Cognitive Colors In the beginning of this project I was very inspired by websites that I found. I came across two particular websites called “ColorStrology” and “We Feel Fine.” ColorStrology was all about color and how it relates to your astrology and birth date. The website matched a color to your personality based on when you were born. The other website, We Feel Fine was a database of people’s emotions all around the world. The website took “I feel” statements from all sorts of blogs and matched them with a color. This inspired me to create a final project relating to emotion and color. I began with 8 colors that I chose to focus on. Then I did research on how color relates to emotion and how certain colors can change one’s emotion. In the design aspect, I matched the emotion of the color to a line or shape. Creating the images was easy for me but they didn’t have enough going on and seemed dull. However, when flash came into play I tried taking a different approach. Keeping the images and idea of emotion, I wanted to make a simulation of what I was trying to express. I ended up taking pictures of a friend and went from there. At first I had the simulation go into her brain and fade to the 8 color images. I knew that this was a little quirky but I liked the uniqueness. After the in-progress critique I decided to make the simulation zoom into the eyes of my friend and then seem to fade or jump into her head or mind. I chose the title “Cognitive Colors” because cognitive is the way you think and has to do with emotions and thought processes and color, because that was my initial idea.
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