Richard Mehl – FAST CLASS: Color for Designers: Exploration, Theory, and Application

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Richard Mehl – FAST CLASS: Color for Designers: Exploration, Theory, and Application

1. Class Introduction
2. Natural Awareness Of Color & Playing
3. Colors And Their Relationships
4. Color Contrast Of The Color Wheel
5. Color Illusion In Practice
6. Illusion Of Transparency
7. Color In Design: Tangrams
8. Expression Of Color & Opposites – Part 1
9. Learning From The Masters
10. Everyday Found Color

CLASS DESCRIPTION
An Accessible Approach To The Serious Study Of Color
FAST CLASS:

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AFTER THIS CLASS YOU’LL BE ABLE TO:

• Effectively select and apply color to enhance your design projects
• Utilize color theory language to justify your design decisions
• Expand beyond preconceptions and your comfort zone in working with color

ABOUT RICHARD’S CLASS:

Our response to color comes from the place in our brain where trust, loyalty, behavior, and decision occur – every successful project relies on a designer making smart choices about color.

In Color for Designers: Exploration, Theory, & Application, Richard Mehl will give you a foundational understanding of color theory principles and demonstrate how to apply them. Richard has studied alongside design legends Paul Rand, Bradbury Thompson and Herbert Matter; in this class he’ll share insights gleaned from 12 years of teaching and writing about color in design.

Richard takes an accessible approach to the serious study of color theory for designers. You’ll be exposed to a relevant series of ideas and skills by exploring a range of analog and digital projects.

• Color terminology and meaning
• How to view color in context
• Contrast grids and color illusion
• Tips for creating a harmonious color palette

In Color for Designers: Exploration, Theory, & Application you’ll develop a new awareness and sensitivity to color that will bolster your confidence in your personal and professional design work.

WHO THIS CLASS IS FOR:

This class is for designers and color aficionados of all levels working across various media, ranging from floral design to user experience design. It is also an appropriate refresher in color theory for experienced designers.

RICHARD MEHL

Richard Mehl has taught two-dimensional design, color theory and typography at the School of Visual Arts for over 12 years. His students have gone on to become successful, award-winning designers and art directors for prestigious design studios, including Bloomberg, New York Magazine, Pentagram, The Guardian, The New York Times and Sagmeister & Walsh. Mehl received an MFA in graphic design from Yale School of Art, where he studied with graphic design legends Paul Rand, Bradbury Thompson and Herbert Matter, design educators Alvin Eisenman and Inge Druckrey, type designer Matthew Carter, and information design expert Edward Tufte. He is the author of Playing with Color: 50 Graphic Experiments for Exploring Color Design Principles (©2013 Rockport Publishers). Mehl lives with his family – wife Alicia and Sheldon the Pug – and carries on a graphic design practice in Chelsea, New York.

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