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Petrônio Bendito
pbendito@niu.edu
Office # 753-6916
Observing Designs/Color
Scheme- Activity 13
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Two Important Tips:
1. Make sure that when you select your color scheme you pick colors from
the right tonal family (bright, subdued, or dull).
2. Make sure the design sample is well illuminated. Do not put the sample
against the computer monitor. If you do so, the colors will look darker.
The best way to "observe" and create an identical color scheme is to place
the sample on your desk -- and trust your eyes!
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Objective: To learn to identify the main color schemes used by designers in printed media. |
Activity Outline
1. Find an image that you like. Make sure it is obvious that the designer made conscious color design decisions. Ads, packages, posters, artistic color photography, and illustrations are some of the examples that can be used for this project.
3. Identify the main colors in the design you selected: What colors are used to hold the design together? What colors are used as "accent colors?* What about hue, value and chroma -- are they taken into consideration?
4. Make a color scheme in the Bauhaus Software with the colors you identified. Write down the PN of your final color scheme.
4. Design 1: Using the Bauhaus softcanvas create a composition that resembles the color structure as seen in your design sample. Your composition should have the same color scheme and the same color proportion and sequence as the sample collected.
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5. Design 2: Now, use the color scheme to create a entirely brand-new composition. For this one, you do not have to follow the color sequence and proportion as shown in the sample you collected. Try to come up with your own way to use this color scheme.
Supporting Tools
- Web site reading
(This page!).
- Bauhaus SoftCanvas¨
Software
Alternative link to SoftCanvas
Submission and Documentation
Checklist
Picture of Design
Sample:
Scan the sample you worked with, save as a jpg, and label as in the example
below:
PaulG_design_picture.jpg
Design 1:
PaulG_design_identicle.gif
Design 2:
PaulG_design_own_design.gif