Fabio, Paddy and Alan

Colour is a popular method of attraction not only in the design and advertising business, colour is used as entertainment in the entertainment industry, from scantily dressed girls to lighting.

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Vivid piece of art!

This is a striking piece of artwork to me because having done a lot of flyers i appreciate how hard it can be to achieve such rich colours especially when it comes to print maintaining them in this way i find next to imposible! 

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Green peaces new campaign stages a large amount of its artwork in this layout, its based on the concept of a birds eye view of the countryside, its very pleasing to look at and surely green is a colour i will have to look at far more.

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i'm not a massive fan of shoes or fashion itself and i think these would look bloody awful on most girls but theres something very striking about them, the crisp bold stark colours maybe?

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Interesting use of both colour and typography, stemmed from the idea that your brain fills in the gaps, in my opinion it makes a nice static print, by covering up all but one line it becomes much harder to understand and according to the artist, adding one more line of type makes the piece much less comprehendible. 

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A website i stumbled across is hex day where it encourages you to chose a colour each day the below quoted explanation explains.

Jon Sykes: Hexday is "a social experiment in color picks" I guess that's what I'd say. It's hard to say really. It's evolving. Originally it was probably more of a test web app. I was just starting to use CakePHP (which is awesome by the way) for my personal project web apps, and I came up with an idea that if you allowed people to pick 1 color and only 1 color every day, what would they pick. So I built a web app around the idea. 

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Wearing red makes you win sport!

Man utd seem to have a fairly strong track record with the colour as do arsenal as do china iin the olympics, 51 golds! the top 10 overall medal winning countries have the colour red in their natural colours, a beautiful accident or is their a trend?

Split brain...obviously!

apparently there are two sides to the brain, color and visual elements activate the right side of the brain, your emotions, and the printed words effect the left side of the brain your logic. Hence typography and colour being the fundamentals behind good design and hence when you try to read these piece above its rather confusing!! It is something i am interested in but this is a little two psychological for me, i am interested by spurring a reaction like most design should but i do not want to look to deeply into it.

Sony tv add

Colour is the main selling point for the sony bravia, a series of very clever and colourful adds where created, despite the selling point and subject being colour the advert reflects very well an idea of fun quality and attention to detail and more obviously imaculate execution, all things one might look for when buying a tv.

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ipod colours

Old Colors

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New Colors

IPOD's gone all grown up is it that they feel they should now be targetting a new market, getting the ever reluctant older generation into technlogy or is it simply that they feel these are better colours and their original buyers will replace there old items. Why isn't there a bright blue mac book pro, personally i prefer the older colours! I always feel the smaller the item the brighter the colour it should be purely for the practical purpose of not loosing it!

Viral advertising

I became aware of the stone phone. Everyones favorite phone it could perform most house hold chores and would be everyones must have item. Funnily enough the producers of this phone were nothing to do with phones at all, they are a recruitment company however you can guaranty they would have got millions o hits from it. I can't help but feel it may not be the best idea though because the traffic they would pull into their website would not necessarily be their target audience. Surely a different item or service would be more appropriate. Interestingly was the colour and shape they chose to look at. This they believed would be the best colour ever.... and the best shape ever... Is it?

Exhibition visit

At the moment i am taking a particular interest in colour so i decided to look at Banksy exhibition. Not only is he notorious for his black and white stencils, which are evidently very powerful despite there lack of colour, an obvious argument against a proposed dissertation title, but he is also very clever how he does use colour . In this exhibition Banksy did use colour in a very clever way often jucstaposing his choice of media, making the compositions more vibrant exciting and attractive. These were often contemporary industry colours such as Easy-Jets orange amongst others.

Exhibition visit

This is the booklet form an exhibition i went to. Despite not being able to rotate this it is clearly the booklet from the Tate's colour chart exhibition. A useful insight into the unprecedented role of colour in graphic design, fashion design and interior design. The exhibition looked at the moment when artist began to perceive colour as a ready made rather than as an expression of their creativity. The exhibition demonstrated well how colour is used sometimes in a very lazy way as a short cut more or less. It was an interesting exhibition and i took away from it this obvious lazy use of colour and how if you choose to deconstruct many pieces of art and design, the true irrelevance becomes apparent.