Yeah, I definitely agree that we could use color a lot better in
these patches. I would like to see you propose something based on
these ideas. Constructivism + Paulo Freire would be a very
interesting combo.

As for the template approved today, I think that's just the first
step. I am sure there will be improvements and changes as we start
applying it to real world situations. So color could be added as well.

Here's a screenshot for those who weren't in the meeting today. I'll
be making a usable template over the next couple days, then I'll
announce it.

http://puredata.org/dev/pddp/pddp-drafts/template-12-grab.png/ image_view_fullscreen

.hc

On Sep 18, 2007, at 7:13 AM, pueblo@mail.ljudmila.org wrote:

hola,

I am following this reference templates discussion because I'm
interested in the pd documentation project. I have only some side comments about colors, I think -if used, colors should be kept to accentuate content. This was said before but also in my view pd objects in reference patches should not be colored. I do think that colors help to remember things so it would be
helpful to use them in order to remember families of objects or other
categories. I did some exercise using colors to emphasize sections, making minor changes to template 9 from Ben - In order to have some constraint to choose I used a color palette -I borrowed filterbank~
colors for this.

http://ljudmila.org/~pueblo/box/constructivism/template9_a.png

previous try: http://ljudmila.org/~pueblo/box/constructivism/template7_aaa.png http://ljudmila.org/~pueblo/box/constructivism/color_palette.png

It is only an exercise I just wanted to note that the decision of
using colors is sensitive, we associate many things to them and this becomes important when you are learning. I specially have problems with the use of gray which I associate
with the obvious gray skies, pigeons and dictatorship (chilean style)

I'm not a graphic designer but I sense some relation between pd and constructivism/suprematism so this could also be an inspiration
for color and form...

http://ljudmila.org/~pueblo/box/constructivism/malevich-st-1916.jpg http://ljudmila.org/~pueblo/box/constructivism/lissitzky- mayakovsky.jpg http://ljudmila.org/~pueblo/box/constructivism/rodchenko-mayak- nipple.jpg http://www.poster.net/malevich-kasimir/malevich-kasimir-black- rectangle-blue-triangle-1915-3500626.jpg

thanks for the good work and hope to join you in the chat discussion in some hours from now.

best wishes, alejandra

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