Color Palette for Postcard
The fifth assignment is to create a postcard with various color schemes to develop necessary skill in using color palette and understand process of color scheme selection and usage.
1. Brainstorming
The main aim of this assignment is to learn various color combination and the effect that each combination brings. Therefore, I designed a very general layout so I can try many different combination of colors without having too much restriction. The given theme was “Music Festival”, and I designed a postcard for “Music Festival 2009″.
2. Postcard Design
Here’s the original design of Music Festival 2009. For aesthetic reason, I put the “2009″ before “Music Festival”.
3. Color Scheme
I decided to try different color schemes to reflect various festive seasons like Christmas, Chinese New Year, Hari Raya, Deepavali, Halloween, and so on. Here’s the seven color schemes:
4. More Colors…
The seven color schemes were good enough, but Dr Julian liked it a lot more. So I played with the color wheel and went beyond festive seasons to music genres and beyond…
5. Final Postcard
The final chosen postcard color scheme is “Spring”. Some reasons behind this choice:
• Cool color: blue and green.
• Natural and pleasing color to most culture.
Front view of the postcard:
Back view of the postcard:
