One of my all time favorite presents, the Color Game is a series of die cut color panels that you can manipulate the order of to create different color adjacencies, patterns and design. This tool was designed by the late Professor Ted Naos, School of Architecture at Catholic University in Washington, DC.
I owe him a debt of gratitude for the countless moments of delight it has given me and my kids for more than 15 years now. It’s part of my daily routine to shuffle the deck until I get to a different design that suits the my color mood of the day. Aside from general color theory info, Professor Naos also includes other tidbits like these:
1. Did you know that color is the most relative medium in the visual arts, and also more emotionally impactful than form?
2. Small areas of warm bright colors are most effective set against large areas of cool colors.
3. The most visible color is yellow.
Color Game Shuffle 1
4. The ones most remembered are red, then green, yellow and white, in that order.
5. My favorite tidbit? Physical variables like dominant wave length, purity and luminance are what is measurable. Hue, saturation and brightness are non measurable and belong to the psychological domain. What each of us sees is definitely different, for a variety or reasons, including psychological ones. That color mood stuff isn’t made up!😅
Color Game Shuffle 2
Ted’s widow is a lovely woman, and gave my husband one of the only ones she has left since Ted passed. Lucky me he tracked down how to find a new one, which took some doing, and I got a birthday present this year that was perfectly suited to me and now irreplaceable. We will all have to take up where he left off and create our own color “gifts” from here 🎨.
Color Game Shuffle 3
Color on!