Inspiration In Yellow

Inspiration in Yellow

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Inspiration in Yellow

Inpsiration comes in all sorts of forms and from any number of varying sources. It can move us to masterpieces, or simply stir us to smile. But can the source of inspiration, depending on it’s color, control how it inspires? Meaning, if the source of inspiration was primarily of a certain color, then would it inspire towards concepts or elements that are generally associated with that color? Can this kind of associative inspiration even be possible? Colors are chosen very carefully in design, due to the attachment of emotion and tone that they carry. So wouldn’t it follow that the same would be true of that colors presence in inspirational sources? That they would transfer these same emotive associations when acting to inspire?

In our new Inspiration in Color series we present a bit of an inspirational experiment. This is the third in the series of posts focused on images that are primarily of a singular selected color. Inspiration in Yellow, features a wide range of wonderful works from the design world aimed at doing two things. Inspiring you overall, but also seeing if that inspiration tends to steer towards aspects associated with the color yellow. joy, optimism, intelligence, idealism, hope, air, cowardice, hazards, dishonesty, femininity, friendship, are all common associations with the color yellow. So where will this inspiration lead? Only you can tell…

Photos

Felicita’s Alegria

ajpscs’ Ahead of Her Time

neloqua’s A wonderful day…

RedMagda’s Yellow

zuzu-cris’ Yellow Lady

gnato’s Yellow Life

tearsoft’s Yellow Bricked Road

toko’s Yellow

Yiorgos Yiacos’ Dousk - Kind of Human

Yar Rassadin’s Beehouse Lamp

NightAliveR’s Russo Bag - Lucy

Graphic Design

galligalli’s Yellow

Liester’s Liester In Yellow

Federico Schneider’s Sunset King Fish

Mirjam Luketic’s Zarek - Sunbeam

Sebas van den Brink’s A Yellow Signal

Matthias Bauerle’s CMYK

til01’s Life T-design

Adrian Knopik’s Illustrations

Foncati’s Museu da Casa Brasileira

Now it’s your turn

The challenge has now fallen to those inspired by the post. We have an Inspiration in Color flickr group that was created to host the images inspired from this series. When the series wraps up, we will be featuring a showcase of images that were submitted to the group, but only those that have been inspired by the posts. This will allow us to see if the artistic muses tend to move towards the themes of the different colors. It’s up to you, so let’s get inspired!

Inspiration in Color Series
Inspiration in Red
Inspiration in Orange
Inspiration in Yellow
Inspiration in Green
Inspiration in Blue
Inspiration in Purple
Inspiration in Neutral
Inspiration in Spectrum
User Submitted Showcase

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16 Comments »

Janko said:

Fantastic findings. “A wonderful day…”, “Yellow Bricked Road” and “Yellow Tail” wine are awesome!

# 1 November 2008 at 12:03 pm

Andrew Houle said:

Great finds. You know if anyone can appreciate inspiration in yellow, it’s me Thanks for including my site!

# 1 November 2008 at 2:21 pm

Angie Bowen said:

@Janko - Yellow Bricked Road is one of my favorites as well. And I just completely feel in love with Ahead of Her Time when I saw it!

@Andrew - No problem! And I figured you would like this one .

# 1 November 2008 at 4:30 pm

Alek said:

awesome. I love this stuff!

# 1 November 2008 at 5:33 pm

Zoonex said:

Great collection! I love yellow! Just take a look at my blog lol

# 1 November 2008 at 6:25 pm

Wayfaring Wanderer said:

Amazing collection! I love the bee hive styled items…..Awesome!

# 1 November 2008 at 6:53 pm

Ace Web Design said:

Good inspiration. Not often yellow is a base color for a site, so you did well to gather these. thanks

# 2 November 2008 at 4:39 pm

Jumping Dog Design said:

Inspirational collection. I love the yellow with the greys in Sebas van den Brink’s A Yellow Signal.

# 2 November 2008 at 5:23 pm

Robert Bowen (author) said:

Thanks everyone! Glad that this set has resonated with so many. Now let’s see some additions to the Flikr group! :p

Seriously though, good to know the series is landing with folks!

# 2 November 2008 at 6:14 pm

Mark said:

Awesome set! Looking forward to the other colors as well!

Marks last blog post..Sound-Unsound.com

# 2 November 2008 at 7:26 pm

Matt said:

Really liked “Ahead of Her Time” nice photo.

Great series guys, keep up the hard work!

# 3 November 2008 at 7:04 am

titoagur.to said:

Nice selection… its very inspirational.
greetings
Tithius

# 3 November 2008 at 7:54 am

kelly said:

Nice post. I’m normally so scared of yellow on the web because I’ve seen it used so poorly on a number of occasions. You’ve shows some really great examples though, so hopefully next time I won’t be scared ^_^

# 17 November 2008 at 3:45 pm