Over at Quofda (Question of the day) the question is Why is your favorite color your favorite color?. As a designer it’s sort of hard to nail a favourite colour to a certain extent as I’m fairly colour obsessed and tend to use a wide range in work. There is one colour though I tend to lean more towards than others and that is green.

You can’t always choose what colour scheme you are using. Clients have existing branding that you often have to work with. You might in your eyes see it as not working but you can’t just reject a client on the basis of their colour scheme (not if you want to have clients). The ‘how the heck do I make that work’ is one of those things at some point you are going to utter at a client colour scheme.

Tis the season to get the mystic prediction kit out and do some predictions. As part of this, here are my ones for this year in traditional blog manner. It’s like putting up tinsel for blogs, hang your predictions for the year as you shake the web like some magic 8 ball.

Often we are unaware of the power of colour, it’s so common we have become desensitised on a conscious level to it. While I was watching ‘Natural Born Killers’ tonight, it brought home to me how colour is really powerful in creating, enhancing and influencing emotions. Many films use colour as a cinematic effect, this film though does it in what I personally think is about the peak of colour and emotion art.

I was wandering through the list at MoMB (The Museum of Modern Betas Most Anticipated) - a sort of highly subjective list gathered from del.icio.us links. I thought I would do a bit of an experiment and see what colours and what tone (dark or light) is the main colour of the holding page or site found. The results are rather interesting and ignoring the design of these and just looking at the colours and tone gave me a different look at the sites as a whole.

COLOURS:

Why does everyone around this season of turkey get all odd about colour combinations? Is it just me who remembers the old playground chant "red and green should never be see". To top it all I have a site currently involving the nice patriotic colour combination of red, blue and white. Not even a nice logo on this to save me from jumping out the window either - we talking engravers old english here (argh).