Wednesday, March 2, 2016

OUGD402 - Studio Brief 02 - The History of a Colour

This zine looks at the how the tones of a certain colour changes over eras, and features a colour swatch style square on each page, and in this case each is a different shade of red. To get these colours I researched magazine covers and photographs from each decade and took sample shades based on the popularity and use of each one, in order that they would representative of each time periods. To add humour, the first two decades (the 1940's and the 1950's) are actually different shades of grey, to represent the black and white technology that was available in those decades.

1940's

1950's

1960's

1970's

1980's

1990's



final content printed in order onto zine stock, with the additional of a final
page that reads 'colour has remained constant sine 2000'