color studies

Thoughts on Jim Krause color for design and art video:

Good grief there was a lot of info in this video... thoughts that stand out for me

• Get yourself a color wheel and study it.
• The three primary colors, when mixed, make up all other colors.
• Color contains three elements: hue (color), saturation (the brightness or intensity of color), and value (how light or dark a color appears).
• Value establishes visual clarity and according to Jim is the most important of the three elements.
• Calibrate your computer monitor(s).

He also gave some AI tips: play with color guide and use color picker

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Thoughts on Mirian Bantjes

Wow, what an interesting woman!

- She separated herself from the way most designers work. Which she calls a strategic model: meet with the client and figure out their needs. Now, it's the designers that hire Mirian, she no longer tries to figure out the client; instead, she makes what she wants.

- She works against what is expected.

- Works with purposeful randomness.

- Design needs artists. Artist don't need to loose themselves by doing commercial work, they can make a living being creative. The personal work will still be there.

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