Colours

Colour is used quite simply through the website. It indicates which of the three sections the current project is contained. The bright colours used are ones I felt indicated the different sectors of my design work well and highlighted my appreciation of colour. I do not have one taste and love everything from rigid greyscale to gaudy expressive neon. Below explore each colour and why it was used and with a diagram of its use on the website.

Dark Grey

Avoiding black intentionally, this colour is dark but not black, it avoids some of the sheerness you see with black against other colours while still having the readability and neutrality of black. It is used whenever for the main pages of the website and for font broadly when the background colour is white.

Navy Blue

Navy Blue is used for my educational projects and is dark and classic colour that I feel describes the time I had in Edinburgh. The city and the university I studied in are both ones’ famous for their order and history: the university having its deeply developed hierarchy and ceremony; the city with its strict and pleasing palette of yellow sandstone and neoclassical architecture.

However, between the art school and student corners, the very new modern Scottish parliament and tiny lanes of the old town, the old industrial areas of lieth and the people throughout the city, Edinburgh is far brighter and colour city than its stock images imply.

I felt navy blue described all this well. This is entirely a subjective view, and the colour also works well for the more practical needs of this website, but navy blue was chosen careful to represent the mixture of rigid and wild my educational experience contained.

Magenta

Magenta is used for my professional work done at an architecture firm. The colour is punchy and reflects the more bright colour schemes Pollard Thomas Edwards were willing to keen to use.

My time working in London was also a really new, independent and experimental time in my life and brough a lot of life experience that informs my decisions now. I think magenta makes for a strong colour to represent these things as well.

Orange

My personal projects reflect my interests, politics and life. As such the colour I used for this section is my favourite, orange. It helps this particular shade works well with magenta and navy to form a pop-y and contrasting palette with white appearing well against it. The colour works particularly well with my posters and that was the first projects I brought to life on this website and helped cement its use.