Say What You See
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This project is part of a wider investigation into the the relationship between colour and language, produced for my MA Graphic Design Major Project. It uses still life photography to document objects that share the same name as a colour. It aims to highlight the relationship between descriptive colour terms and the objects that give them their names.
Say What You See
- 1. Colourful Language MA Graphic Design Major project Visual Research Eleanor Maclure 2012
- 2. A gentle reminder of the connection between the words we use and the colours we see Say What You See
- 3. Say What you See Visual Research Presentation Since we developed the use of language, we have borrowed words from things in the world around us to describe the colours that we see. Even what we now think of as abstract colour terms like ‘black’, originally referred to something else like ‘night’. The word for pink originally came from flowers known as pinks (from the genus Dianthus) due to their frilled petal’s relation to the 14th century verb ‘to pink’, still used today in the term ‘pinking sheers’. Our language has evolved dramatically since then and, as with so many words, the ties to its origin have virtually been lost. Far removed from its beginnings, the word ‘pink’ is now widely understood as referring to the rosy band of hues ranging from salmon to magenta. Introduction
- 4. Say What you See Visual Research Presentation Introduction Of the eleven basic colour terms that we have in English, only orange is still regarded as descriptive, attributed to the hue of a ripe orange. Originally derived from Sanskrit, the word first appeared in English, in the 14th century, after the Persian and Arabic form, nãranj, was adopted by European languages. Compared to the millions of hues our eyes can detect, our colour vocabulary is startlingly limited. English has evolved to include thousands of words for colours, and yet only a tiny percentage of these exist as abstract terms. Most are re-appropriated from tangible things like lemons and lavender, as an attempt to articulate even a fraction of the colours we experience.
- 5. Say What you See Visual Research Presentation Introduction This project does not aim to present a true reproduction of the colours of objects. Rather it is a visual reminder of where some of our words for colours come from, their inherently descriptive nature and their undeniable connection to the often mundane objects in the world around us.
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