My chosen visualization topic of interest is color. Ever since I can remember, color has always been my favorite element of design. I've been told that I've been color coordinating items since I was little. My mother told me that I used to color coordinate my pegs and other childish toys that I was given. Even now, my closet is color coordinated to a ridiculous degree. A favorite past time of mine several years ago was to scavenge through magazines and clip as many colors as I could and then paste them all together and try my absolute hardest to create a perfect color spectrum. It wasn't as difficult as it might seem to some people because I've always had a strangely keen understanding of color and how different colors work together or don't on a visual level.
One of the things about color that fascinates me the most is how it is used to convey anything. Without color, nothing would exist in my opinion. Color is the sky and the grass, the books we read and the clothes we wear. It gives shape and size through contrast and tints and shades.
Most importantly, it is used to convey emotions. The fact that the subconscious mind takes the color red and turns it into anger absolutely blows me away. It seems so many people don't take that into account when doing things like selecting their clothing or the paint for their living room. In this case, the color red is not just a favorite color that people choose to plaster on their walls, it is the emotion they want to convey to their guests and how they want to feel on a permanent basis. I am amazed at how certain ones like light blue or pastels can immediately be calming.
Another thing that I find awesome is how as a society, specific colors have come to have a certain association and iconology. An example could be purple which often refers to royalty and high society. Or green which can relate to nature or money but could not be associated with poverty as the color grey or brown could.
Scientifically, one of the most impressive things about color is simply how it works. I love how the color we see is actually the result of an extremely complicated process based on the lighting and the material and what is rejected versus accepted based on the current standards.
Overall, I find color absolutely fascinating and I feel that design and the world as we know it would all cease to exist with out it.
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