Tone and Color

While this may not look like the most colorful and tonal object, I feel like those particular features on this item might be easily overlooked. This is the HTC touch diamond. I encountered this item when I happened to meet a friend of mine who has it. When I held it in my hand, I immediately played around with the indented circle at the bottom center of the phone. Looking at the device, there is a certain tonal feature to that particular area and it is done by natural lighting. The shape of it just tends to capture light at different angles and what you see is a shape that encompasses light and darkness. Catching light in one angle will cause darkness at another. You can't quite say that the look of it alone represents its dimension because it not only expresses dimension but in that its indented, it is itself dimension. That lighting effect, shows that there is an apparent inward direction. And as its slightly popping forward, shows theres an outward direction as well (can only slightly see with shown picture). This shows its dimension and allows you to realize its something to interact with being 3d. With regards to color, shown are the windows symbol which is a very identifiable icon (red, green, blue, and yellow at top left, incase it was necessary to point out) and a simple green circular dot (with a '1' in it) appearing over the bottom of a message icon. Immediately, I know the windows icon (with 'start' next to it) is how I would access deeper features of the phone. Also, that I have 1 (text/email) message. There is so much meaning that follows the presence of color that I can see with a simple glimse at this phone. Color in addition to shape (the shape of the window symbol and the fact that there is the shape of a message symbol under that of the dot of green) unify to create an abundance of meaning. The shape defines the color in order to create an overall symbol with which we would make out a meaning for.