{"id":381,"date":"2007-06-17T01:52:03","date_gmt":"2007-06-17T01:52:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/?p=381"},"modified":"2007-06-17T03:03:42","modified_gmt":"2007-06-17T03:03:42","slug":"color-in-motion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/2007\/06\/color-in-motion\/","title":{"rendered":"Color in Motion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image380\" title=\"color-in-motion.jpg\" style=\"width: 258px; height: 114px\" alt=\"color-in-motion.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/color-in-motion.jpg\" align=\"left\" \/>If you have some time this weekend to play with color\u00a0symbolism &#8211; here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mariaclaudiacortes.com\/#\">a fun interactive\u00a0site<\/a> produced a few years ago by Claudia Cortes as her thesis project for the MFA in Computer Graphic Design at Rochester Institute of Technology.<\/p>\n<p>The project received Best of Category honors in the I.D. Magazine 2004 Student Design Review competition, and\u00a0was featured by Communication Arts Magazine in the 2004 Interactive Design Annual. Here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.idonline.com\/sdr04\/best.asp\">an\u00a0interview with Claudia<\/a> from when she won Best in Category in the I.D. Competition.<\/p>\n<p>In\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.commarts.com\/CA\/interactive\/cai04\/\">Claudia&#8217;s comments<\/a> (under Info Design) from the Communications Arts award, she talks about color as a communications tool. Even though I am not a fan of color symbolism &#8211; too simplistic and too culturally biased\u00a0&#8211; I do believe we can\u00a0use color variations to reinforce the feeling of whatever we are making.<\/p>\n<p>Think of the different feelings produced by bright red, pale pink, dusty rose\u00a0and deep burgundy.<\/p>\n<p>Now think of all the colors of the rainbow in all\u00a0 values and saturations . . .\u00a0 millions of colors.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine the\u00a0simplicity of color symbolism layered with all the complexity of color variations and the possibilities\u00a0for communicating with color are endless.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you have some time this weekend to play with color\u00a0symbolism &#8211; here&#8217;s a fun interactive\u00a0site produced a few years ago by Claudia Cortes as her thesis project for the MFA in Computer Graphic Design at Rochester Institute of Technology. The project received Best of Category honors in the I.D. Magazine 2004 Student Design Review [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":7026,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-inspirations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}