COLOUR

Colour is an essential principle in design and heavily inspired the work created in this module. The Pantone book was created after developing a swatch from a photograph taken on the University of Leeds campus. 

Pantone is a highly standardised colour system that is used in designing and printing, and the company even releases colours of the year. The colours for 2015 were Serenity (blue) and Rose Quartz (pink) and these were applied when designing the Penguin book covers to represent gender, as is the theme of the books.

Using his Homages to the Square, Josef Albers was able to portray that colours when in different contexts and surrounded by different colour groups had varying ‘moods.’

When printing the Pantone booklet the document had to be converted from RGB (screen display) to CMYK (printing).

International Klein Blue is such a powerful colour and learning about its influence over art, design and other culture too, such as fashion, was eye opening to show the impact a colour can have in the world.