Colour swatch

OUGD404 – 6^th December deadline

Josef Albers

The Homage to the Square

·      Different pallets and thus of different climates

·      Each colour and square interact with each other emitting altering tones and moods

·      Proportion layout form and colour

·      Quasi-concentric order of squares remains the same in all paintings

Task:

Create a PANTONE MATCHING SYSTEM for your street

Colour swatch

Identifying, matching and communicating colours to solve problems associated with producing accurate colour matches in the graphics art community

Camille Walala – ‘she lights up the night’

1.     Photograph a steer/ corridor/ scene of Leeds

2.     Using Illustrator make a Pantone group/ colour swatch of your chosen ‘scene’

3.     A folded booklet in a design of your choice/ backed by research included in the book

4.     The colour swatch

5.     250 words on Josef Albers use of colour,

250 works on Klein (blue)

6 examples of Klein’s blue in graphic design,

100 words on Pantone,

100 works on RGB v CMYK,

500 words on the use of colour in graphic design, research and images – evaluation of the colour group/harmonies/contrasts

Books:

Japanese Book Binding

Art of the book

M to M of MVM Paris

Josef Albers – small paintings

The Layout look book

High Quality

Making and breaking the grid

How this connects to final project

Colour schemes to tie all the books together

Design process

Development

Research design boards