When searching "Black, White, and Red" on Google Images, I noticed that the first related search was "black white and red weddings". Apparently this is a thing. Red, I guess I understood, but black? Caivano and Lopez in "The Rhetoric of black, white, and red" offer one explanation; that is, that the combination of red and black has an elegant feel. 




Scanning through the images the search brought up, there were also quite a few images of flowers - like roses - and "black white and red flowers" was also listed as a related search. Besides these, there were some ads that were certainly using "the seduction of color advertising". 



A main theme I noticed in between these other themes was rather dark, artsy pictures. The women with white faces, black hair and red lips, the man in a white shirt and black suit with blood on his arm and a red tie, or even a black bunny zipping into a bloody white bunny costume (?!?). This mix of red dresses, guns, blood, and peonies on achromatic backgrounds is unsettling, to say the least. Definitely more of a Dracula feel than a Jesus Christ feel. I have to say that these things always bring me back to the cover design of Stephanie Meyer's "Twilight": pale arms, black background, and that one red, red apple. Vampires.










The color scheme for vampires is really too perfect. You think of a vampire and there is red blood, white skin, and black clothes. But you also think elegant, don't you? Seductive? They've got their methods for drawing in the women. And the portrayal of vampires with these colors adds to the seductiveness and elegance of them, does it not?


Maybe it's just what teen pop culture is in to right now, but this whole vampire craze affects more than just the sales of pointy fake teeth. It also affects how we might be viewing a color combination.
0

Add a comment

Trap. The combination of the genres of trance and rap usually through sound mixing and editing, has become a staple of parties and festival shows. They share similar use of synth, heavy base and spoken words to create music.
When we talked in class about usability and the internet, it sounded like the conclusion as to what makes a usable website is simplicity. Creating a website to serve a very obvious purpose is the key to usability.
Every day we are faced with multiple typefaces: the good, the bad and the ugly. Some help us to read faster and more clearly, some to invoke a specific feeling or emotion, all the while persuading us to do something (or buy something).
... and how clashing implications continue to shape our reactions to these colors.

Depending on the region and cultural upbringing, one may have different connotations associated with the colors black, white, and red.
When talking about the ethics and rhetoric of data displays in class, I brought up the example of geographic information system (GIS) and their technique of interpolation.
"The Cognitive Style of Powerpoint" makes the assertion that:

The core ideas of teaching- explanation, reasoning, finding

things out, questioning, content, evidence, credible authority not patronizing

authoritarianism-are contrary to the cognitive style of PowerPoint.
When I first pulled out Tufte's packet on Power Point, it looked like one of the most boring texts on the planet. 30 pages on the style of Power Point? But as I read, I started to see his point and even found myself laughing at certain parts (talking about the “stupefied audience”).
Since media technology has advanced past the typewriter, the capabilities of visual, and eventually digital, rhetoric using images have grown exponentially. By appealing to different human attitudes and emotions, digital images have the ability of persuasion and gaining compliance alike.
Often referred to as graffiti, tagging, or more negatively as vandalism, street-art has been around for 40ish years as it was birthed in the 70 but only gained a real popularity in the mid-80’s.
Blog Archive
Contributors
Loading
Dynamic Views theme. Powered by Blogger. Report Abuse.