t know what they are: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhaphidophoridae). But why? First of all, I think they look more like spiders, which I also hate, than crickets. And I just learned from the Wikipedia page that they are also referred to as “cricket spiders.” Second, it has to be because the very first apartment I lived in was infested with cave crickets. I was able to help the owner of the apartment find the source and the exterminator got rid of them, but I still lived with them for about a month. The owner had warned me about them when I moved in, but since I had no experience with them, I had no idea that they could literally jump 5 feet almost straight up, that they would cling to ceilings, and that I would find them on my bed. Obviously, whenever I see one these days (always outside, thankfully), I am reminded of the days I lived with them and kill them, if possible. 

That short story brings me to my point: Could our preferences for colors, pictures, design, and layout come from our past experiences? My high school colors were blue and gold. I still like those colors together! But I had a rather positive high school experience. If I had not, would I dislike those colors together? 

What are your thoughts?

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And just for fun, a lady’s cat went missing, but when she asked for help from a designer to create a poster, this is what happened: http://www.tickld.com/x/this-ladys-cat-went-missing-but-when-she-asked-for-helpthis-happened. Enjoy!

E. Anderson Color Assignment

Monochromatic

Overlapping

Itten's Contrast of Hues -Primaries

Color Assigment

For some reason, the transparent color scheme does not look like it did when I created in it in the color palette tool, but it shows the way it should on my computer.  I am very confused about this.

1.) Monochromatic

2.) Transparent

3.) Itten

Final logo - as approved by my team this afternoon