Archive for September, 2010


Color Schemes

The first one is a poster I collect in past years, it used Red warm, red orange, and orange to contract with blue, blue green, and use black as the background color to stabilize the contrast.

Second is the album cover of Ivoryline, which use red warm, red, orange to contract with blue, blue green and green for a strong image impact.

The background used very light orange to smooth visual impact.

Next is and typography design on the magazine, it used light orange and light blue to highlight the note, and use orange and dark orange to push the contrast further more.

Last is a book cover, which use orange and red orange as the dominant color, and put in blue and blue green to single out the illustration.

I ART U : friday’s colors

Just found this website called I ART U.

They got some really interesting posts, and this is one of them

they collect the things that share the same color, and organized them into a composition.

below is the original post

http://iartu.blogspot.com/search/label/friday%27s%20colors

DId my color wheel chart in the old fashion way (but i love it!)

then is the analogous scheme

The Color Theorist I chose is Michael Albert-Vanel, and it took the most amount of time during the whole process, because the circles are really small, but I really love the result.

Environmental Analysis is the easiest part I think, since I got lucky because my color is a food color, so I went to the supermarket first.

then I took several picture from the meetings that I was invited to last week.

First is a Chinese restaurant in east village.

then a birthday dinner in K town

I read NOTCOT everyday as well, I really like their commercials.

I love the color and texture!

below is the original link

http://www.notcot.com/archives/2010/09/perrier-jouets-dandy-ball.php

beautiful bottle design, the post is originally collected and posted on Abduzeedo.

below are some pics that I like

Here is the link to the original post.

http://abduzeedo.com/beautiful-packages-bottles

The Cool Hunter

Basically I post interesting things to my FB everyday, but since I got this blog assignments, I’ll start to post something related to color to this blog.

First is the post I found several days ago, and it’s related to street art, and I really like the color these artists used, it makes me feel light and happy.

Last week I went to the NYC Botanical Garden tried to find the color in nature to feet the color wheel.

It took me all the afternoon, and here is the result!

There too many other picture, so I put them on my FB, so if anyone is interested, below is the link.

http://www.facebook.com/?ref=logo#!/album.php?aid=236379&id=514014937

Then I moved to work on Monochromatic Charts.

The 1 inch square one was done quickly, and for the free form one I draw the movement line first to make sure where I was going.

Then I started to cut out circles and paste them on the paper.

The Guerra Paint & Pigment Corp.

I took my second color workshop class in the The Guerra Paint & Pigment store which was very cool!

Here is the pictures I took in the store.

My Profile

My name is Casper Yang a.k.a Shang-Lun Yang. Wish to learn something else than English Literature, I prepared two years and got into Pratt Institute. Since my previous majored has nothing to do with design, I wish to expend my fundamental skills and aesthetic senses. So color workshop became my first step to the cornerstone of design. I wish to learn how to work with color, because there are so many choices out there, and the combinations are endless. I also wish to know what kind of effect colors can bring toward people. With a sharpen instinct toward color combinations through the workshop, it is easier to let clients understand the reason behind design.

The other day I was kinda lost coz I exited the wrong exit of subway station, and later just before I found the way back home, I saw this painting on the brick wall, so I took the picture, I love the color. 🙂

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