Post Roundup – the Book of Faces Edition II
This week’s topics: Women in Street Art, Colour Use in Marketing, Vintage Cookbook Illustrations, the Psychology of Over-Exposure to Art, a New Show by Jenny Holzer, and Scientific Illustration of Ugly Extinct Creatures as Body Art. Whew! It’s not every…
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Rethinking the Colour Wheel
When we’re taught the colour wheel in art class, we learn the 3-primary colour wheel. Red, yellow, and blue are the primary colours, orange, green, and violet are the secondary colours. This is where we get complementary (opposite) colours as…
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Gestalt in Design
Most designers know about gestalt theory as it applies to art and design. Even if you’ve never heard of the term before, the principles of this cognitive theory explain how we perceive 2-dimensional compositions, and we use them every day…
