Saturday, 20 August 2016

Colour


Colour

The discussion on colours was carried on 24 June 2016 tutorial class. Dr Carmen was discussing on the representation of colours, the association of colours, meaning of colours, formal and contextual analysis of colours. We were asked to form in a group of 5 to discuss on this.


Every colour has its own meaning and it can vary depending on culture and circumstances. In psychology perspective, colours dedicates different meanings. For example, red colour is colour of energy, passion, action, ambition and determination. It is also the colour of anger and sexual passion.

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Every group has to discuss on one colour and my group was asked to do on green. It was so interesting as different people will relate it to different things in their first minds. When it comes to Green colour, the first thing which crossed my mind is jealousy. Some of them think of animals such as caterpillar, frog, snake and chameleon. In other hands, some of them start to think of brands and products which are related to green colour. For example, Starbucks and Heineken use green logo.


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After we listed our many examples of ‘GREEN’, it is our brainstorming time. We start to think the reason behind it. For example, Starbucks’s logo is green. When I go back home, I do some research. I found that the colour chosen is very important in marketing and advertising. People will easy to notice green logo as it connects to natural, instructional vibe. According to some research, it stated that colour increases brand recognition by up to 80% and colour can be up to 85% of the reason people decide to buy. It is because colour trigger our emotions.

(Retrieved from http://www.thedesignlove.com/top-20-famous-logos-designed-in-green/)


Besides that, we also think of social media. Nowadays, the world is overwhelmed by high technologies. Everyone is using social media such as whatsapp ,wechat and line. We can find some similarities among these three social media. That’s green colour of logo. Green is psychologically denotes as the colour of balance.

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People is also easily linking it to parties in Malaysia or current issue. PAS (Parti Islam Se Malaysia) itself has its own green flag.


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In conclusion, every colour has its own meaning. The choice of using certain colour has its own reason behind it. 

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