pic ’n’ mix taxonomy

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colour preferenceAs an introduction to taxonomy and to explore different ideas and aspects we adapted Richard Saul Wurman’s classification theory,The LATCH system; Location, Alphabetical,Time, Category & Hierarchy.

For the initial exercise we explored different ways to display, record and catalogue sweets. Using categories to organise the sweets such as size, shape, colour and taste preference, for example, we displayed and photographed our findings. We then decided to document the sweets using axes with a series of variables to do with the texture and shape of the sweets such as human, animal, organic and geometric.

We found colour to influence our choice and preference of sweets. Warm coloured sweets were not only the majority in the colour scheme, but they were also the ones that went missing the quickest showing us that sweets of a warm colour were popular with in the group. We arranged the sweets into various categories and found the results from the taste, texture and aesthetics axis again to have the orange, yellow and red to be the dominant colours.

Warm coloured sweets were more popular with in the group.„“