“SATURATED: THE ALLURE AND SCIENCE OF COLOR” Cooper Hewitt Museum “SATURATED: THE ALLURE AND SCIENCE OF COLOR”

Cooper Hewitt History The Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum is part of the Smithsonian Institution, located in a mansion that was once the home of industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie. Considered a “technological marvel” when it was completed in 1902, the Smithsonian Institution converted the building into a museum in 1976. It recently underwent a $91 million dollar renovation to create a twenty-first century design museum that would be “a place to inspire, educate, and empower people through design.”

When you arrive at the museum… Keep you ticket! Get the pen Use the pen to save pictures of artwork and to play with interactive tables and rooms.

Interactivity https://vimeo.com/144168257 Interactivity at Cooper Hewitt: Tables Immersion Room Downstairs Saving and retrieving images of artwork Return when you leave

How to read a label? This graphic will help you to interpret each object. Place the pen on the Collect Icon to save the information to the Cooper Hewitt website https://collection.cooperhewitt.org/visits Where you will retrieve your images. * Note: As a back up take photos with you phone if you have one because sometimes things go wrong with their website!

Assignment requirements Things to think about… You must visit and answer all questions below: Be sure to read over questions before you go into the exhibits so that you know what you’re looking for Bring a pencil and something to lean on like a notebook – DO NOT USE THE WALLS OR FURNITURE IN THE MUSEUM TO LEAN ON WHEN WRITING! Save as many images of the artwork that you will be using in the assignment with the pen & your phone Activity # 1: Your Favorite Color Immersion Room – 2nd floor Activity #2: Through Anaglyph Covered Glasses – 2nd floor Activity #3: Functional Color – all exhibits Activity #4: Color & Mood in the Immersion Room – 2nd floor Activity #5: Color Walk – Creating a Visual Map – Outside in back garden courtyard

Activity #1 – Your Favorite Color You will need to search for your favorite color through out the exhibit Photograph 3 different works of art where your favorite color dominates – insert all 3 pictures Find a color wheel & locate the complimentary color to your favorite color – insert a picture of the color wheel Photograph 3 different works of art where you see the complimentary color is more dominant– insert all 3 pictures Select one of the 6 photographs & explain why your eye was drawn to this piece

Activity #2 – Through Anaglyph Covered Glasses – An anaglyph is two images superimposed and printed in different colors, producing a stereo effect when the photograph is viewed through correspondingly colored filters (3D glasses). Look at Bloom, a 3-D or anaglyph wallpaper designed by LuzElena Wood, in four different ways Describe what you see with both eyes open (without 3D glasses) Put the 3D glasses on and describe what you see with both eyes open Close your right eye and describe what changes Close your left eye and describe what changes

Activity #3 – Functional Color What does functional mean? Find a functional object with a distinctive color that was made before you were born. You may select an object from any exhibition in the museum. Insert a photo of it into your project Would the color make you more likely or less likely to purchase the product? What color would make this product more appealing to you and why? In 1959, Henry Dreyfus Associates introduced the Signature Princess Telephone in pale pink—a color they hoped would appeal to a newly discovered consumer demographic: teenage girls and young women.

Activity #3 – Research at home What ever work of art you select for Activity #3, when you’re at home typing up the assignment you must: Research and identify color trends from the decade it was made. Cite your sources What do you think the color says about the time in which it was made? Color trend predictor – Pantone https://www.pantone.com/pages/pantone.aspx?pg=21111&ca=90

Activity #4 – Color & Mood in the Immersion Room Color & Elements Hunt As you navigate through the museum, observe and document how color combines with other elements of design (line, texture, shape, form, space, value) in works of art to create a response or a mood. Use your phone to take three pictures of works you observe. When you arrive in the Immersion Room on the second floor, you will use color plus two other elements to create an original design for Immersion Room wallpaper that will create a mood of anxiety or relaxation. Take a photograph of yourself covered in your wallpaper pattern. Insert the image into our project. Describe the color and other elements that you used to create your wallpaper. Which mood did you create? Why do you think it was successful at conveying either anxiety or relaxation?

Activity #5 – Color Walk Creating a Visual Map Before leaving the museum please go outside and visit the garden where you will find an exhibit that lines the sidewalk with strips of colors. These colors were gathered by the Color Factory creative team, who walked 265 blocks – from the northern tip of the island at 220th Street down to Battery Park – recording colors they discovered on the way. After you complete your visit to the museum, you will go on your own “Color Walk”, capturing images of color with your cell phone/camera. You can walk around NYC; walk the streets of Scarsdale village or even your own backyard. These bits of color can be of anything you find appealing. You will need to collect enough imagery to make up the spectrum of the color wheel - a minimum of 12, including the primaries, secondaries, and tertiaries. You will then turn these images into a visual map. The map must be an original design and you will need to include the imagery you captured on your color walk. The visual map may take the form of a video, a poster, or a mixed media piece. You will also need to pick a sample of color from each image and create a swatch of color to be placed above or below the image on the map.

Label your swatch of color & image with the location http://www.colorfactory.co/manhattancolorwalk

Last but not least… Spun Chair, 2010; Designed by Thomas Heatherwick Interactive Body Screens