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Colors are aesthetically pleasing. I never considered colors to have a specific meaning, feeling or mood therefore i found todays assignment, “Your inner response to colours” quite interesting. After doing the assignment and then reading over the hand out package i was suprised to find similar discriptions of the colors because i didn’t realize how universal colours are. Puzzling together a fun color scheme for a room is fun, but i now realize that the colors have an impact. In applying this lesson to design i think i will learn to take note of colors, and question why they were chosen or why they don’t set the desired mood.

 Also quoted in the handout “In ancient times…he expected colors to protect him on earth, guide him safely to heaven, and symbolize the majesty of the universe.” This quote stuck out to me because it shows how society has changed. Colours used to be viewed as having very serious meanings, and now these meanings are overlooked or rarely considered in everyday life.

I really enjoyed Jae’s presentation of the first house he designed for a client. I was shocked at the difficulty level of the house. All of the considerations of light, direction of light, space requirements, measuring the individuals abilities opened my eyes to the reason for design. Up until now when being in a house i think about the layout, accessability, how the different spaces relate to eachother, and the feeling i get in different rooms, but i have never thought about the reason for the design. Design is not all about aesthetics or comming up with something new and fresh, creating a new trend or look. A pretty design without functionality is useless. Lesson learned.