colors
- What kinds of emotions do you experience or associate with the color red?

- What kinds of emotions do you experience or associate with the color blue?

- What kinds of emotions do you experience or associate with the color yellow?

- What kinds of emotions do you experience or associate with the color purple?

- What kinds of emotions do you experience or associate with the color green?

- What kinds of emotions do you experience or associate with the color orange?

- What kinds of emotions do you experience or associate with the color pink?

- What kinds of emotions do you experience or associate with the color black?

- What kinds of emotions do you experience or associate with the color white?
- What kinds of emotions do you experience or associate with the color grey?

Use this website to answer the following questions.
- Read the first part of the graphic. Based on what you read, what difference do you think color makes?
- Which color curbs the appetite, is associated with calm, water, and peace and increases productivity?
- Which color is associated with royalty, wealth, success and wisdom?
- Which color is associated with excitement, enthusiasm, warmth, and caution?
- Which color increases appetite and is associated with love, passion, and intensity?
- Which color is associated with money, new growth, tranquility, and nature and relieves depression?
- Which color is associated with cheerfulness and warmth and is thought to stimulate the nervous system and mental processes?
Go to this website for the remainder of the questions.
- Which color is associated with wisdom, knowledge, and intellect, creates expectations and is unsettling?
- Which color is associated with purity, cleanliness, and neutrality, helps with mental clarity, and brings to mind pure actions and thoughts?
- Which color is youthful and fun, can promote action and confidence, but can also decrease erratic behavior?
- Which color is associated with power and authority, makes people look thinner and/or sophisticated, and is mysterious?
- List one fun fact that the website gives for each color.
yellow |
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green |
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blue |
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purple |
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pink |
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red |
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orange |
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white |
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grey |
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black |
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Using the psychology of color, answer these questions. Your answer should be based on the research associated with each color, not personal opinion.
- If you were designing a restaurant, which color(s) would you use predominantly in the dining room? Why?
- If you were designing a restaurant, which color(s) would you avoid in the dining room? Why?
- If you were designing an office space, which color(s) would you use and why?
- If you were designing an office space, which color(s) would you avoid and why?
- If you were designing a classroom, which color(s) would you use and why?
- If you were designing a classroom, which color(s) would you avoid and why?
- If you were designing an art studio, which color(s) would you use and why?
- If you were designing an art studio, which color(s) would you avoid and why?
- If you were designing a doctor’s office, which color(s) would you use and why?
- If you were designing a doctor’s office, which color(s) would you avoid and why?
- Use the internet to search for color palettes for each of the following cultures:
Egyptian |
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Spanish |
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French country |
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Asian |
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Moroccan |
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Indian |
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Native American |
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- How can you use color to do the following (what colors or color scheme would you use)?
Make a room feel smaller |
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Make a room feel bigger |
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Make a room more relaxing |
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Make a room more formal |
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Make a room more casual |
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Make a room with no windows brighter |
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Make a room with too many windows less bright |
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Make a hot room feel cooler |
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Make a cold room feel warmer |
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Part 3
- Using room pictures from the internet, locate large, clear pictures that illustrate the following elements of design.
- Warm Colors
- Cool Colors
- Monochromatic
- Analogous
- Complementary
- Triad
- Neutral
- Neutral with an accent
- Split complementary
- Put these pictures in at the bottom of this document, 3 pictures per page.
- Write a complete sentence for each describing where you are seeing the element you say the picture is describing.
- Make sure pictures are in order of the list above.