Today we studied Josef Albers and his experiments in color relationships are used throughout the world in the study of design and color. One of the cool things about this study was how you through switching through different hues and values and saturations you were able to see which combinations created more intense interactions. At first we studied with simple things like the rectangles and squares that had the same color on the inside square/rectangle but varying colors on the outside ones, but the ones that I really enjoyed were the more complex ones where you were able to create color combinations that created illusions. There would be one main color in the middle that overlapped two colors on the top and bottom. Then, a final color would go on top of the main color to show a split across the whole image. Through changing the difference in value and hue, you could make it look like the main color was actually two different colors against the top and bottom ones. Such color interactions are extremely interesting when you look at them in the context of design because a simple change in one color could make another look completely different when it goes through the human eye. We also used this app called Huedoku which was actually more complicated than I thought. It was cool to see two colored that you didn’t think were related suddenly be a combination of two colors and you have this moment like “wow I didn’t know that’s how you could get that color”.

Time spent: about 30 mins