At a certain point in my career I learned to stop being afraid of color. I know that may seem to be an odd statement, because why would anyone be afraid of color. If I am being entirely honest, I was not so much afraid of color as cautious about it. My approach to all things design is somewhat along the lines of a saying that is associated with medicine: “First do no harm.” If I cannot make things better by my contribution to a project I will most certainly not make them worse. I believe that my reticence when it came to color was because I was concerned about creating unintended problems for a production by virtue of my color choices and so I played it safe. What I was too inexperienced to realize at the time was that “safe” ...

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