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AZIZA HAU-LOK LO
works
COLOURSPACE
book design, colour, research project
Narrativity in colour from facades to graphic space
"How can colour be a tool to tell stories?
How can we speak through colour?"
Overview
My project explores how colour can be a storytelling element in graphic design by finding inspiration from facade colours around Helsinki. I try to put in parallel the experience of walking around architecture and the visual process of reading, and developed the approach called ‘colourspace,’ which is to see and curate colours holistically as a space instead of individual entities.
The book includes the insight from my thesis research and also colour observations from Helsinki facades in relation to graphic design.
The book is separated into three sections, using the colours of the three Helsinki areas to showcase how colour can carry three storytelling elements: sequence, action, and motion.
I produced multiple graphic compositions inspired by the facade colours of four neighbourhoods in Helsinki, namely Punavuori, Taka-Töölö, Kannelmäki and Pikku-Huopalahti, in which I painted with Gouache trying to visualize the colour sequence, movement of colour, and also colour maps or the respective neighborhoods.
Book highlights
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