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Ready… Set… Glow!…
Readers who have pending fashion purchases will be relieved to know that Pantone (“the world-renowned authority on color”) has announced the The Color of the Year for 2011: Honeysuckle (PANTONE...
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The color of money…
The increasingly rapacious and reactionary corporate attitude to intellectual property rights has been the subject of several posts over at Scenarios and Strategy (c.f., e.g., “Patently...
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Color me _____ …
Feeling _____? About to head out for a night on the town in _____? Then dress in _____! From Zoho:Lab, an interactive version of (R)D favorite David McCandless’ “Colours of Cultures“… click the...
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Arctic blue? That’s so yesterday…
Color Forecast relies on high-speed digital cameras placed in strategic fashion centers in Paris, Milan, and Antwerp to capture data 24/7 on what the cognescenti are wearing… that data is fed into a...
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“Each color lives by its mysterious life”*…
Inka Mathew, of Green Ink Studio, has a passion project, Tiny PMS Match… A personal project of tiny proportion—matching small everyday objects to their Pantone® colors… All pictures were taken with...
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“‘Tis not alone my inky cloak… Nor customary suits of solemn black”*…
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio used ivory black to convey asceticism, piety, and inspiration in his 1605-6 painting, St Jerome Writing. Suddenly, black was everywhere. It caked the flesh of miners...
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“The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love color the most”*…
click here for larger version For Lapham’s Quarterly‘s fashion issue, designer Haisam Hussein reinvents the color wheel to show where various shades of colors were invented—from Int’l Klein Blue...
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“The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love color the most”*…
A hand-colored explosion from INVENTOR CRAZYBRAINS AND HIS WONDERFUL AIRSHIP (1906) At the turn of the 20th century, a color revolution was sweeping across Europe and North America. The invention...
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“You cannot get a grip on blue… blue is sly, slick, it slides into the room...
Vermeer, Girl with a Pearl Earring, ca. 1665 Michelangelo couldn’t afford ultramarine. His painting The Entombment, the story goes, was left unfinished as the result of his failure to procure the...
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“All photographs are memento mori”*…
Tropical Street: tourists walking past shops and restaurants in a tropical setting, Hawaii, USA Many, many more glances at yesteryear at “Vintage Stock Photos“– all free. * Susan Sontag ### As we...
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“It’s a beautiful day in this neighborhood”*…
Back in 2011, on his blog devoted to all things Mister Rogers, neighborhoodarchive.com, Tim Lybarger recorded the color of every sweater Rogers wore in each episode between 1979 and 2001. “When I...
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“The color of fire and sunset, the color of flamboyant flowers”*…
Clio, Pierre Mignard Red is “the first color,” the most primordial and symbolic, for thousands of years in the West “the only color worthy of that name.” It is the basic color of all ancient peoples...
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“I see black light”*…
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio used ivory black to convey asceticism, piety, and inspiration in his 1605-6 painting, St Jerome Writing. Suddenly, black was everywhere. It caked the flesh of miners...
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“Friends share things”*…
Readers may recall that (R)D has contemplated black before [and here], more particularly, the emergence of the (then) “blackest black,” Vantablack. Here, via the always-amazing Imperica, an update:...
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“Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone”*…
in 2016, Pantone 448 C (“Drab Dark Brown”) was selected as the color for plain tobacco and cigarette packaging in Australia, after market research determined that it was the least attractive of all...
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“An ordinary life isn’t ordinary when you put a frame around a moment”*…
Joel Meyerowitz is a pioneer of street photography. He started in the early 1960s in New York City, using color film when most other photographers were shooting in black-and-white. He’s had...
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