Say What You See
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The document outlines the 'Say What You See' project, part of a broader visual research initiative called 'Colourful Language', which examines the relationship between color and language. It explores how color terms are defined, categorized, and their visual correlations, utilizing various research methodologies including interviews, image manipulation, and surveys. The project aims to highlight the connection between linguistic descriptions of color and visual perception, while also considering potential future developments and applications.
Say What You See
- 1. Colourful Language AIC CONGRESS 2013 ELEANOR MACLURE July 2013
- 2. A gentle reminder of the connection between the words we use and the colours we see Say What You See
- 3. Introduction
- 4. COLOURFUL LANGUAGE AIC 2013Say What You See Say What You See is part of a larger investigation called Colourful Language, a visual research project that uses design methodologies to explore different aspects of the relationship between colour and language. Introduction
- 5. COLOURFUL LANGUAGE AIC 2013Say What You See
- 7. COLOURFUL LANGUAGE AIC 2013Say What You See Research Question How We Talk about Colour Exploring the way we use language to describe and define colours.
- 8. COLOURFUL LANGUAGE AIC 2013Say What You See Research Question 1. The Names of Colours: Analysis of the body of words used to describe colour, how they can be categorised, their origins, their meanings. 2. The Names of Colours: how do they visually relate to each other. For example how does red relate to pink, maroon or terracotta? How do these colour terms relate to each other in turn? 3. The Names of Colours: The consistency of their application, interpretation, definition and understanding. For example, the variation in how colour terms can be used to label colours and how varying colours can be identified using the same term.
- 9. COLOURFUL LANGUAGE AIC 2013Say What You See Research Question 1. The Names of Colours: Analysis of the body of words used to describe colour, how they can be categorised, their origins, their meanings. 2. The Names of Colours: how do they visually relate to each other. For example how does red relate to pink, maroon or terracotta? How do these colour terms relate to each other in turn? 3. The Names of Colours: The consistency of their application, interpretation, definition and understanding. For example, the variation in how colour terms can be used to label colours and how varying colours can be identified using the same term.
- 11. COLOURFUL LANGUAGE AIC 2013Say What You See Research Methodology A range of methodologies were used to address different aspects of the research question. These developed into sub-projects which were used to explore both the subject and the effectiveness of the process.
- 12. COLOURFUL LANGUAGE AIC 2013Say What You See Research Methodology Research methods included: ? Interviews ? Digital image manipulation ? Typologising collected material ? Information graphics ? Analysing existing bodies of text ? Generative systems ? Photography ? Survey
- 13. COLOURFUL LANGUAGE AIC 2013Say What You See Research Methodology Many colour terms developed from the world around us. The project developed as a reminder of the connection between the words we use the colours we see and the objects they come from.
- 14. COLOURFUL LANGUAGE AIC 2013Say What You See Research Methodology Research process involved: ? Development of long list ? Editing process to create a shortlist ? Terms not taken from commercial sources ? Sourcing of objects ? Photographs taken in natural daylight ? Neutral background ? Minimal amount of re-touching to crop images and remove imperfections from background
- 15. Output
- 16. COLOURFUL LANGUAGE AIC 2013Say What You See Output Say What You See
- 17. COLOURFUL LANGUAGE AIC 2013Say What You See Output
- 18. COLOURFUL LANGUAGE AIC 2013Say What You See Output
- 19. COLOURFUL LANGUAGE AIC 2013Say What You See Output
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- 21. COLOURFUL LANGUAGE AIC 2013Say What You See Cream
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- 23. COLOURFUL LANGUAGE AIC 2013Say What You See Oatmeal
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- 25. COLOURFUL LANGUAGE AIC 2013Say What You See Champagne
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- 27. COLOURFUL LANGUAGE AIC 2013Say What You See Lemon
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- 29. COLOURFUL LANGUAGE AIC 2013Say What You See Mustard
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- 31. COLOURFUL LANGUAGE AIC 2013Say What You See Amber
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- 33. COLOURFUL LANGUAGE AIC 2013Say What You See Orange
- 34. COLOURFUL LANGUAGE AIC 2013Say What You See
- 35. COLOURFUL LANGUAGE AIC 2013Say What You See Peach
- 36. COLOURFUL LANGUAGE AIC 2013Say What You See
- 37. COLOURFUL LANGUAGE AIC 2013Say What You See Salmon
- 38. COLOURFUL LANGUAGE AIC 2013Say What You See
- 39. COLOURFUL LANGUAGE AIC 2013Say What You See Terracotta
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- 41. COLOURFUL LANGUAGE AIC 2013Say What You See Raspberry
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- 43. COLOURFUL LANGUAGE AIC 2013Say What You See Fuchsia
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- 45. COLOURFUL LANGUAGE AIC 2013Say What You See Plum
- 46. COLOURFUL LANGUAGE AIC 2013Say What You See
- 47. COLOURFUL LANGUAGE AIC 2013Say What You See Aubergine
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- 49. COLOURFUL LANGUAGE AIC 2013Say What You See Lavender
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- 51. COLOURFUL LANGUAGE AIC 2013Say What You See Violet
- 52. COLOURFUL LANGUAGE AIC 2013Say What You See
- 53. COLOURFUL LANGUAGE AIC 2013Say What You See Slate
- 54. COLOURFUL LANGUAGE AIC 2013Say What You See
- 55. COLOURFUL LANGUAGE AIC 2013Say What You See Turquoise
- 56. COLOURFUL LANGUAGE AIC 2013Say What You See
- 57. COLOURFUL LANGUAGE AIC 2013Say What You See Jade
- 58. COLOURFUL LANGUAGE AIC 2013Say What You See
- 59. COLOURFUL LANGUAGE AIC 2013Say What You See Aquamarine
- 60. COLOURFUL LANGUAGE AIC 2013Say What You See
- 61. COLOURFUL LANGUAGE AIC 2013Say What You See Avocado
- 62. COLOURFUL LANGUAGE AIC 2013Say What You See
- 63. COLOURFUL LANGUAGE AIC 2013Say What You See Lime
- 64. COLOURFUL LANGUAGE AIC 2013Say What You See
- 65. COLOURFUL LANGUAGE AIC 2013Say What You See Olive
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- 67. COLOURFUL LANGUAGE AIC 2013Say What You See Chestnut
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- 69. COLOURFUL LANGUAGE AIC 2013Say What You See Chocolate
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- 71. COLOURFUL LANGUAGE AIC 2013Say What You See Charcoal
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- 73. COLOURFUL LANGUAGE AIC 2013Say What You See Mushroom
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- 75. COLOURFUL LANGUAGE AIC 2013Say What You See Oyster
- 76. Evaluation
- 77. COLOURFUL LANGUAGE AIC 2013Say What You See Evaluation ? Successful output, viewers found visually engaging ? Criteria for selecting objects was not rigorous ? These limitations could be addressed over a longer timescale ? Different reactions to the images ? Some were more difficult to identify than others because of viewers knowledge ? Generated a greater degree of engagement than expected
- 78. Conclusion
- 79. COLOURFUL LANGUAGE AIC 2013Say What You See Conclusion ? Can be viewed as a stand alone project or as part of wider investigation ? Aim was not to present the objects as the best example of the colour in question ? Act as a visual reminder of the relationship between the colour and colour term and between the colour term and the object
- 80. COLOURFUL LANGUAGE AIC 2013Say What You See Conclusion Possible developments of the project include: ? Gathering more objects to photograph ? Testing viewers ability to identify the objects in the images ? Using the images as stimuli for a study on colour naming using images of objects
- 81. COLOURFUL LANGUAGE AIC 2013Say What You See Conclusion Existing real world applications: ? Print sample for FE Burman printers ? Show colour reproduction quality of HP Indigo printer ? Sample for GF Smith paper ? Show colour reproduction quality of Mohawk Everyday paper stock
- 82. Bibliography
- 83. COLOURFUL LANGUAGE AIC 2013Say What You See Bibliography ? A full bibliography for the project is available on my blog at: eleanormaclure.wordpress.com/bibliography ? All of the outputs produced for the project are hosted on Issuu and can be viewed online at: http://www.issuu.com/eleanorbydesign ? PDFs of the documents are also available to download from my blog at: eleanormaclure.wordpress.com/ outcomes/
- 84. Colourful Language Eleanor Maclure July 2013 www.eleanormaclure.co.uk eleanormaclure.wordpress.com issuu.com/eleanorbydesign eleanorbydesign@hotmail.com @eleanorbydesign