An analogous color cup

   I don’t think designs have to be big, because I like every little piece of creation around us. Just like this Christmas decoration cup, a Starbucks coffee cup, it is covered with many drawings of Christmas trees. There are only four colors on this cup, but when I look at it for the first time, I think there are many colors painted on it. This four colors scheme based on analogous colors, green, green-blue, light blue, and dark blue are colors which are side by side on a color wheel. In this cool color emotion, people more likely have harmony and calming feeling.

       According to Josef Albers’s book, Interaction of Color, he mentioned the each person see color or think a color in different ways. Even two people look at a same color on a paper in the same time, the color in their mind may be different. If we have a group of color composition, the same color in different base will be different in our eyes. Such us the cup, there is a tree with two type of circles. One is a dark-blue in the middle and light-blue around it, another one is light-blue in the middle and a bright green around it. Therefore, only three colors, but most people think it has four colors. Because the light-blue next to the dark-blue tends to be lighter, and when the light-blue next the green, it becomes lifeless. Therefore, we think there are 4 different colors, but actually there are only three.

   Epically, when I draw this cup, I kept changing the color, and I always got wrong. However, after I read Albers’s book, I understand more about the color theory, and interacting of color. Isn’t it amazing about the different affections of colors?