PC/Mac/Linux CDROM (Powerpoint, Keynote, Quicktime, Flash)

Where do you begin to design the rooms in which you live? How about asking “what colors do I want to live with?” But how do you put them together in a pleasing way? How can you tell which colors harmonize and which clash like warring relatives? Learn how to use colors like a pro to create beautiful color schemes for interiors.

Viewers use the well over 100 photographs in Color For Interior Design to teach themselves the basics of color in interior design.

Users will learn:

• The most foolproof color scheme—how to work with a single color.
• Using complementary colors to create planned harmony.
• The value of neutral colors.
• Harmony among related or analogous colors.
• How to inspire a color theme using a painting.
• Using the color wheel to design.
• How to use shades, tints, and varying color values in a color scheme.
• How to use bold colors and high contrast.
• How color can makes rooms feel larger or smaller, warmer or cooler.
• Watch as we take an entire house from bare walls and decorate it in a unified color scheme.
• Examine dozens of rooms and learn how colors work together to create livable environments.

Students can use Color For Interior Design at their own pace or teachers can use it for classroom presentations – a very flexible learning tool.

Copyright 2006 Learning Seed

Buy all three Design Powercourse CDRoms and save $30!

Buy all three Design Powercourse CDRoms and save $30!

These easy-to-use CDs contain a self-paced multimedia slideshow with curriculum-based information. Compatible with Mac and PC.
Set includes:

Styles of American Furniture
Copyright 2009 Learning Seed

Fifty-five slides showcase American furniture and teach the vocabulary of style and design.

Visual Design Basics
Copyright 2006 Learning Seed

Over 100 photos and drawings teach the fundamentals of visual literacy.

Color For Interior Design
Copyright 2006 Learning Seed

More than 100 photos illustrate and explain the basics of color in interior design.

PC/Mac/Linux CDROM (Powerpoint, Keynote, Quicktime, Flash)

Visual Design Basics is a primer in visual literacy. It teaches the true fundamentals of visual design in seven sections: lines, shapes, angles and curves, rhythm, proportion and scale, balance, and groups and colors.

Users learn that even a simple line “speaks” and that horizontal, vertical, and diagonal lines each send differing emotional messages. Visual design is not about following rules; it’s all about emotions.

What does a square mean? What is the message of a rectangle? Does a square room “feel” different than a rectangular room? Why are most books, printed pages, rugs, photographs, and video screens rectangles instead of squares?

What is the “feeling” and “meaning” differences between an angle and a curve? How does this relate to visual design for products, fashion, architecture, and interiors?

Viewers know they like rhythm in music, but what about visual rhythm? How do you give rooms, fashion, or products “a beat” the eyes can dance to? Viewers learn the “secret” of rhythm -- repetition with variety.

What is a motif and how can it be used in design for clothing and room interiors?

See how proportion, balance, and scale are part of any visual design from public monuments to dining rooms.

Visual Design Basics contains well over a hundred photographs and drawings that teach the basics of visual literacy. Students can use the program at their own pace or teachers can use it for classroom presentations – a very flexible learning tool.

Copyright 2006 Learning Seed

Buy all three Design Powercourse CDRoms and save $30!