COLOUR
AuthorByron
23 December 2010
I know you need it, so why not plaster it everywhere you go, and just for the sake of it, why not make it chromo-specific? This new wallpaper concept from Carnovsky, RGB is intense and beautiful.
Francesco Rugi and Silvia Quintanilla, who are Carnovsky, have sprung forth on the design-related blogosphere with this intriguing project, which layers three distinct images on surfaces through the red, green and blue spectrum. In natural light they appear as frantic and oddly balanced splashes of colour and line, but as pictured below, can be isolated with targeted lighting to reveal beautiful and varied atmospheres.
Obviously the results are pretty intense in terms of keeping your ocular rods and cones in equilibrium, but I love the revelation of form and image from each respective lighting condition.
The RGB project inspires greatness and great madness.
Carnovsky explain:
RGB’s technique consists in the overlapping of three different images, each one in a primary color. The resulting images from this three level’s superimposition are unexpected and disorienting. The colors mix up, the lines and shapes entwine becoming oneiric and not completely clear. Through a colored filter (a light or a transparent material) it is possible to see clearly the layers in which the image is composed. The filter’s colors are red, green and blue, each one of them serves to reveal one of the three layers.
Below, matching views of the RGB project.

RGB

B

R

G
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