Comments on: What does Color Mean?

by: Postcard Design Center » Make Your Own Postcards Online

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 16:39:31 +0000

[…] If you decide to create your own postcards for printing and marketing purposes it’s time to take in a few words of advice to improve the success of your efforts. Sending your message or greeting on a card has other steps to consider. By researching and planning how you will design, print and distribute your postcard will increase your bottom line. A postcard is very portable and really packs a punch, considering the low cost of the entire direct mail campaign. When it comes to postcard printing, I recommend choosing a printer that can produce your postcard in brilliant photo colors with a protective coating. […]

by: Postcard Design Center » Commercial Printing Processes Explained

Fri, 30 Nov 2007 22:00:29 +0000

[…] If you are really serious about creating a professional desktop publishing file format for the commercial printing process you want to do a little research on the various printing methods that will reproduce the finest commercial printing for you. One of the most common types of offset an digital printing people elect to use a commercial printing company for is printing in photo colors or CMYK color process. Once you decide on which printing company you will use for your brochure, poster or newsletter talk directly to a press-press specialist for a brief summary on how to make files properly prepared for their commercial printing process. There’s a good chance that each printing business may have slightly different preferences in terms of digital files that are optimized for their pre-press equipment. Instead of spending the time learning all of the in’s and out’s of electronic publishing the printer’s staff are usually more than happy to explain the easiest and best way to send digital files directly to them. […]

by: Make a Logo Naturally » Connect Nature and Your Logo and Others Will Appreciate it

Mon, 28 May 2007 23:40:36 +0000

[…] 1. Understand representation of the prism, the spectrum and CMYK printing- http://www.weprintcolour.com/postcard-talk/?p=35 2. Color is light that is reflected 3. Color sets mood 4. Whether it is just spoken or written words have tints of significance 5. Pink is easygoing, non-masculine on the other side blue is capricious and also cool; 6. Red can be hot as fire/ dangerous while yellow is bright and sunny and bright. 7. An artist can docket a expository scene much the same way a x-ray machine does 8. The artist has got absolute freedom of choice to integrate any color to get across character and feeling 9. Colouration can give emphasis to a feeling or attitude. 10. An artist can get inside of the firm’s technical know-how with artistry. 11. A logo an emotional communication instrument, color is essential with practical purposes. 12. =Coloring is employed to communicate to the public. It will provide instructions of what to do as well as what is wrong to do: red=stop; green= go; yellow, caution; red= danger; 13. Colour will tell you what does what, while what goes where: green wire to earth, red wire to live or yellow to ground. Color is widely used as a code to impart and order information or give instructions. 14. Coloring is used as a function inside of depictive conception 15. Colour as communicator- Colour has the power to instill images; it is a great communicator. 16. When we look at a map, we will interpret printed colours to imagine the busy highway as well as quiet small roads. 17. Coloring as communicator- We build a picture inside of our mind’s eye of roads, lakes and mountains as well as visualize what to 18. Manipulating mood and atmosphere- A subject matter greatly influences contrasting moods, moods that are again reinforced by the proportions of the coloring 19. Simple uncomplicated color patterns application conveys brightness and warmth 20. British producer Damien Hirst was attracted by the color patterns as well as a form of an educational toy His sculpture, entitled Hymn, stands some 2Oft (6.lOm) tall and weighs several tons 21. Artists use coloring to convey atmosphere and emotion. Designers, scientists or engineers similarly apply colouration as a language to convey information so it’s easier to understand. 22. The Artist can lay down colors using colorized pencils, pastels, acrylics and also gouache for lively colour experimentation. 23. Experiment with how your logo looks using colorations in nature; find colors you never knew were there. 24. I think it is elemental to familiarize yourself with the power of color and balance. 25. By using colour as a fundamental you carry out the logo evolution process in a fun way. 26. Balance depth, darkness, with intensity of colors, form cool homelike colors, plus add enough diversity to avoid monotony in your coloring scheme. 27. Another method for selecting a coloring scheme when you have no real preference is to start with colorations you already have visually. Look at surfaces, flooring, and flowers. 28. Scientific research is one thing, and the results of various worldwide studies are fascinating, although sometimes conflicting, especially when it comes to color preferences among folks of distinct cultures. 29. Climate affects color preferences, too, and the public respond differently to diversified colours, depending upon the climatic conditions where they live. 30. Our personal history also has a significant influence on our colouration preferences, while using heritage colours has proven well to big graphic designs. Folks feel even more content by processing them and feel even more connected to their ancestry. 31. If the firm’s natural coloring is gray or blue-grey, apply a similar coloring like an ocean blue colour with a cool grey for stationery. 32. Amethyst, sapphire blue and green colour lenses are seen as magnificent on women with dark skin. 33. You always want to create the firm’s logo a color that is harmonious with the direction it is going in. 34. To create highlights inside of the firm’s logo, white with a touch of grey for objects in complimentary coloring […]

by: Natural Body Healing »

Fri, 13 Apr 2007 15:54:42 +0000

[…] Take a look at “The Dark Side of the Moon“, 1973- a famous Pink Floyd album cover. The artist employs a compelling coloring of the prism as well as the spectrum used for a dominant observable metaphor with expectancy, consideration and ambiguousness of color distribution through a prism. Inside physics color a pattern is distinguished as a characteristic of an artifact or organisms that results from the light that is reflected. […]

by: Make a Logo Naturally » Simple Logos that Have Persona

Thu, 22 Feb 2007 06:20:59 +0000

[…] Some will argue that colors are the most important element of a logo design. In the end, you are the one that has to live with your logo, make your color choice one that that pleases you. Your logo is a business decision that you make in the end, there is allot more than simply getting a graphic designer or online design studio to build your logo. The logo you create is a full identity package that includes all aspects of your company image, best fonts, colors, and background or paper choice and reproduction methods. There are a few sources I have found online that helped me allot in developing logo ideas, logo concepts and plans for my clients. […]

by: Commercial Printing » Crafting a Company Business Card

Wed, 21 Feb 2007 02:28:35 +0000

[…] During the design planning text on your Business Card may be aligned left or right or centered but as a general rule readable text should not be smaller that 6pt and alignment is subject to layout. When you design business cards use unique typography to add artistic flare. At the planning stage use of color onscreen may vary from finished product. Make it a point to understand the colors you are using at the way the will those colors will output in final form. In business card design there are those that know and those that pretend to know. In addition to that there are those that know and are willing to shared the best business card design ideas. Either way, your interest at heart should never be less than what is best for you. Here are a couple of different perspectives to have when getting your business cards designed and printed. […]