Materials
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Color in Craft: How Materials Determine What Color Can Do
In craft, the material is always primary. Clay, fiber, wood, glass, and metal each have inherent color properties that constrain and enable what is possible. Understanding material color — not just applied color — changes how you work with both physical and digital materials.
Color in Architecture: How Buildings Are Colored and Why It Matters
Architecture uses color differently from any other design discipline. Materials impose color; light transforms it hourly. Understanding how built color works reveals why some cities feel alive and others feel dead, and what designers can take from architecture into other fields.
Earth Pigments: The Colors That Made Art History
For most of human history, color was ground from stone, earth, and mineral. The specific pigments available in a place and period constrained what artists could make and what audiences learned to find beautiful. A materials history of color, from ochre to ultramarine.