The Yellow project
Colour design, bachelor project 2018
Developed by the idea to bring the vibrant energy from yellow into a family of colours
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What
A colour study based on the colour yellow, through a colour palette of 25 colours, printed by hand on five selected fabrics intended for interior use. The colour palette was developed from an idea of designing a 'family of colours', with yellow as common denominator.
Why
Developed by the idea to bring the vibrant energy from yellow into a family of colours. The project are developed based on Ittens theory of colour contrast, and Chevruels principles of harmony and contrast.
Picture below: One example from the Colour registrations phase on the colour yellow, in watercolour.![]()
How
By Regestrating natural phenomena, e.g. the transition from light to dark, one colour changing to another. On the picture on the right I have translated my observations into watercolour sketches, which have been a method of working and developing a colour palette, with each colour having a bit of yellow in it.
I mixed an printed colours by hand using remazol pigment. I developed a method to produce and categorise printed colours into a colour index.
Picture below: Textile production process, steaming after printing colour palette.
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Picture below: Process of printing and categorising colours for colour index.
Picture below: Printing large samples from the colour palette.
