Wednesday, February 25, 2009

On Orange


My module 3 is involved with the color orange and its association with processes. And having done so much research on it, I've come to really like the color, not that I ever had anything against it. I've always thought of myself as a blue guy, calm and pensive and etc... but I do have a more outgoing side and can be fairly friendly and energetic, orangish, you might say. So, perhaps my personality is made up of these complimentary colors, which kinda makes sense. I'm curious then, if this may be true for other people as well. I'm not a pro in color psychology, but I do have a ying/yang theory that I've grown to believe as a part of my Chinese culture. Basically, it deals with the idea that everything is composed of opposites, and one needs a proper balance of both extremes in order to function. For example, the Chinese have categorized foods into ying food and yang food (don't ask me which is which... I'm not too traditional) and if you eat too much of one or the other, then your health will suffer. The remedy would then be to eat more of the other food item. So, perhaps this applies in color psychology as well. Blue, the extremely calm and soothing color, is the exact opposite of orange, an color defined by its instability and energy. With blue and orange rapidly becoming my favorite colors, maybe I have found out how to visually(colorfully) represent my personality, and hopefully it's as healthy it's supposed to be.

1 comment:

Angela Haas said...

Interesting post--and btw, I loved your orange presentation, if I didn't already make that painfully clear. ;-)