Kaffe Fassett

Kaffe Fassett is a British textile artist who designs fabric and does quilting, knitting, needlepoint, and mosaic. He does a lot of BOLD prints in BOLD colors!

Colored dots!

Color coding

How awesome are color coded files and office systems??

Korean colors

Maybe there’s a reason I’m drawn to saturated colors!

Traditional Korean wedding dress:

Traditional Korean fan dance:

Columbia’s color palette

In case you were wondering – Columbia’s approved color palette is online and consists of:

Pink and blue

The strict boundaries of gender as enforced by color – an exhibit at Mass MoCA called Color Forms. These works are by Portia Munson.

colourlovers.com

Rayshawn just told me about this site – like Adobe Kuler you can create your own palette of colors, but there’s more “community” type stuff.

Adobe Kuler

And, thanks to Alice for telling me about this – Adobe has a web application called Kuler where you can create color combinations. Click here to see it. You can set what kind of relationship you want between a set of five colors – complementary, triad, etc – and then spin around a wheel to see what happens. Very cool!

Movie poster colors

Thanks to Eduardo for sending me these links – check it out!

(1) The abundance of movie posters that use blue/orange contrast. Of course, now we know from class that it’s a COMPLEMENTARY contrast, thank you Mr. Itten.  It is funny though, isn’t it, how many there are?

http://www.slashfilm.com/orangeblue-contrast-in-movie-posters/

(2) The use of big red fonts for terrible movies.

http://celebs.icanhascheezburger.com/2011/02/01/funny-celebrity-pictures-pro-tip-avoid-movies-that-use-bold-red-uppercase-fonts-in-their-posters/

ha!

Desaturated colors

I am not a natural fan of desaturated colors, colors that are dull and boring and recede into the background. I like bright vibrant colors that stand out. However, I think I should try to be more open-minded and at least be able to see their uses, and thus expand my repertoire. So on my ever-long list of quilting projects to try out, I have a project to try to use desaturated colors. Here are some examples of desaturated colors:

Anni Albers

Anni Albers was part of the Bauhaus school, met and married Josef Albers, came to the U.S. with him, and is probably the most well known 20th century textile artist.

Southeast Trails, Carrie Gundersdorf 2007

I cheated – aren’t those bright pops of orange and turquoise nice? But I guess they’re as nice as they are precisely because of the desaturated colors around them.