For my presentation I have decided to look at how colour changes everything. What I really wanted to focus on throughout the presentation was examples of how colour changes everything and why colour changes everything.
This was only my practice presentation and I fee my first attempt went really well and hopefully my feedback will be able to give me some good pointes of how I can improve my slides and my presentation skills.
Colour is an unusual factor that people don’t really
consider in their daily lives. There is
more to colour than red, green and blue as it has the power to persuade, it can
affect/inflict emotions, it can be a form of identity and even change a person’s
appearance.
An example of this is associating gender with a colour
mainly in younger children. In the
beginning children’s gender was not really considered important as in the 1800s
and early 1900’s children were dressed up in white neutral colours until the
age of 6.
This is a competition that showed up in the early 1900's for Mellin's Food Babies and they asked people if they can name the gender of all 20 images. This was really successful in my opinion as no one was able to guess all 20 right which shows clearly that gender was not really considered important.
Pink and blue arrived as colours for babies in the mid-19th century. Today boys and girls dressing the same is frowned upon as babies today are gendered, named and even clothed with the appropriate colours even before they are even born. Babies are only seen as neutral in the first few weeks of a woman’s pregnancy before gender is found out.
What if it was the other way round and pink was for boys and
blue for girls. The reason is that pink
being a more decided and stronger colour, is more suitable for the boy, while
blue which is more delicate and prettier for girls.
Blue for blonds & pink for brunettes
Blue for blue eyes & pink for brown eyes.
Gender marketing is where companies are using colour to aim certain products to certain children, Blue for boys and pink for girls. You can see in this image how much it has grown today.
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