Colour and Form-I: Design Course The Fundamentals of Colour by Ms. Nijoo Dubey NID Campus, Bengaluru

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Design Course
Colour and Form-I
The Fundamentals of Colour
by
Ms. Nijoo Dubey
NID Campus, Bengaluru
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1. Introduction
2. Nature
3. Colour Gradation
4. Collage
5. Colour Interaction
6. Street Exercise
7. Case Studies - Examples
8. Contact Details
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Design Course Introduction

Colour and Form-I The course is explorative in nature and teaches the fundamentals of colour, relationship between colour and
form, colour interactions, colour composition etc. The course is taught within the Design framework.
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Ms. Nijoo Dubey The topics covered under this course are outlined below:
NID Campus, Bengaluru • Colour Manipulation
• Colour Wheel
• Colour Contrast
• Colour space
• Relationship between Colour and culture
• The psychology of Colour
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• Colour Harmony
troduction
The course involves lectures, suggested reading, exercises and few small applied research assignments. The stu-
dents will learn how to use colour and form in the context of design.
1. Introduction
2. Nature Colour Basic:
• The colour imparted by an object is produced by the mixture of wavelengths reflected from the surface.
3. Colour Gradation
• The perception of the colour of an object is dependent upon various factors as illumination, media, techniques,
4. Collage quantity, relationship to other colours present, memory and culture.
6. Street Exercise Colour Mixing and Colour Wheels:
Colour mixing happens according to three different systems:
7. Case Studies - Examples • Subtractive colour is the process of mixing pigments together as is seen in paintings.
8. Contact Details • Additive colour is the process of mixing coloured light as in theatrical lighting or television.
• The partitive colour system is based on the viewer’s reaction to colours when they are placed next to each oth-
er. Normally colours are seen in relation to other colours rather than in isolation.
Colour wheels are arrangements or structures that enable the viewer/perceiver to organize and predict colour
reactions and interactions. Specific colour wheel choice depends on the effects of colour and imagery desired in
the art medium employed. The painter uses both the subtractive and partitive wheels. The photographer uses
the additive and partitive wheels.
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Design Course Types:

• Pigment Wheel:
Colour and Form-I The mixing or pigment wheel is the basis for working with subtractive colour; it imparts information about the
The Fundamentals of Colour reactions colours have when they are actually mixed. In this system the primary colours are red, yellow, and blue,
by which are used in combination to form the oter hues.
Ms. Nijoo Dubey
NID Campus, Bengaluru • Process Wheel:
The process wheel provides us with three basic primaries- yellow, magenta, and cyan and when these are mixed
purer hues are created.
• Partitive Colour System:

The partitive colour system (known as Munshell wheel) is based on five primary hues or as they are known as
Source: five principal colours-yellow, red, green, blue, and purple.
troduction • Light Wheel:
The light wheel system is based on the additive colour system and provides information concerning light rays
and transparent colour. In this system the primary colours are red, green, and blue. Other hues are created by
combining the primary colours which are basically coloured light.
1. Introduction
2. Nature Hue:
3. Colour Gradation The most important dimension of colour is hue. Hue is simply the kind or name of a colour. A hue without any
4. Collage white, black, gray, or any complementary colour in it is termed a pure hue. The hue name is the term used to
describe a particular wavelength. A broken hue, or a broken colour, is a combination of unequal proportions of all
5. Colour Interaction the primary colours. Primary, secondary, and tertiary hues create different visual reactions when used. The prima-
6. Street Exercise ry hues attract the eyes; they are the most stable; most easily recognizable; and they offer the greatest contrast.
7. Case Studies - Examples Secondary hues are less stable than primary hues and are compatible with other colours. Tertiary colours are the
least stable of the hues and they impart the least contrast. Hue dominance imparts tonality.
8. Contact Details
Value:
Value refers to the lightness or darkness of a hue. Value creates space, turns shape into form, and delineates ob-
jects. Value clarifies space and form through shading, creating pattern and texture, imparting emotion, and giv-
ing definition and emphasis. Different values create contrast. A composition of few hues but with a wide range of
values is always visually appealing.
Intensity:
Intensity, also known as saturation, defines the degree of purity of a hue, or, termed differently, how bright or
how dull a hue is. All pure hues are fully saturated. Pure hues are the brightest possible. Intensity affects spatial
feelings.
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Design Course Temperature:

Temperature refers to the warmth or coolness of a colour/ hue. Warm hues are those hues related to red and
Colour and Form-I cool hues are those which are related to blue. A colour or hue’s temperature changes depending on the warmth
The Fundamentals of Colour or coolness of the adjacent hues and colours. The addition of black will warm a hue, white will cool a hue, and the
by addition of the hue’s complementary will reverse the temperature.
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1. Introduction
2. Nature
3. Colour Gradation
4. Collage
6. Street Exercise
8. Contact Details
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Design Course Nature

Colour and Form-I Exercise - 1:
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From Nature’s Palette:
Ms. Nijoo Dubey A Study and replication of colours found in nature.
Duration:
1/2 day, Individual exercise
Objective:
To enhance sensitivity and observation.
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Mode:
ture
• Collect three-four samples of flora/fauna in the campus.
• Cut cartridge sheets in to A-5 size.
• Observe as many colours as seen on the flora/fauna by the naked eye.
1. Introduction • Each colour has to be reproduced and should be painted on an A-5 sheet.
2. Nature
Materials:
3. Colour Gradation
Flora/fauna in the campus, cartridge sheet, poster colours, brushes.
4. Collage
5. Colour Interaction Discussion in the Class:
6. Street Exercise Colour Harmony, The Colour Wheel, Primary, Secondary & Tertiary Colours.
8. Contact Details
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1. Introduction
2. Nature
3. Colour Gradation
4. Collage
6. Street Exercise
8. Contact Details
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1. Introduction
2. Nature
3. Colour Gradation
4. Collage
6. Street Exercise
8. Contact Details
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1. Introduction
2. Nature
3. Colour Gradation
4. Collage
6. Street Exercise
8. Contact Details
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Design Course Colour Gradation

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Colour Gradation:
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NID Campus, Bengaluru Duration:
1/2 day, Individual exercise
Objective:
To increase the response threshold of the observer.
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Select two hues and by mixing one into the other create a gradation.
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Materials:
Poster Paints (any 2 colours), brush and paper.
1. Introduction
2. Nature Discussion in the Class:
Simultaneous contrast, after image.
3. Colour Gradation
4. Collage
6. Street Exercise
8. Contact Details
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our-gradation
1. Introduction
2. Nature
3. Colour Gradation
4. Collage
6. Street Exercise
8. Contact Details
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our-gradation
1. Introduction
2. Nature
3. Colour Gradation
4. Collage
6. Street Exercise
8. Contact Details
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Design Course Collage

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Collage:
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2 days, Individual exercise
Objective:
To make a composition in Colour
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• Select a colour from the 11colour cultural set.
lage
Namely: white, red, black, yellow, green, blue, orange, purple, pink, brown and grey.
• Collect snippets of the colour from magazines, newspapers or any other coloured paper medium. Arrange the
1. Introduction snippets in a gradation from light to dark and cut them into 4 rectangles.
2. Nature
• Mount the 4 rectangles on a cardboard/ sheet of paper painted in a middle tone of the gradation.
3. Colour Gradation
4. Collage • Make sure to leave a margin of 2 cms on all sides and 1 cm gaps between the rectangles.
6. Street Exercise Materials:
Poster paints, brushes, coloured paper from scrap.
8. Contact Details Discussion in the Class:
11 colour cultural set, colour and culture, colour interaction.
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1. Introduction
2. Nature
3. Colour Gradation
4. Collage
6. Street Exercise
8. Contact Details
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1. Introduction
2. Nature
3. Colour Gradation
4. Collage
6. Street Exercise
8. Contact Details
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1. Introduction
2. Nature
3. Colour Gradation
4. Collage
6. Street Exercise
8. Contact Details
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1. Introduction
2. Nature
3. Colour Gradation
4. Collage
6. Street Exercise
8. Contact Details
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1. Introduction
2. Nature
3. Colour Gradation
4. Collage
6. Street Exercise
8. Contact Details
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Design Course Colour Interaction

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Colour Interaction:
Ms. Nijoo Dubey
1 day, Individual exercise
Objective:
An exciting exercise, it simultaneously exposes the student to three most important phenomena of Optical mix-
ture, Colour interaction and Bezold effect. It also fine tunes the student’s composition making capabilities.
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Mode:
our-interaction
• Make a composition using colored paper as background and 2 differently coloured strips.
• Make the same composition as above by replacing 1 of the 2 used colours in the first compostion with a differ-
ent hued strip.
1. Introduction Or
2. Nature • By changing the colour of the background paper.
3. Colour Gradation
Materials:
4. Collage Satin ribbons or coloured paper strips, glue, coloured paper.
6. Street Exercise Discussion in the Class:
Impressionism, Optical Mixture, Bezold Effect.
8. Contact Details Observation:
Observing the discussion in the class it was very evident that the exercise provided an excellent opportunity of
collective learning as the work of each student demonstrated atleast two of the three above mentioned phe-
nomena.
As the coloured paper available in the market is in limited shades the alternative to the pre painted coloured pa-
per provided by the studio was that the student could use poster colours and paint the background on their own.
The coloured background paper provided by the NID-Asian Paints Colour Research Studio reduced the time taken
doing the exercise and eliminated the errors made due to skill in painting.
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our-interaction
1. Introduction
2. Nature
3. Colour Gradation
4. Collage
6. Street Exercise
8. Contact Details
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Colour and Form-I
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our-interaction
1. Introduction
2. Nature
3. Colour Gradation
4. Collage
6. Street Exercise
8. Contact Details
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Design Course Street Exercise

Colour and Form-I Exercise-5:
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Pulse of a Street:
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2 day, Group exercise
Objective:
Colour inspirations can come from the most unexpected places and can be derived from various sources both
internal and external. To equip the learner with a “colour inspiration tool”, the exercise entailed the students
Source: to experience a culturally rich space, capture it through photographs and cull it out in key emotions, words and
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images. In the final stage a colour palette for each space was made.
street-exercise
Mode:
• Study any of the below listed “public space” having a coherent character.
1. Introduction For eg. a street (residential or commercial), a temple complex, institutional complex and capture the essence of
2. Nature that space in a collage (photographs, material samples, any other interesting materials).
3. Colour Gradation
• The exercise started with the students making a field visit in a group of 3-4 to an iconic street in the city and
4. Collage capturing the energy of the space in photographs.
6. Street Exercise • Brainstorm with the group on the qualities of the space and come up with 4-5 keywords that are the “emotional
quotient” of the space.
8. Contact Details • From the photographs clicked select 10-15 images that most appropriately describe the place.
• From these 10-15 selected images derive a colour palette of 8-12 palette/ family reflecting the essence of that
space.
• From this stage on the students work independently on a composition. The theme being one of the keywords
selected for the space, using the final colour palette.
Materials:
Camera, Printouts.
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Design Course Discussion in the Class:

Gestalt’s principles of composition, colour harmony, colour and emotion.
Colour and Form-I
The Fundamentals of Colour Note:
by The number of colours in a palette is kept on the higher side to give the students enough freedom to choose
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1. Introduction
2. Nature
3. Colour Gradation
4. Collage
6. Street Exercise
8. Contact Details
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street-exercise
1. Introduction
2. Nature
3. Colour Gradation
4. Collage
6. Street Exercise
8. Contact Details
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street-exercise
1. Introduction
2. Nature
3. Colour Gradation
4. Collage
6. Street Exercise
8. Contact Details
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street-exercise
1. Introduction
2. Nature
3. Colour Gradation
4. Collage
6. Street Exercise
8. Contact Details
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street-exercise
1. Introduction
2. Nature
3. Colour Gradation
4. Collage
6. Street Exercise
8. Contact Details
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street-exercise
1. Introduction
2. Nature
3. Colour Gradation
4. Collage
6. Street Exercise
8. Contact Details
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street-exercise
1. Introduction
2. Nature
3. Colour Gradation
4. Collage
6. Street Exercise
8. Contact Details
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street-exercise
1. Introduction
2. Nature
3. Colour Gradation
4. Collage
6. Street Exercise
8. Contact Details
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street-exercise
1. Introduction
2. Nature
3. Colour Gradation
4. Collage
6. Street Exercise
8. Contact Details
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street-exercise
1. Introduction
2. Nature
3. Colour Gradation
4. Collage
6. Street Exercise
8. Contact Details
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street-exercise
1. Introduction
2. Nature
3. Colour Gradation
4. Collage
6. Street Exercise
8. Contact Details
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street-exercise
1. Introduction
2. Nature
3. Colour Gradation
4. Collage
6. Street Exercise
8. Contact Details
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street-exercise
1. Introduction
2. Nature
3. Colour Gradation
4. Collage
6. Street Exercise
8. Contact Details
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street-exercise
1. Introduction
2. Nature
3. Colour Gradation
4. Collage
6. Street Exercise
8. Contact Details
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street-exercise
1. Introduction
2. Nature
3. Colour Gradation
4. Collage
6. Street Exercise
8. Contact Details
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street-exercise
1. Introduction
2. Nature
3. Colour Gradation
4. Collage
6. Street Exercise
8. Contact Details
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street-exercise
1. Introduction
2. Nature
3. Colour Gradation
4. Collage
6. Street Exercise
8. Contact Details
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Design Course Case Studies - Examples

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Example 1 Example 2
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Example 3 Example 4
1. Introduction
2. Nature
3. Colour Gradation
4. Collage
6. Street Exercise
Example 5 Example 6
8. Contact Details
Example 7 Example 8
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Design Course Contact Details:

Colour and Form-I This documentation for the course was done by
The Fundamentals of Colour Ms. Nijoo Dubey at NID R&D Campus, Bengaluru.
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Ms. Nijoo Dubey You can get in touch with her at
NID Campus, Bengaluru http://www.nid.edu/people/faculty/nijoo-dubey.html
You could write to the following address regarding

suggestions and clarifications:
Helpdesk Details:
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tact-details R & D Campus
National Institute of Design
#12 HMT Link Road, Off Tumkur Road
1. Introduction Bengaluru 560 022
2. Nature India
3. Colour Gradation Phone: +91 80 2357 9054
4. Collage Fax: +91 80 23373086
5. Colour Interaction Email: contact[at]dsource.in / dsource.in[at]gmail.com
6. Street Exercise
8. Contact Details

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