Hi Soror, thanks for your comment - glad you liked the post!

Apologies for the use of the word 'manipulated', looking back on it I can see how it sounds contrived. I understand what you mean though, I perhaps wrongly assumed that all art is designed to be shared. But presumably the ones you chose to share are the one's you expect your audience to be able understand? Maybe it is only designers who create for function, that manipulate.

As for what you said about shape, colour, etc. stirrring certain archetypal emotions - I agree in as much as there are basic physiological mechanisms common to us all that respond in certain ways to certain things. There are neurons that fire only when presented with lines of a particular orientation, for example. Whether what we deduce from these basic mechanisms is universal though, I'm not so sure. In Western society the colour red is associated with danger and anger, yet in China it's a lucky colour associated with good fortune. And if you were from the Dani tribe of Papua New Guinea you wouldn't even acknowledge red as a distinct colour (it's lumped together with orange and yellow). Fortune, danger, and well... who knows, are meanings based on a person's cultural context, not due to any meaning intrinsic to red itself.

But like you said, this is my belief system and not an objective truth. I think that's a fair comment to make :-)

I've got just the case that will go well with that background. http://www.kirainet.com/english/food-iphone-4-cas...