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Mar 27 '11 by coffeecandle
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What do you think of these? [new one added]

This is for my 'technology' class - we're doing a topic on Colour, for which we have to design 3 Landscape A3 posters:
- the colour wheel (with analogous and complimentary colours)
- colour systems for print & screen (RBG & CMYK)
- Monochromatic & subtle colours.

Colour Wheel:

fixed the text, and a slightly different background

Monochromatic Colours & Subtle Colours:

CMYK & RGB Colour Systems:

coffeecandle on Mar 27 '11 at 6:04am

I think I chose the wrong time of night to do this lol..

gumbolimbo on Mar 27 '11 at 6:47am

I think you need to work the text. it's scattered all over the page right now, not left or right aligned nor centered. It seems a bit unstructured that way.

coffeecandle on Mar 27 '11 at 8:37am

Thanks :) I alligned it to the shape of the chameleon, because it's specifically talking about those parts, but I see what you mean. I'll have a play around with it.

Steve The Great on Mar 27 '11 at 9:46am

maybe group it closer and then point?

coffeecandle on Mar 29 '11 at 6:55am

I havent fixed the text yet, but here's a version of the monochromatic/ subtle poster...

coffeecandle on Mar 29 '11 at 7:27am

coffeecandle on Mar 29 '11 at 7:31am

text is too dark, forgot to fix that...

spacesick on Mar 29 '11 at 8:04am

nice color wheel!

coffeecandle on Mar 29 '11 at 8:08am

thanks :)

coffeecandle on Mar 30 '11 at 12:08am

bump!

coffeecandle on Mar 31 '11 at 4:38am

different version of the colour wheel:

quick-brown-fox on Mar 31 '11 at 4:48am

These are really nice amber, my only comment is that the green looks a little pale on the monochrome and tints. It might be a bit of a boring suggestion, but what about greyscale on one of the snakes?

coffeecandle on Mar 31 '11 at 5:03am

I've considered it, I might actually try it to see how it looks :) thanks!

preference for the first or second colour wheel? I'm leaning towards the second I think...

quick-brown-fox on Mar 31 '11 at 5:09am

The second, lighter version is a better illustration of the punchyness you mention in the copy

coffeecandle on Mar 31 '11 at 5:19am

sweet, merci! I tried a greyscale for the mono, I didn't really like it though, so I'll leave it. Thanks for the suggestion though! :)

Manupix on Mar 31 '11 at 5:32am

These are nice. ^_^

Color wheel: the colors don't seem to be precisely defined and placed (if that's important), it's not obvious which is supposed to be pure cyan, same for green; and what looks most like magenta is next to red.
Also, it's complEmentary ;)

Subtle colors: the 1st version is better because there are more different hues than in the other. It could use a low sat red though.

ibeenthere on Mar 31 '11 at 5:46am

wow
very nice designs!
i love the illustration style you got going there! i think the illustration great and done!

text wise there are some problems right now:
i wouldn't use a bigger font to highlight important words in the text, maybe use the same font size just a different color. the bigger font is a little to different and makes for an annoying read for me.
second thing, i don't like the right to left text allingment. maybe use the regular english left to right. i know you did it to better compose it with the brench and all, but maybe if you mirror the illustration and place it to the left of the text it won't be a problem.

hope that helps...

in any case, i'd like to have the finalize posters in high quality to print on my inspiration wall...it really very beautiful!
you can send it to my mail: ibeenthere@gmail.com

i mean, please send it!!!!pretty please!!! :)

coffeecandle on Mar 31 '11 at 5:47am

geez, thanks for the heads up on the typo, that would be sort of embarrassing. I don't think it matters too much about the colours on the colour wheel - I noticed that too, but it would be a buttload of work to fix it up, and my lecturer didn't point it out last time, so I'm hoping that it'll be alright the way it is :P

I'm not quite sure about the monochromatic version yet either. I think the second one doesn't have enough shades.. .but I don't like the way the shades make it look, so it's kind of hard to put them in there :P

Thanks for the comment Manu! :)

coffeecandle on Mar 31 '11 at 7:33am

Thanks so much :) I've changed the text allignment to left, but kept the bigger fonts - I like the way it emphasises the words and makes the text a boit less boring.

coffeecandle on Mar 31 '11 at 8:20am

nearly done with CMYK/RGB... I don't reeally like it though haha

coffeecandle on Mar 31 '11 at 8:29am

I'm not very happy with it, but it's due soon and I'm not going to create something new from scratch. I need to thicken the density of dots on the CMYK diagram, and the whole thing needs to be moved up a little, but I'm not sure if I will add anything else...

Unless you guys can think of anything :)

coffeecandle on Mar 31 '11 at 5:27pm

I think that's the final one!

Manupix on Mar 31 '11 at 5:42pm

You might have made the magenta dots around the RGB design lighter than the bg, and the green dots around the CMYK darker.

Steve The Great on Mar 31 '11 at 6:27pm

magenta isn't very magenta-y

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