about | Color Cop Why Facebook is blue: The science of colors in marketing 33.5K Flares Filament.io 33.5K Flares × Why is Facebook blue? According to The New Yorker, the reason is simple. “Blue is the richest color for me; I can see all of blue.” Not highly scientific right? After all, the visual sense is the strongest developed one in most human beings. So how do colors really affect us and what is the science of colors in marketing really? First: Can you recognize the online brands just based on color? Before we dive into the research, here are some awesome experiments that show you how powerful color alone really is. Example 1 (easy): Example 2 (easy): Example 3 (medium): Example 4 (hard): These awesome examples from Youtube designer Marc Hemeon, I think show the real power of colors more than any study could. How many were you able to guess? Which colors trigger which feeling for us? Being completely conscious about what color triggers us to think in which way isn’t always obvious. Black: Green: Blue: How to improve your marketing with better use of colors:
Worlds Biggest PAC-MAN Lunar phases The phase and libration of the Moon for 2013 at hourly intervals, with music, titles and supplemental graphics. Animation of the Moon as it cycles through its phases, as seen from the Northern Hemisphere. The apparent wobbling of the Moon is known as libration. The apparent change in size is due to the eccentricity of the lunar orbit. The principal lunar phases are new moon, first quarter moon, full moon and last quarter moon. Names of lunar phases[edit] Phases of the Moon, as seen looking southward from the Northern Hemisphere. In Western culture, the phases of the Moon have been given the following names, in sequential order: A crescent moon above Earth's horizon is featured in this image photographed by an Expedition 24 crew member. When the Sun and Moon are aligned on the same side of the Earth the Moon is "new", and the side of the Moon visible from Earth is not illuminated by the Sun. Crescent Moon taken by MPG/ESO 2.2-meter telescope at La Silla. The Calendar[edit] See also[edit]
How to Draw the Head From Any Angle The Basic Forms To draw the head from any angle you must first understand its basic structure. Look past all the distracting details and visualize the underlying forms. This ability to simplify can be applied to the features of the face, but when starting the drawing you could look even further. Ignore even the features and simplify to the most basic form of the head. I use a method taught by Andrew Loomis in his book, “Drawing the Head & Hands”. The head deconstructed into its basic forms, is a sphere as the cranium and a block as the jaw and cheek bones. A Sphere as the Cranium The sides of the head are flat, so we can slice off a piece from both sides of the ball. A Block as the Jaw and Cheek Bones Attach the shape of the jaw. Constructing From Any Angle Step 1 – Determine the angle of the ball The angle of the head is established at the very beginning of the drawing with the ball. X Axis - The up and down tilt is established by the angles of the horizontal and vertical lines in the oval.
How To Use Color To Enhance Your Designs People are physically, psychologically, and socially influenced by color. Color has been found to have connections to health and it can help set the mood through which your designs are seen. Color communicates meaning and so we need to be conscious of what meaning we’re conveying when we choose to use one color over another. Color is a tool in the designer’s toolbox much the same as a grid or whitespace and it’s important to understand how to use that tool. Last week we talked about the color theory and how we could represent color and choose different color schemes. Color Meaning The first and perhaps most important thing to understand about the meaning of color is that there is no substantive evidence that support a universal system of color meaning. Even within a single culture individual differences will exist. The above means that it’s important to understand who your target audience is and how your audience attaches meaning to color. Red: is the color of fire and blood. Summary
Web Help: Color Palette Generator I use photoshop’s eyedropper tool to pull color profiles from images, but I know that not everyone has photoshop…and even if you do, you might just fall in love with this Color Palette Generator (found via Nicole Tattersall) because it will do all the work for you. Simply insert the direct image link and presto-change-o before your eyes will appear a lovely little color palette for you to use it whatever inspiring way you’d like. Have fun! Here’s how it works: Open image page (images must be hosted online (such as flickr, blogs, etc.) for this program to work)Right-click the imageSelect “View Image”Select and copy the URL at the top of the screen (this should look like a link that ends with .jpg)Copy and paste this link into the proper section on the Color Palette Generator site and click the “Color-palette-ify” button.Ta-daa! Note: If you are using images on flickr or another site they may be copyright protected and therefore will not show up when you follow the steps above. xox Ez
Xoïl Tattoos Xoïl is a tattooer at Needles Side Tattoo in Thonon-les-Bains, France. > facebook Catalogue of Human Features by Majnouna on deviantART How To Steal Like An Artist by Austin Kleon Wednesday, March 30th, 2011 Buy the book: Amazon | B&N | More… Here’s what a few folks have said about it: “Brilliant and real and true.” Read an excerpt below… Tags: steal like an artist What Color is this? in 9 languages I've always wanted to re-do some of the scientific studies of the past, like the World Color Survey. While I don't have plane tickets or time to travel the world, I do have access to CrowdFlower's 4 million contributors to re-test hypotheses about the universality of color-naming. Four years ago, we showed English language speakers random colors and asked for the color names. The color-wheel above (thanks D3 and Dawn) contains 4,000 colors (we collected many more, but didn't want to crash everyone's browsers). On the whole, it looks like countries have extremely similar conceptions of color. What do you see in the data? And stay tuned for more blog posts on when big crowd meets old science. The CrowdFlower task seen by contributors in the U.S., France, Germany, and China: