Visual Literacy: Colours

Boutet’s 7-color and 12-color color circles from 1708

 

We are surrounded by colours, but do we stay still long enough to appreciate the way colours play around with each other?

Why is the sky pleasant looking when it has white fluffy clouds with a cyan sky? Why does the same sky look so dull with grey [....]

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Visual Literacy course : Part 1

Ok, I’m sick and fed up of griping that Singaporeans are visually illiterate (ie. they don’t know ugly from pretty). It’s the reason why we have ugly HDB flat colour schemes, stupid ad designs, people calling crap "art" and so on and so forth.

From today, I shall use a variety of visuals to teach people how to appreciate things with [....]

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