Friday, 1 December 2017

OUGD404 - Colour Theory - Critique


OUGD404 - Colour Theory - Critique

The group critique we had today was incredibly useful to gauge to the standard my work was up to, and where it should be. From the feedback I got, the positive aspects were that my written work was very good and that I had researched the colour theories well, as well as appropriate contextual research such as colour by subtraction and greenery. Also I got some good feedback on my idea for using filters and colour by subtraction because it is interactive and unconventional.

The constructive feedback I received was that I could have done more handmade visual investigations and that the general aesthetic of my work was quite basic and too digital in some areas, which I completely agree with.

While I found all this feedback very useful in improving my work, I think something that was even more useful was being able to look at other peoples work and critique it; Looking at some of the really impressive research publications people had come up with filled me with ideas on how to enhance my work. I think my work was to restricted and over-complicated, some of the best examples were sheets of single relevant images and research on pages, all clipped together on various paper stocks and all achieving a fluid, continuous and stylish aesthetic.

To further my project I'm going to start by finding images for research; looking in art, design and photography books and photocopying a set of pictures relevant to my project. I'm going to use photography and  analogue approaches like collage to improve the visual investigation of the colour theories and I'm going to review the visual work I've done already, more specifically the contrast of hue work; while this is the experiment I used the colour filters for which got some good feedback, I don't like the visual aesthetic of these images. Part of the reason for this is the bold clashing colours, however these are necessary for the colour filters to work, so I will look at a way to refine these.

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