Goal

The goal of this exer­cise is to under­stand the media spe­cific attrib­utes of addi­tive and sub­trac­tive color in the pro­duc­tion environment.

Objective

The objec­tive is to cre­ate sim­i­lar RGB and CMYK ver­sions of Joseph Albers’ fig­ure-ground rel­a­tiv­ity of color project.

Background

• Under­stand­ing Josef Alber’s Inter­ac­tion of Colour https://​www​.har​ri​etleemer​rion​.com/​b​l​o​g​/​2​0​2​2​/​1​/​1​8​/​u​n​d​e​r​s​t​a​n​d​i​n​g​-​j​o​s​e​f​-​a​l​b​e​r​s​-​i​n​t​e​r​a​c​t​i​o​n​-​o​f​-​c​o​l​our
• Kelly, Exer­cise 7, http://​www​.rit​.edu/​l​i​b​r​a​r​y​/​a​r​c​h​i​v​e​s​/​r​k​e​l​l​y​/​h​t​m​l​/​0​4​_​c​o​u​/​c​o​u​_​c​o​l​5​.​h​tml
• Josef Albers https://​en​.wikipedia​.org/​w​i​k​i​/​J​o​s​e​f​_​A​l​b​ers

Exercise:

Cre­ate an 11 x 17 in CMYK doc­u­ment in Adobe Illus­tra­tor using the pro­vided tem­plate. Using the color palette, edit the file to cre­ate a com­po­si­tion in which the same cen­ter color appears as two on dif­fer­ent back­grounds. On the sec­ond set of squares, cre­ate a com­po­si­tion in which two dif­fer­ent col­ors appear the same. Care­fully doc­u­ment these color spec­i­fi­ca­tions on the template.

Repeat the steps above using a new doc­u­ment set in RGB mode. Do not resave the file and con­vert it, but reap­prox­i­mate the col­ors from the beginning.

Save both files as PDFs and place them in the appro­pri­ate D2L drop­box. Print both files as well.

• The fol­low­ing rubric posted on D2L will deter­mine exer­cise score: Exer­cise Grading

Materials

com­puter, Adobe Illus­tra­tor, Acro­bat Dis­tiller, tem­plate files