1. March 6, 2017
Entry task: What is your favorite color? What is your favorite color to wear? Are they different or the same? Why?
Target: Observe how colors can communicate feelings.

2. October 13, 2015
Entry task: Describe what the following colors communicate:
Red
Yellow
Blue
Green
Target: Observe how colors can communicate feelings.

3. Clue in on Color Fashion Strategies
You need to be wearing your shirts.
As you advance to each slide, turn on some fun music, and take you shirt off to reveal the next color. (Be careful when you get down to the last one!)

6. Blue Cool Color Suggests respect, responsibility, authority
Needs a relief color
Tranquilizing
Elongate time
Favorite color
Poor color around food

10. Red Hot, exciting, stimulating Highly emotional
Raises blood pressure, pulse and heart rate
Cellular reaction in heart and lungs
Stimulate appetite
Pay more
Lose track of time
Red increases energy and boosts confidence
High end Restaurants are usually decorated in red
Men prefer a red-orange red and women prefer a red-violet red

13. Yellow Requires the most visual processing Cheerful, warm, inviting
Stimulate memory
“Value for Money”
Eat faster
Loose your temper quicker
Baby’s cry more
Yellow stimulates your nervous system and activates your memory
Yellow is a good color for tests to be taken on

17. Green Peaceful, relaxation, serenity Easiest for the eye to see
High socio-economic status
Natural
Cool color closest to warm
Green is a good color for guest rooms

21. Black Mysterious Positive and negative effects
Dignity, solemnity, formality
Mourning, sorrow, depression
Power, strong authority when combined with white
Limited positive response in décor
Reinforces the color it touches, powerful accent
Wearing black could mean you're authoritative and timeless, chic

25. White Delicate, refined Symbol of purity, chastity, cleanliness
All white feels empty or forced
Soften edges between colors
Encourages precision
Clarity, openness and brightness
Aids with mental clarity

29. Gray/Grey Work longer Creativity More artistic Chameleon
Needs accent colors
Strong prejudice against grey (either love it or hate it)
Grey can take on the color of what is next to it.
People tend to be more creative when they are working on a grey surface
Students tend to remember more when they take notes on gray paper
People either love or hate gray

33. Brown Homelike, masculine Warmth, snug, secure Universal Strength
Listener
Positive food associations
Less intensive behavioral response

37. Violet Stronger versions are called purple Uncertainty
Royalty, dignity
Women generally accept universally
Seen as artistic and expressive

41. Pink Sweet Can be calming Intensifies when applied Feminine
Good accent clothing color, not as well used overall in clothing
Emotional control

44. Orange Declassifying Informality Stimulating Inexpensive
Good around fast food
Shares some qualities of red, slightly reduced

46. Color of the Year! MARSALA Any guesses?
Pantone’s 2015 Color of the Year is….
MARSALA

47. COLOR QUIZ!
Get out a sheet of paper…you may NOT use notes!

48. Is this better? You create the quiz on color. You may use your notes
It must be:
Multiple Choice, true or false, matching or fill in the blank
Minimum 15 questions
Answer key
If time allows, give the quiz to the person next to you.