Monthly Archives: April 2011

Photographing Colour 2

As part of my own work on documenting colour and coloured objects I have been looking at the work of Jennifer Young and her Friday Colour Series. I first came across her photography when researching for my Major Project Proposal

Photographing Colour 2

As part of my own work on documenting colour and coloured objects I have been looking at the work of Jennifer Young and her Friday Colour Series. I first came across her photography when researching for my Major Project Proposal

Nude is the New Black?

Yesterday, whilst researching colour trends I came across this article written by Paula Cocozza on the Guardian website in May last year. It elaborates on the article I found in the Metro paper last year. It highlights the how far

Nude is the New Black?

Yesterday, whilst researching colour trends I came across this article written by Paula Cocozza on the Guardian website in May last year. It elaborates on the article I found in the Metro paper last year. It highlights the how far

Survey Drafts

As outlined in my proposal, a significant amount of the data I plan to gather for this project will come from surveys. I have already described some of the things I wanted to find out through questionnaires in my proposal

Survey Drafts

As outlined in my proposal, a significant amount of the data I plan to gather for this project will come from surveys. I have already described some of the things I wanted to find out through questionnaires in my proposal

Photographing Colour

For the past few weeks, along side my other research activities I have been photographing objects that have the same names as colours, such as oranges. From my collected list of colours I have separated out abstract colours like red

Photographing Colour

For the past few weeks, along side my other research activities I have been photographing objects that have the same names as colours, such as oranges. From my collected list of colours I have separated out abstract colours like red

More Posters and a Book

I have also created a book showing the search results of each of the eleven basic colour terms plus the two different colour analysis for each image. I have produced two different iterations for structuring the book, which is in

More Posters and a Book

I have also created a book showing the search results of each of the eleven basic colour terms plus the two different colour analysis for each image. I have produced two different iterations for structuring the book, which is in

Googling the Rainbow

From the body of images gathered from my Google image searches (described in the previous post) I have created some posters. These are the first iterations of a poster showing the colours of the spectrum. I have provisionally titled these

Googling the Rainbow

From the body of images gathered from my Google image searches (described in the previous post) I have created some posters. These are the first iterations of a poster showing the colours of the spectrum. I have provisionally titled these

Colour Term Searching

As part of my research activities I have been using Google’s image search function to create a set of interpretations for different colour terms. Colour terms are often misunderstood, particularly less common ones like puce. I started using Google’s image

Colour Term Searching

As part of my research activities I have been using Google’s image search function to create a set of interpretations for different colour terms. Colour terms are often misunderstood, particularly less common ones like puce. I started using Google’s image