Thursday, 12 March 2009

primary focus

Yellow, red and green, as iconic-accents.
Obviously, it’s a bit overstated here, but the use of colour should be more evocative,
Either by triggering associations with that colour, or pushing emotional buttons.
To further unsettle, the forms are amorphous, blobbing around in space, amoeboid.
The games consoles from the movie “existenz” are worth looking at.

rubber lover




The qualities of these ‘slimes’ is really lovely, as it stretches and reveals less of its colour.
The user-reaction to this stuff is always extraordinary, for some a wince, for others it’s a very primeval play.
Funny how a little viscosity can bring a smile to the face.

visor


These images keep floating around my desk, so I put them together.
The colour is yellow, but with an important lime element, corrupting its brilliance.
In a reflective finish, greyed out, it evokes a futurism with a gentler aspect.

lux-ish


Low-level metallic and reflective surfaces, gunmetal and anthracite qualities, but in more welcoming tones. Don’t know where I am going with this at the moment, but it is with mass-market in mind, rather than high-end, about low-level luxury.

lemon anise





Source: Garance Dore

trace

Apart from loving the intensity of this colour, deep violety indigo whatever, it is the quality of loose colour that I am into, the feeling that it will rub off, a draggy spongey touch,
Also, its translucence could be great for interior usage, with plastic components in cars (think!) , it could be a whole new environment possibility.

mallard


It started with a really interesting sculpture by George Taylor(image on left), in an exhibition in the Pangolin Gallery, in King’s Place, York Way. The feathers, and the fur sample (from Berwick St) kicked off a series of colour images (pictured in the middle)
It’s all it is, for now…

irresistible





creative

romantic

bleeding

soft

watercolour

colour needs to surprise and be familiar. at the moment especially, colour needs to be irresistible.

Source: 'Destructuve Vintage TyPO' experiment by Alberto Seveso

guides

These are some diagrams I made for design friends who were visiting London, with some of my usual scoping haunts. Might be handy if you don’t have long in London, but want to see some stuff.