“Where love rules, there is no will to power.” — Carl Gustav Jung
COLOURlovers published a remarkable article regarding color palettes:
The world has seen thousands of artists and millions of great pieces of art, but we chose just a handful of pieces of art from some of greatest masters of painting to show a little of how they were inspired by color…
Artists and graphic designers of all stripes continually face the problem of how to compose their works in aesthetically pleasing ways. Despite its importance and generality, the perceptual basis of aesthetic response has not been adequately studied.
Contradicting many color theorists in the art world, color harmony appears to be primarily based on perceived color similarity, such that colors of the same hue, but different brightnesses and saturations, are experienced as highly harmonious.
The results show that “aesthetic science” is a new and exciting topic within cognitive science that can shed new light on the nature of our appreciation of the visual world.
Grid based design for websites is becoming more popular, but the technique is till somewhat unknown.
Design By Grid is a resource to promote websites designed with grids, and the tools and techniques used to make websites with grids.
The AIGA Design Archives are a record of AIGA’s annual juried selections of design excellence and the work of designers honored by AIGA. These interactive archives provide broad accessibility to an extensive collection of contemporary design for research and reference. This definitive resource on American design will continue to expand with each year’s new selections and the addition of special collections.
