339 Advanced Color

Studio Credits: 2, Prerequisites: 141 or 541 or 640

This advanced course will focus on applied color, by exploring 2D and 3D color relationships and systems, utilizing 2D painting, collage, and 3D model-making. It will focus on building concepts useful in other design studios, as well as exploring innate color palettes and style language. Through lectures and color manipulation exercises, students will explore traditional and avant-garde color theories; how light, different media, and the physical environment affect color; and the influence of culture and society on personal and emotional systems of color.