Finishing.

Beginnings of my book to go alongside Chroma. I am going to create the pages by printing each page in squares and create a Ishihara style layout. Each page of the book will use mounting corners and then I will design semicircles to be placed over to make it more secure and give it the right shape and effect.

One more day and I will be ready to add the typography to Chroma....

second day of making

Today the shelves went in, each shelving unit will hold a particular colour from the hue pattern. Tomorrow will be more sanding ans spray painting, it will all be painted white and will include black labelling.

I also purchased two colour lenses that will help the colour blind determine colours from each other to make it easier to put socks away.

Started building today...

The design is now focused on one item of clothing, socks!

I made this decision because the original wardrobe size was becoming too big and expensive, this allows me to make it myself while still getting the same design process across.

T-shirt dying

I have started to dye the T-shirts that will be placed inside the wardrobe.

... now just 200 to go....

Chroma

... a very possible name for the wardrobe

Chroma, measured radially from the center of each slice, represents the “purity” of a color



I have also started dying shirts ready to display in the wardrobe, i want them to be displayed in a similar style to that of uniqlo

Type possibility

These letters will be laser cut into black card.

Rotadrobe is just a possible name for the wardrobe but mainly just to practice type!

design ideas for booklet

My initial requirement for the booklet that will accompany the wardrobe is that it is colourblind friendly.

Because there are different types of colour blindness I want to make the leaflet colours interchangeable.

Using Black as the main colour (as all people with colour vision deficiency can determine other colours from black), I want to create a laser cut book that has an interchangeable background colour. The text will all be cut using a laser cutter, inspiration from this invitation invite I have found for a fashion show...








Another design idea would be to use the layout for the Ishihara colour blind test book. this will allow me to use some laser cutting but will also let me include diagrams, photography etc...

Movement of the wardrobe in Model form

Design development

Review of the project:

Outcomes
A user guide designed to base the structure of the wardrobe around the colours of visual difficulty, using the colour
wheel as a structural guide. I want the wardrobe to resemble a grid-like structure in context with the colour wheel.
The guide will sit inside the wardrobe along with a labeling system and a key coded without the use of colour.

* Good to view determination and progress since reconsidering the practicality of an apps solution. I presume that the research phase of the project is now completed in order to work towards the design and realisation of outcomes.
My advice is that you now detail layout, type and image styling as a dedicated process on your blog in order to ensure
that it is highly visual and now not reliant on extensive copy. Good if you could also consider the context your user
guide, in location and practical use etc.

I have started designing the final outcome, with the help of a graduate Interior and spacial designer, and have also been in contact with a furniture maker.

The inspiration for the shape design for my wardrobe came from this 'micro' house design by Luigi Colani and Hanse haus in which the bedroom, kitchen and bathroom are set on a circular pivot that can be turned around depending on which room is needed. This design was created for use in a small space, but has distinct uses for each individual compartment. I want my wardrobe to have a similar method, to separate colour to allow organisation.








Today I made a model, a 20th to scale, of the wardrobe to work out the measurements, it went very successfully. I also showed the model to the furniture designer who said that it is very do-able, I now need to get some technical drawings created to give to the furniture maker.

Defining a colour chart and direction towards outcome

From the research I have done on colour blindness affecting a patients ability to organise their wardrobe and dress themselves in non-clashing colours, I have decided to design and make a colour gridded wardrobe especially structured and labelled to allow the colourblind to be able to dress in non clashing colours.

I want to base the structure of the wardrobe around the colours of visual difficulty, using the colour wheel as a structural guide. I want the wardrobe to resemble a grid-like structure in context with the colour wheel.

I will design a user guide that will sit inside the wardrobe along with a labelling system and a key coded without the use of colour.



The next step of my development involves me defining the exact colour differences between a regular sighted person and a colour deficient person.

The different types of colour blindness are:

Monochromats
Monochromats I: people with no functioning cones; people with this deficiency have problems with daylight, because it is too bright for them; they also lack visual acuity
Monochromats II: people with only one variety of the cones functioning in addition to the rods; both types of monochromats see colors only as variations in intensity, that, is analog to black-and-white or unicolored images
Dichromats: People with only one malfunctioning cone system
Protanopia: malfunctioning in the red cone system; typically only two (yellow, blue) or three colors (yellow, blue, purple) can be distinguished - yellow comprises red, orange, yellow, and green, blue coincides with blue and purple
Deuteranopia: malfunctioning in the green cone system; green cannot be distinguished from certain combinations of red and blue; this is the most common type of color deficiency
Tritanopia: malfunctioning of the blue cone system; longer wavelengths appear as red and the shorter ones as bluish-green; this color deficiency is very rare

New focus

So upset, the app idea isn't working for me as there are very similar examples and it will cost too much to make, I have re-directed my project and want to focus more on colour in relation to design.

From earlier research and from visiting the hospital, what really interested me was the hue test that could be taken to determine exact forms of colour blindness.






This is the farnsworth-Munsell 100-hue test ... (with only 85 chips)
It comprises of an array of chips of different colour which have to be sequenced. The colours are approximately evenly spaced around the colour circle, and colour-deficient patients make specific errors in the sequencing of the chips.


This got me thinking more about the placement of colour. And how the problems lie within having similar colours relating to each other.




I have been looking at a rubik's cube today as a possible outcome, the game heavily depends on the player being able to determine the different colours. There are... wait for it... 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 ways of arranging the squares, and only one of these is the solution. So it's a massive challenge to work it out completely on your own, and ESPECIALLY if the colours look similar shades.



I want to recreate the rubik's cube idea of matching colours in Graphics.