Visual Outcome Ideas

'Fun Shui' kit - making Feng Shui a fun colourful activity - nevertheless an idea like this wouldn't reflect my dissertation at all as it doesn't really implement my results of colour therapy.

This is quite interesting - the power kit looks like a small feng shui kit that comes with a ba gua mirror and few intructions/steps on feng shui. I quite like this idea. 

A hanging lamp with different colour accetate that reflects the acetate colour and design around the room. I feel like an idea similiar to this does reflect my dissertation. I was hoping as my final visual outcome, to create a colour therapy light that came with different colour filters (acetate). Thus the user can change the different colour, and the room would become that colour because of the light. Additionally with the light would come with explanations of the different colour theories that were suggested in my essay accordingly the user can use the colour theory they believe to heal them or create an emotion or whatever they were hoping to gain from the colour. 

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Final Dissertation Visual - Chromotherapy Light 

How Colour Theories affect us - Modes of Design

My study explores the psychological impact that colour can have on our choice, and the different theories that suggest colours can influence our physical, mental, emotional and spiritual state. All the different theories outlined in this thesis are debatable as what may evoke one reaction in one person, could evoke an opposite reaction in another. My aim was to study and further examine how colours affect us, concluding thus that colour is a phenomenal subject with no end to it’s mystery. It is up to each individual if they believe in the colour theory to follow and accept it’s proposed ideas. From all the theories, Colour Therapy seems to be the most universal, popular and what I find most credible through my research, implying that there is more of a market for Colour Therapy. Throughout history as well as currently, it is widely practiced as an alternative to the orthodox psychological treatments, thus seeming appropriate my visual outcome is influenced by my findings and opinion.

Thus rooting from my findings and belief, I wanted to give someone the gift of experiencing colour and presenting something that makes the user interact with colour in a pleasant way.  Without giving drastic tips to paint a wall, or change the bedding in one’s room as most likely that would not have the same impact as colour illumination. Producing a colour therapy light would provide people with a revitalizing source of radiating energy. The idea came about through the concept of illumination, a room can be transformed for healing, health, relaxation, inspiration, protection and balancing energy without actually painting the wall of a room to make it colour accentuated. There are three different colours filters or transparencies (red, yellow and blue) that can also be overlapped to create the users desired colours.

Additionally I created a Colour Therapy Light user guide to be read briefly about the subject and purpose of the light and how to use the light. It’s a great gift to give and a great gift to receive, thus leaning towards sparking up someone’s life with colour and educating them about the impact of the colours.

The packaging of the Colour Therapy Light in a colour filmed frame box was purely a decorative and matching the theme decision, to keep the packaging consistent with the colour illumination theme of transparencies everywhere throughout, unifying the whole theme and idea and purpose behind it. A box seemed most appropriate as I wanted it to be a gift item, thus something simple, classy and attractive qualified as my final criterion.

The dissertation acts as a complementary inside information on how different colour theories affect us, its dark blue hardback as making it black, would make the box look too “black” when you first open it which could give a negative impression, red and yellow would be too loud or if it was multi-colour for that matter. Thus blue seemed the most neutral and appropriate colour for the book. The font ‘Univers’ was used throughout the whole dissertation, as the font seemed very legible especially if one was too read through it under the colour therapy light to create a mood whilst reading. It’s the golden boy of typefaces used on electrical products or medical related themes, using this font trying to portray alternative natural healing method and co-ordinating with the colour illumination theme seemed most appropriate. Yellow, Blue and Red Transparencies were included in the beginning of the dissertation as I thought it would be interesting when the reader first opened the book and saw these transparencies, matches the theme of colour illumination film and makes it interesting to see through the title using those colours.

Throughout this exploration, I wanted to reveal that Colour does have an affect on us, and through colour illumination one can experience the beauty of colours and how it can change uplift our happiness and health.