Vacuumed into Design

 I've always liked colors since I can remember, but it wasn't until my second year in college that I realized I didn't understand color. Being attracted to an object or even just certain color but not understand it's origins, process, or story, is one of the amazing aspects design because of because if you make the effort to do the research, you can follow the lines of production all the way to when it was just a spark in the artist's mind.  If you make an effort to open its doors, everything will hit you like a brick to the face. After taking a Design and Color Theory class at my junior college, color is important to me as much as the object itself. The one object that finally sucked me into the design world was a couch titled, “Pixel Couch” by Cristian Zuzunaga, that I found on TheCoolHunter.Net.

The Pixel Couch is a blocky couch that consists of rounded right angles, big and thick frame, and thin cushions. I've never sat on the couch myself so I wouldn't know if the cushions are either thick and heavy or light and soft, but the design of the couch's structure makes me want to not only sit on the cushions where it is appropriate but also either on the armrests, the back side of the couch, wherever. This couch can be used as an 'all-over' couch.

The one characteristic of the couch that really had me sold was design of the pattern on the couch, as well as the colors chosen to represent this couch. Multiple colors were used on this couch and the simplistic design of different colored pixels all over the couch made me realize design doesn't have to be one single color, or even a combination of two or three colors; just as long as it looked and felt “right” to the artist and hopefully to their audience or consumers as well. Feeling “right” can either be being balanced, extract the aimed emotions, or just feeling finished.  What might look like a random splash of colors on a couch in the shape of squares all actually have some type of connection related to color theory. This couch was the single object that made me want to get into the design and show the world what makes me feel right through the objects or rooms i design myself.

Evans, Lisa. "The Cool Hunter - Christian Zuzunaga - Mr Pixel." The Cool Hunter - Welcome. 5 Mar. 2009. Web. 05 Oct. 2010. <http://www.thecoolhunter.net/article/detail/1248/christian-zuzunaga--mr-pixel>.