LIVING BY DESIGN

Exercises in Color


Objective: Form a swatch book of local colors.

Form a color palette that is based fundamentally upon the local geography, local culture and local sensibilities. Find hand pick materials, textures, from local areas and extract color value from it. Label it based on the source of the color. Add notes/photographs where some contextual explanation would be helpful. Where possible, attach a copy of the actual material along with the swatch. It might be okay to find a Pantone equivalent, but this exercise is not about finding a Pantone equivalent of local colors. Further more, explore color relations of the found swatches.

While this research will eventually become a reference book of local colors, this exercise is about gaining a deeper understanding of its subtle distinctions.



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