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What does this chart seem to be representing?.Have you seen a chart like this before?.Display Image 1 – The Color Wheel, and tell students that the foundation of color theory is represented in the color wheel.Tell students that today they will be examining the role color theory plays in creating visual designs.After completing the handout, have students volunteer to discuss their answers. Distribute Handout 1 – Musician Fashion.Are there any colors you won’t put together? Why?.Do you feel any combinations look particularly well on you?.Do you consider the combinations of colors you wear?.When you get dressed in the morning, how do you choose the various pieces of your outfit?.They then draw upon the color wheel as a tool to design their own album covers. In this lesson, students learn about the color theory, and use the color wheel to analyze musician fashion and album covers.

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His further investigations led to the creation of the principles of color theory, which today remains an essential tool for artists and designers alike. Through these experiments, he demonstrated that light is responsible for creating color. In the 1660s, English mathematician, astronomer and scientist Sir Isaac Newton began experimenting with light by holding a prism against a window. The Dark Side of the Moon album cover is a reference to a scientific discovery that has influenced visual artists for centuries. The design, created by Storm Thorgerson and Aubrey Powell of the London-based photography and design collective Hipgnosis (with help from George Hardie), has been printed on the packaging of over 50 million recordings, and some suggest more than a billion people have laid eyes upon it. The cover of Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon is one of the most celebrated pieces of album artwork and commercial art ever created. It’s just an image–there’s no sound involved–yet it has become a visual icon of Rock music. It descends at an even pace until it passes beyond the right border of the canvas and vanishes just as mysteriously as it appeared. Then, from a source unknown, a beam of light shoots in from the left, hitting the triangle at such a precise upward angle that it miraculously travels through it, spilling out the other side in a perfect rainbow of color. A shape is added-three slender white lines merging to form a triangle. It had been an overcast day but by the time we reached the Lincoln Building the sun had sunk below the clouds and then the Empire State Building turned on the green lights while we were shooting.It starts with a black canvas. I couldn’t believe The Strokes agreed to try a second rooftop but it worked out perfectly. Pre 9/11 it was pretty easy to sneak up on roofs. "So I did the same thing that day I found the stairwell and walked up to the roof. Once I asked to use their bathroom and saw that the view was amazing from the window in there. I was often late with my rent and would hand-deliver my cheques to them. I used to live in a building owned by Helmsley Spear (of Leona Helmsley fame) and their offices were on the top floor of The Lincoln Building. The Lincoln Building is right across the street from Grand Central and I think it’s 55 stories tall. I felt like an asshole but I knew one more roof to go to. There was some employee taking a cigarette break. "There were huge red letters spelling out the name of the hotel that you could climb up to if you wanted, but when I took The Strokes up there for the first time I got busted.











Album covers