All: A brief addition to the color commentary:
I once had the privilege of hearing a Joseph Albers lecture on color and its
contextual effects he described as ³visual schvindles.²
I also once had a client for a major public building who saw the color of
the cast stone samples I presented differently out of each eye. So the
question became ³which was his favorite eye?²
If he could have attended the Albers lecture with me, he could have
experienced a ³visual schvindle of a visual schvindle.²
Color, like so many of the important qualitative relationships that are
central to designing is a ³secondary quality.²
Warm (and cool) regards,
Jerry
On 2/26/16, 9:22 AM, "Gunnar Swanson" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> On Feb 26, 2016, at 9:46 AM, Terence Love <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> I get the feeling
>> that most people seem happy providing colour can be specified fairly
>> precisely in *some* way.
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>
>
>> On Feb 26, 2016, at 11:25 AM, Terence Love <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>> Currently, the challenge is how to link these kinds of design theories to the
>> practical outputs of designers. Colour is a start.
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>
>
> It seems to me that the operative description of color (for the purposes of
> this particular theory) would be based on a useful description of color (for
> this particular theory.) RGB numbers with 256 steps in each channel, CMYK
> numbers with 101 steps in each channel, the numbers from various other
> systems, reflectance curves, output curves, typical perception, perception by
> people with red/green color blindness, and a bunch of other things could be
> descriptions of "color" but you¹d be better off using the description that is
> useful (and clearly stating what the description is) rather than looking for
> some universal theory of color that fits into some universal theory of design
> results.
>
> Anyone looking for THE definition of design or THE definition of color does
> not understand language and definitions.
>
>
> Gunnar
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