Assignment 6

Metamorphosis of Evolution A six panel transformation symbolizing moving from industral world of metallic saturated hues to the more organic, pastel particles of DNA. This transformation serves as the final project for the course Design II and showcases all the skills students have garnered throughout their design courses.

The first step in this process was to create a color scheme using source imagery. Students had to three different sources: a master painting, a personal photograph, and an object from nature. Following, students had to use make optical mixtures in order recreate the unique colors worlds found using the source imagery. The design for this project is based off of two antonyms that were supposed to aid in giving you inspiration and direction on this otherwise less structured project. The only requirements for this design included: transparencies, tetrad, deep space, and a vibrating edge.
    My goal was to show the transformation of evolution from organic to synthetic. At one end of my design I feature "gears" with dark saturated colors to show the industrial age while DNA strands with bright colors showing the organic side of life. I struggled the most with choosing the placement of each color. I tried to keep colors from the same source imagery near each other on the rendering. However keeping the amounts of color the same as on the color scheme proved to be more difficult. I placed emphasis on each transformation by creating a different color environment for each panel. 
    Due to my source imagery, many of colors were focused around red and green which forced me to mix colors together that I wound't normally have done, but it also limited me on the simultaneous I could create amongst the colors. Since my colors were so similar I had to make sure to separate similar hues to avoid color assimilation with a neutral tone or contrasting color. My favorite panel is the first one featuring the gears because of the time spend on painting each section of the transparencies with my least favorite the fifth panel because of the lack of intense color. Looking at the project as a whole, I am excited about how my design seems to flow from transformation to the next and I like the push and pull created from contrasting saturated, intense color with dull, lighter colors.