I’m still reading through the white space booklet. What pops on page 9? Yellow. That delicious warm, bright, hopeful, optimistic, cheerful and happy color. It‘s almost impossible to not be influenced by yellow. And, apparently it’s important to birds’ survival. So states this chock-of-strange-and-useful-tid-bits-booklet, “the yellow color of a baby robin’s throat is a ‘releaser’ signal that instinctively urges the parent to feed the young. This begging stimulus is so powerful that adult robins will drop food into the open beak of any bird with a throat of the right ‘releaser’ shape and color, even when the throat belongs to a different species of bird.” How can nature in its splendor, be so pragmatic?
Posts Tagged ‘design’
Not white
Tuesday, February 1st, 2011white space
Monday, January 31st, 2011The coveted white space. If I really held to this I’d stop writing now. Actually, I would have hit delete and written nothing. Designers love that clear, open, mis-understood space. Clients want to fill it. Designers want to clear it. So what is it? I found a paper company’s promo yesterday while searching my studio shelves for something — I pulled out this booklet titled, White Space. The cover is cleverly designed with tons of it with just the perimeter of the page bordered with color blocks. Ah. Space. The publication is dedicated to color, to paper, to the relation of color. My posts will pull from my mind and the publication, White Space.
“After all it is every color and no color at all. In nature, it is snow of high mountains and the sand of the tropics, just as in the language of symbols, it is the emblem of both purity and death. White is truly the alpha and the omega…” (White Space, Jim Walter Papers, Inc).
Inspiration sparks design
Monday, October 11th, 2010
So last blog I spoke about passion — I think it’s quite logical to throw enthusiasm and inspiration into that category too. I seem to be wired with the natural ability to get enthusiastic about life in general — and in this instance I’m talking about soap. Homemade, all natural soap that smells so fresh and delightful that I continuously want to hold the bar up to my nostrils. My client, Dawna Conley, makes these soaps — Orange Ginger, Breakfast Bar, Lemon Grass Calendula — which lather beautifully and smell darn good. I’m currently designing the logo, labels, and some instore posters for this fabulous project. I’m introducing elements that, well, make you think of water, fun, clean, fresh, spa, nature — waves, bubbles, texture of linen, etc. Have a look.

