like a damn fool

i was so caught up in finishing the book and then sleeping it off that i totally let these color/form/production assignments slip through the cracks. i finished the pantone colormatching -rightbefore- the critique, but my color/emotion thing didn't get done in time. which is so sad. because if you recall, i was super excited about doing that. but. i got it done before class was over, so that's something. 

pro-tip: if you're on a laptop, tip the screen back as far as it will go, and that'll get you closer to what the pantone colors really look like. color onscreen is so confusing.

that image of books is (maybe) what i'm going to do for my color book. depending on whether or not i can make it happen, which is debatable. photography: not a thing i have ever done. a nice camera: not a thing i have. i've been using katie's, and she's been kind of a photog-mentor, but i'm gonna try to check one out form the media center, so we'll see if that won't work better.

here's some of the images i took this weekend. (i did have that part of my assignment!) they did not print well in the least, nor are they, i guess, particularly effective. i really hope i don't have to go back to the drawing board on my theme...

also. because i don't know if i've written about it. and i would rather just rehash than go check.

assignment: an accordion fold book of photographs that illustrate different color harmonies with a uniting theme.

theme i am currently working under: books in a bookstore, arranging them by colors of their covers. as i was looking for largely monochromatic books, i even hit upon a potential narrative of books that women are expected to read: cookbooks, cosmo sex tips, diets, yoga, pseudopsychology/self-help, baby books, wedding books. (obviously i didn't post all of them, although i did take photos of all those topics).

complementary blue & orange

analogous green, blue and turquoise

triad of orange, green, and purple




i should probably get to brainstorming about what i'll do if these don't turn out. kelly says i run a pretty huge risk here of letting the cover-designer be more important than the design i'm trying to do with them, which is a very legitimate concern. so i'm going to try to frame things more like that first green color study, then we'll see how it looks from there.