COLOUR AND DESIGN

Paper Code: 
MTX-124
Credits: 
3
Contact Hours: 
45.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 
  1. To create aesthetic sense through designing
  2. To understand the various aspects of colour and their effect.

 

9.00
Unit I: 
UNIT I

·         Concepts and specifications of colour

·         Light and colour phenomenon, Additive and Subtractive    combinations.

  • Colour theories as light theory, pigment/ Brewster colour theory.
10.00
Unit II: 
UNIT II

·         Colour wheel-primary, secondary, sub-secondary   and tertiary colours, Rainbow colours

  • Psychological effects of colours.
9.00
Unit III: 
UNIT III

·         Warm and cool colours.

·         Colour harmony.

·         Colour contrast in fabric and garments.

·         Application of colour combination and harmony in designing of clothing/ fabric.

·         Modification of colours as formation of tint, shades & coloured grays etc.

  • Colour intensity charts
10.00
Unit IV: 
UNIT IV

·         Design- Elements and principles of design and their application in designing.

·         Composition of designs - by Geometric ornamentation by the conventional treatment of natural and artificial forms and by the adoption reproduction of earlier designs

  • Geometric ornamentation, Construction of symmetrical figures, reversing inclined figures.
7.00
Unit V: 
UNIT V
  • Arrangement of figures – unit repeating design, the drop device, drops reverse designs, sateen system of distribution (with reference to half drop) diamond base, ogee base, rectangular base lines.
  • Construction of designs from incomplete repeat.
  • Symmetry- principle concepts, perspectives and its application
  • Classification of motifs, border patterns, all over patterns, border patterns and all over patterns.

 

Essential Readings: 

 

  1. Clarke, W. ,An Introduction to Textile Printing, Newnes-
    Butterworths,Boston,1977.
  2.  Miles, L., Textile Printing, (2nd edition), Society of Dyers and
    Colorists, England,1994
  3. Storey, J., Manual of Textile Printing, Thames and Hudson
    Publication, London, 1992.
  4.  Yates, M., Textiles- A Handbook for Designers, Norton and
    Company, New York, 1996.
  5. Grociki, Z.J., Watsons Textiles Design and Colour, London, Newness Butter Worths,1998.
  6. Joyce, Carol ,Textile Design, Watson-Guptill Pubns, 1993

 

Academic Year: 
2014-15
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