Color is a powerful tool in design because it gives design variety and adds beauty and life to the design. Without color, everything would either be black or white.
The above image shows a glass sculpture beautified by the colorful lighting it displays. If the colors were to be gone, all we would see is the regular clear glass and the sculpture with no magnificent appeal to it. But adding colors gives us a whole different view because “without color, il disegno may be called a body without a soul,” quoting from Marco Boschini. The colors established here range from primary colors of blue, yellow, and red to other colors created as a result of mixing. But the sculpture doesn’t display just one form of color. There is a wide range of values for these colors, and because these colors are displayed through lighting, the value effect is even greater. But the colors that we see all comes from white light because it is what contains all the colors of the spectrum. If white stands alone, there won't be much to look at, but white is also important because it creates all the other colors that we see. While white generates value changes that makes a color lighter, black also helps create values as it makes a color darker. The blue light in the sculpture, for example, exhibits both light and dark values of blue, and is what brings diversity into a single form of color.
Designs do not need to exhibit colors, but colors can transform the design to make it look appealing. In design society today, almost everything have some form of color, whether it adds to variety or beautifies the product.
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