Our lecture with Amber on colour was a little more interactive this week, and included lots of cutting and messing around with paper, and we all came up with some quite interesting results, which again showed just how weird colour and our perceptions of it can be.
We experimented with placing our strips and squares of coloured paper on different neutral surfaces, the desk, the floor, and then on white and black paper.
We were also using dull and bright colours to see how each reacted on the different surfaces, and it was strange to see how the colour changed between each neutral. On the white surface, both colours seemed brighter because of the reflective spaces between the coloured paper, whilst the grey floor and desk seemed to absorb some of the colours.
We also looked at hierarchies within colour and how when you place one colour with another, it can either make the main colour pop, or it fades into the distance in comparison.
When I placed a brighter blue with the yellow card, the blue seemed to be coming forward more obviously than the yellow, whilst the dull papers also seemed to go duller when set against their brighter counterpart.
On black paper, the colours seemed more intense in real life, but as you can see in my (poor quality) images, the opposite happened through the lens, and both colours seemed to dull and basically came out looking nearly the same.
Behold the pictures!
At the end of the lecture we then went on to look at using the coloured paper in letterforms, and creating another hierarchy with them as a group, deciding whether the white or the brighter coloured papers deserved to be top, whilst the poor dull colours just sat the bottom looking rejected.
A window in Graphics then got covered in our technicolour typography, for the whole world to see, and to display our understanding of hierarchy within colour. It actually looked quite pretty when it was fully done, despite the sky beyond it being a nasty grey, or as I should call it, a neutral.
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