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untitled City Gateway—Branding, web, print Color Wheel Pro: Color Meaning Red Red is the color of fire and blood, so it is associated with energy, war, danger, strength, power, determination as well as passion, desire, and love. Red is a very emotionally intense color. It enhances human metabolism, increases respiration rate, and raises blood pressure. It has very high visibility, which is why stop signs, stoplights, and fire equipment are usually painted red. What Is Color and How Do We Use Them? When we consider what is color, we invariably go back to the explanation first given by Sir Isaac Newton in 1666. Color is a part of the electromagnetic spectrum and has always been so. Color is immediate: it conveys emotions and, to many people, it helps make decisions.
Meaning of Colors in Color Psychology The meaning of colors can vary depending on culture and circumstances. Each color has many aspects to it but you can easily learn the language of color by understanding a few simple concepts which I will teach you here. Non-verbal Communication Color is a form of non verbal communication. It is not a static energy and its meaning can change from one day to the next with any individual - it all depends on what energy they are expressing at that point in time.
Color Theory for Designers, Part 1: The Meaning of Color About The Author Cameron Chapman is a professional Web and graphic designer with over 6 years of experience. She writes for a number of blogs and is the author of The Smashing … More about Cameron ↬ There are few things in design that are more subjective—or more important—than the use of color. A color that can evoke one reaction in one person may evoke the opposite reaction in another, due to culture, prior association, or even just personal preference. [Content update: August 2017]
Denise Gonzales Crisp: The decorational For Denise Gonzales Crisp, typography has the deepest tradition of the decorative within graphic design Denise Gonzales Crisp was in Mexico City when she was asked to design a poster (the Artcity 2005 poster El Otro Lado) for a Canadian arts festival with the theme of ‘trans’. She turned to the decorative expressions that surrounded her and, in order to convey the idea of being transient, focused on the details that she thought wouldn’t matter to anyone in Mexico – ‘things that were not placed, like trash, a thing on the ground, raw materials.’ Close by her hotel in that city was a bridge that had been decorated with carvings by transients and locals. Gonzales Crisp used photographs of the span to make the frame that sits within the poster. Running along the inside of this frame you can see glimpses of what was in the background of her photographs – things such as cars passing by.
We asked 7 product designers how they avoid creative burnout If you’ve ever felt like the days are on a repeating loop, or that your creative spark plugs have gone dead, rest assured—you’re not alone, nor is the problem a new one. The human brain only has so much bandwidth for the kind of focused, nimble thinking and collaborative engagement that design projects require before it tunes out or switches modes. Michelangelo got so famously burned out painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel (a commission he desperately didn’t want in the first place, but who says no to a Pope?), that he composed a poem to his misery. It begins, “I’ve already grown a goiter from this torture…”
The Sound of Graphic Design: Amsterdam's Lyanne Tonk and her Synaesthesia Thinking When describing graphic design we often talk of “silence” when there’s plenty of white space, or we say that something has a “loud” aesthetic. We like to hear colors; we enjoy still graphics that seem to vibrate and pulsate with noise. For the Amsterdam-based graphic designer Lyanne Tonk, who currently balances working part-time at the “young and a bit rebellious” Netherlands publisher Das Mag with freelance projects, a sound or lack thereof not only charges a composition but can spark the process behind making one. For certain (relevant) projects, she begins with what she hears. The rest comes afterwards. Let’s start with the sound of nothing at all, which is where Tonk’s interest in the visual aesthetics of noise first originated.
Maximilian Mauracher Weaves Monochrome Magic from Creative Restriction There are three things that strike you when you take a look at the portfolio of Berlin-based graphic designer and art director Maximilian Mauracher: firstly, his beautiful work; secondly, “wow, this guy really loves monochrome”; and thirdly, that his personal logo is surely a nod to a certain clown called Ronald’s famous golden arches. The similarity is no accident, and it points towards Mauracher’s playful and wry sense of humor, one that imbues much of his portfolio when that sort of thing is appropriate. It’s baffling (and impressive) to see his work in light of the fact that he only graduated from the University of Applied Arts in Vienna in June this year, and on creating his new website after graduation, he found himself thinking about how other graphic designers or illustrators craft their own logos.
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