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Color, Particles,
andSensory Spaces
Mere color, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with denite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand
different ways.
—Oscar Wilde
7.1 THE IMPACT OF COLOR AND THE POWER OF PARTICLES
Color is like dynamite: It must be handled carefully. If used thoughtfully, color will clarify and reveal your
designs’ forms and internal meanings. If used carelessly, it will undermine and collapse the design composi-
tion by diverting the visitor’s eye and fracture the underlying harmony of form and pattern. That said, some-
times as a designer, you do want visual pandemonium. If you really want to blow things up, particl