[a little illustration]

A birthday card for my mom. 

[design makes us happy]

[scribbles]

Nothing like tracing paper. 

[dreams in color]

 

From my notebook

[sooo]

This is pretty fun.

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[Color Police 2]

These two illustrations are examples of both limited color palette and analogous color schemes. Personally, I think they're pretty good, but they are my illustrations so I am biases. 

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[color police]

This delicious pizza (made by my mom) is an excellent example of dominant chroma. The crust and cheese are a low chroma, making the minority of high chroma pop. (Note this pizza was reheated. It looked even more beautiful fresh)

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[crit day]

Critique of preliminary posters. 

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[the poster]

The poster of ideas. 

[thoughts on the reading]

Thoughts from my journal. 

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[Colors]

Here's a selection from my color group photos.

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Who Could That Be at This Hour? - Dominance (Hue)

Most of the book is blue, which makes the orange square around the title 'pop' (orange & blue are complimentary colors). While the blue is the same chroma as the orange, the surrounding grey gives the appearance of a lower chroma, which could almost make this an example of Dominant Chroma.

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Death of a Salesman - Softening Contrast

In this book cover, the two colors use two light value colors to soften the contrast. The colors are also not as pure and low in chroma, giving them a more natural appearance.

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Oliver Peoples Glasses Rag - Keying the Color

This rag uses a light yellow tint across the whole picture. This diffuses the chroma, giving the image a more sophisticated look.

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"Expresso/Americano" - Use of Neutrals

This image uses a total of two colors, and they are both a brown, natural color. Because their hue is not instantly detected as "warm" or "cool", it makes the image easy for the viewer to maneuver through.

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Paris versus New York - Limited Pallet

This uses a very limited color pallet, allowing the eye to quickly understand the information.

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"FADED" by Evan Kolacny - Transition in Hue

In this image, we see a transition from a purple hue to a blue hue, allowing our eyes to flow with the colors.  - http://ekolacny.tumblr.com/ -

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"Blunderbuss" - Harmonious Hue

The whole album color is made up of a blue hue except for the white and black (which are tinted cool as well).

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Press Here - Harmonious Chroma

While this image uses multiple hues, they are all of the same, high chroma.

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Headband - Harmonious Value

This headband uses various hues, but they are all of the same value.

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Shorts - Contrasting Hue

Red and orange are opposites on the color wheel, so these show very opposite hues.

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Plaid Shirt - Contrasting Chroma

This shirt uses the same hues, but changes the chroma to create contrast.

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"Animals" - Contrasting Value

This image uses the same low chroma throughout, but the variation between light and dark gives us the information of the factory.

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[ode to sleep]

Working on project 1.

-thumbnails-

I have a love for hands on photo manipulation


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[Ram's design principals & thoughts]

Thoughts from my notebook

"What is shown in Ran's design principals is that design is good when it makes way for the purpose of an object: not simply in a utilitarian/pragmatic way, but in a deeper, perhaps more spiritual way. When we design or make, we do so with purpose, which reflects our own longing for purpose. Despite each objects unique path or purpose, it can only be useful or 'good' if it follows a  "path of good design". To stretch a phrase, in the same way that "the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom", the fear of design is the beginning of purposeful objects.

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