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Designing Color for Products in Motion

I just concluded my first session of product testing. I made a prototype pair of pants and one arm guard based on the drawings from my last post. These were quick mock ups to gauge two things, how do the colors affect the way people watch the tricks? and how well do the 3D color patterns protect the body. This video that I put on YouTube documents the testing.



I am also including photos of the pants so that you can see how the color changes as they rotate in front of you. The front of the pants are dark purple with bright accents at the knees, because that is an important point of complex motion during the execution of tricks. as you rotate around there is a corresponding color shift. The back of the pants are a lower intensity purple and there is almost no color accent at the back. The padding on both sides is also different to differentiate the two sides of the body, so that when the rider rotates quickly in front of you there is an alternation of colors adding exhilaration to the trick.