Although unorthodox, do you think that Michael Worthington's way of ordering his CD's (by the color of the jewel box spine and its place in the spectrum) should be considered good design system?
(personal opinion, I think that it depends upon the amount of people using the system, so in this case, it's his personal CD collection, so he understands how it works, but it might not work on the scale of a larger audience.)
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I would say that it depends on who uses his system. If you are designing a system for interior designers to whom aesthetics are of utmost importance, I guess it would work.
Another thought, what if the colors actually correspond to the type of music inside the case? Maybe cool colors are for easy listening, warm colors are for hard rock. May not be the most efficient classification, but if it makes sense to him . . .
I think it works for a specific audience. If people already know who he is and what his music is like then it would work because they would just call the CD by color rather than title.
And for the people that did not know him, such as me, I do not know if I would actually buy the CD, but I would definitely pick it up and want to know more about it.
I don't not think that it works at all. If you were to walk up to it and try and find an artist that you like you would not know where to look unless you knew the color of their cd. What would happen if multiple cds have same color covers then you would have to pull them out and read the titles. I like your idea about corresponding the color with the type of music. That makes more sense but if you just use color with no relation to music then it makes no sense to categorize them that way.
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