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Color and value in design

By Tien Chiu | Published: May 5, 2011

I spent some time this morning messing around in Photoshop, confirming a lot of things I’d read about color theory.  I played with hue (colors), value (lightness/darkness), and chroma (saturation), and produced about twenty new samples.  I won’t post them all, but here are some of the most instructive ones: First, value matters a lot, [...]

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…and, the pop-up

By Tien Chiu | Published: December 8, 2010

I was going to put all sorts of fiber arts stuff in the background, but realized that would only distract from the central figure.  I also decided to switch to quilting (ironically, one of the few fiber arts I have NOT particularly enjoyed) because it would allow me to insert the self-referential tangram figure as [...]

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Covers

By Tien Chiu | Published: December 7, 2010

As you can see, I had a lot of fun with the front cover: (The head of the figure is gilded with 24K gold leaf, a leftover from my egg art days.) The back cover is similar, only simpler: I’m kind of tempted to put curtains on the back of the book and show the [...]

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Pages 1-6, complete

By Tien Chiu | Published: December 6, 2010

I explained pages 1-4 already, and some of page 5.  The narrative for page 6 is all about transformation: after sneaking past the stop sign and going down the artistic path, the figure finds itself magically transformed into a real person (a flamenco dancer, no less), dancing down the red carpet.  (I know it looks [...]

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Things are popping…

By Tien Chiu | Published: December 5, 2010

Since my pin-up girl days (yes, that’s really me on the cover of that magazine, and no, I’m not wearing anything except body paint ) are over, I guess I’ll have to settle for being a pop-up girl: I’m actually pretty pleased with my pop-up girl, even in this rough version.  I mixed and matched [...]

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