Documentation of Josef Albers Transparency

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Final Pieces

This assignment's main goal was to have two colors, with another in the middle to make the illusion of transparency. The look was made by finding three colors to go in betweenfor : top on top, imbetween, and bottom on top. This challenged my abilities to decipher what a color is adding and what colors take away certain color.

Documentation of Edges

Vibrating edges

Disappearing edges

The Process

This assignment had exercises that relied on the interaction between colors. The first exercise encorporated finding similar light intensity. We went into a dark color in order to decipher whether the colors were similar in their light intensity. The second  was to find colors that appear to create a vibrating edge in between. This project had challenged me in many areas, especially with incorporating a design and design principles. Something I need to work on would be the principles I use, mainly alignment is something I need to work on.

Josef Albers Interaction of Color

The following photos are of the exercise of making one color look like two different colors.

The following photos are of the exercise of making two seperate colors look like one.

This photo was of the exercise of making one color appear as the opposite background.

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FINAL PRODUCTS OF JOSEF ALBERS INTERACTION OF COLOR

Making One Color Appear As The Opposite Background

Making One Color Appear As Two

Making Two Colors Appear As One

This assignment required making three boards with Josef Albers Interaction of Color principles. When placing one color on two different colored background, the main color would look different. The saturation of the background and the hue of the background played a big role in the outcome of how the main color would look. For example if you wanted to take purple out of your main color you would put it on a purple color. If you wanted to add purple to your color you would place it on a yellow background which would bring out purple because it's its opposite color. The hardest one for me was making one color two different colors. I could have fixed that with more of a yellow background rather than the orange one I chose.

Light Intensity

 The first exercises was to show the jumps between hues by finding the middle grey between black and white, and the second was to show the simultaneous contrast as the light color transitions to dark.

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The photos above are the three final pieces of the light intensity project. My hardest task of the game was trying to find a middle grey, but colors look different under different lighting. The first photo on top was to show the simultaneous contrast of values from white simultaneously going all the way to middle grey, and then all the way to black. The next photo on the bottom right was the piece with full gradient, showing from black, middle grey, light grey and white. The final photo on the bottom right is middle grey to white.

Focal point, and connection types (Group 2)

Spatial interval, & attitude (Group 1)

Focal point, attitude, and spatial interval (group 1)

Connection types, alignment, and focal point (Group 2)

Assignment 1

This is the first piece of Group 1:

It shows Focal point, hierarchy, and grouping

This is the second piece of Group 1:

It shows Focal point, hierarchy, and alignment

This is the first piece of Group 2:

It shows spatial interval, and connection types

This is the second piece of Group 2:

It shows fracture, spatial interval, and alignment

I learned various terms for this assignment that  I would have not recognized before. I learned to see more than just shapes, but to notice the little things about them and how I could even change a piece. Throughout the making of this assignment I tried to challenge myself to be different than others peoples projects, but it's still something I have to work on.  

Gestalt grouping