29th Oct. '08 • Creativity • Tags: pantone
Filed as Color fun
Industrial Designer Ignacio Pilotto is the creative mind behind this project. I think it is so clever and fun. I want one don’t you?
My thanks to the always creative John McCauley, Vice President and Creative Director of MacLaren Momentum in Toronto, Canada for sharing a link to Ignocia blog post on the Rubitone.
Stop by and see the rest of the pictures he has of the Rubitone… (more…)
Speaking of purple…
…I’ve visited purple.com many, many times and still it makes me smile. I think it is brilliant especially if you remember the Internet circa 1994 when this was launched.
Just the idea of arriving at a page with nothing but the color purple to me is so amusing. I can almost hear the unsuspecting visitor saying, “Huh?” can’t you?
Click on the purple rectangle to visit purple.com
If you share my sense of humor and love of self expression you will understand this site. For the rest there are FAQ’s
I was just playing with the X-Rite Color IQ Test and it reminded me to share it with you.
You are presented with a screen that looks like this. You then rearrange the squares to reflect the gradation between the fixed squares at each end.
On the monitor it is a bit more challenging to see the nuances of each color but still works well and is fun.
You can take the test (more…)
29th Jul. '08 • Trends • Tags: color forecast, fashion, red, Trends
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I had to laugh when I read the response UK Telegraph columnist Hadley Freeman gave her reader to their fashion question. She pokes fun at trend forecasting in ‘Recession chic’
In the red: apparently scarlet pieces are a sign of the recession
Question:
I read in last week’s Guardian that it’s necklines, not hemlines, that reflect the world’s economy. Are there any other fashion signs about global finances? (more…)
19th Jun. '08 • Products & Packaging Color • Tags: automotive, black, blue, Color Trends, red, silver, white
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U.S. News reports that “People who own emerald green automobiles…have the most positive attitude about the course of their own lives. Dark blue and silver are other colors chosen by upbeat people.”
The article goes on to say that, “Red supposedly connotes an aggressive, high-speed personality, while yellow, theoretically, is for folks with sunny dispositions. But survey data show that people who drive red or yellow cars have below-average confidence. And black cars, supposedly a sign of power and elegance, are driven by the most downbeat drivers of all.” (more…)
How many times have you seen motivational posters hung within the walls of a company whose leadership is anything but motivating?
Well Loyalis has come up with some perfect replacement posters in his Demotivational series. Check them out here…
I bet without me telling you would have figured out my favorite. Color and duct tape…my kind of humor. 
11th Apr. '08 • Color Tests & Quizzes • Tags: Color Theory, illusion, metamerism
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Over at Lotto Labs Beau has posted several images that show how placement of colors can fool our eye.
His aim is to show us HOW and WHY we see the way we do and he illustrates his points few words and great images.
This is one example but he has several more color and visual illusions that I’m sure you’ll find fun to look at.
Look at the colors and placement of the squares surrounding the center square. Can you see how color is influenced by its context?
3rd Apr. '08 • Color Humor • Tags: blue, green, humor, red, yellow
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As part of the city of Minneapolis’ ever-growing commitment to sustainability and the environment, Mayor R.T. Rybak and the City Council began an earnest campaign on April 1 to add the color green to the list of primary colors, which currently includes only the colors red, yellow and blue.
“With the coming of spring, and the rapidly deteriorating state of our global ecosystem, the time has come to give green its due,” announced Rybak outside City Hall on April 1, wearing a forest-green suit, mint-green shirt and socks of mismatched verdant hues to mark the occasion.
“Green is the most prevalent color in the natural world,” stated Ward 2 Council Member Cam Gordon at the ceremonial event. “Consider all the trees and plant life that are so key to our planet’s survival,” he said, adding that the ocean isn’t really blue, if you think about it.
Ward 3 Council Member Diane Hofstede echoed Gordon’s sentiments about the color’s prevalence and importance. “If that isn’t the definition of a primary color, I don’t know what is,” she said.
Ward 7 Council Member Lisa Goodman angrily dismissed skeptics, who criticized the resolution as political posturing and a scientific fallacy. “That’s the kind of outdated, enlightenment-era thinking that got us into this global mess,” said Goodman in response to assertions that green is, in fact, a secondary color formed by combining the colors yellow and blue.
Ward 9 Council Member Gary Schiff agreed. “At one time, we believed the earth was flat,” he said, referring to Western society as a whole, not the Council specifically. “It’s time to look forward, not back.”
Kate’s note: Thanks for a good laugh Jeremy! (The writer that came up with this April Fool’s Day piece for The Bridge.)
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