Color and Nature Continued

How nature plays a big part in choosing colors and products for our home interiors.

You have now had a good look around you at color, now try thinking about the combinations of texture and pattern and how they are effected when you put combinations together.

Examine the different textures of similar items and see how they can create a subtle design, or how the light can highlight or obscure texture, how much of a different color do you need to make a statement, see how a mass of wild flowers with hundreds of different colors can work together to form a subtle single entity, how the curved flowing lines of a Willow tree are softer than the brutal severe lines of a Pine tree.

Look how the sunlight can make the bark look different from when it is in the shade, compare it to the effect of shadow on the tree. Try this with other aspects of nature, keep notes and photographs and you will be suprised how often you draw down on this information as inspiration for choosing colors, textures and patterns to create harmonious schemes and ideas.

Think of yourself as a scientist who has been conducting an experiment with color, texture and pattern; in order to make any progress you need to observe, then analyse your findings, then you will be able to relate them back to your work, and how they can work in with people; after all people are the main reason for design, to create environments in which we can perform specific tasks comfortably. For example a chair looks and feels more comfortable when soft curves are used, similar to those of the tulip chair, womb chair or egg chair.

So next time you see a new product in a magazine, think back to your observations and see if you can see how it is related to nature.

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