I’m back and today I’m sharing the first of my five favorite ways to add color found at Neocon East–
Dreamwalls Colored Glass
I like the clean, uncluttered look of colored glass for backsplashes and in kitchen or wet bar areas but it can be used in bathrooms, spas or even dining areas.
How about on the fronts of the cabinets as well. I love this look. It appeals both to my love of bold color and sleek design. (more…)
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I am so enjoying discovering the beautiful colored birthstones each month as Kimberlin Brown post her monthly feature.
September’s birthstone is the brilliant blue sapphire (although I learned they (more…)
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I just posted an article that has a good overview of color trends that apply to any industry. Read the trends article on Sensational Color…
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Here is a sign I see at least three times a week and it has become a good reminder to me of how strong our associations with particular colors can be.
Can you guess where it is?
I just posted a short article inspired by this sign. You can read it here…
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How do you pick color names that are meaningful to kids?
You ask them!
Here’s what they told the folks at Crayola….
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It’s March 17th and for those of us that are Irish and those that wanna be (at least for one day a year) it’s ‘the wearing of the green’ in honor of St. Patrick’s Day.
Americans have been celebrating St. Patrick’s Day since the 1850’s. But if you’re knowledge of Irish history only goes as deep as a mug of green beer you might be surprised to learn that in Ireland this holiday is not celebrated as wildly as in the U.S. and that there is not a historic connection between green and St. Patrick.
It is only in modern times that green has become associated with St. Patrick’s Day. Blue, not green, is the color long associated with St. Patrick.
A green shamrock was a symbol that St. Patrick had used to explain the Holy Trinity to the pre-Christian Irish and ‘the wearing of the green’ meant to wear a shamrock to display your faith.
It is widely believed that beginning in the mid-1700’s people mistook the phrase to mean wearing green garments and we all know the rest of the story…the wearing of green has become ubiquitous with St. Patrick’s Day.
In fact green has become so strongly attached not just to this holiday but to Ireland many believe that it is the ‘official’ color of the country. While there is no official color two hues of blue, St. Patrick’s Blue and Presidential Blue are widely used by the Government of Ireland.
Presidential Blue is darker than St. Patrick’s Blue and both can be seen the football (soccer) uniforms of Dublin County and the liveries of Aer Lingus. Presidential Blue appears in the Irish Crest and St. Patrick’s Blue can be seen behind the gold bardic harp on on the ancient Irish flag.
So while I’ll still be ‘wearing the green’ today my heart will be ‘true blue’ all the way down to my Irish roots.
PS- I can’t help but wonder if the green really came about when the first creative pub owner tried to make blue beer. Blue food color + yellow beer…oops! Hmm, how can we spin this? Can’t let all that good beer go to waste! ☺
Happy St. Paddy’s Day
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I read recently that large pictures of Chinese opera masks will adorn the Olympic buses this summer.
In the article there was a reference to fact that the colors of the masks each stands for particular traits of the opera character.
Well, that was all it took for me to begin exploring the meaning of the colors of the the Chinese opera.
See what I learned about the colors used in these elaborately decorated masks…
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Today we posted the second in Kimberlin Brown’s series on birthstones and this was of special interest since to me since Amethyst is my birthstone.
But even though it is my birthstone I don’t often wear this stone. I might be more inclined to wear it if I owned the absolutely spectacular graduating necklace of faceted amethyst teardrops that Kimberlin says Jackie O loved to wear. I bet she did. It’s gorgeous!
Kimberlin also shared that as the stone most closely associated with the heavens and spiritual thought, Amethyst is a great protector from negativity. Now there’s some incentive to wear this purple gem.
While you read the article I’ll go find that Amethyst pendant I got for my birthday years ago. You never know when you might need to ward off negativitiy.
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I admit that I don’t know too much about colored gemstones (I’ve always tended to favor diamonds) so I’m just thrilled that jewelry designer Kimberlin Brown has agreed to provide us with a series of articles about birthstones.
Her first installment was posted today on Sensational Color and already I’ve learned something new. Did you know that garnets comes in a virtual rainbow of choices not just red. I sure didn’t. I can’t wait to see what I learn next month about my birthstone Amethyst.
See what Kimberlin has to say about garnet…
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Blue, the color least often found naturally in the food and is often used in the marketing of low-fat foods. Does it encourages people to eat less or at least communicate a more healthy product?
I just wrote a short piece on a study conducted by OKI Printing about the use of blue in packaging. You can read it here…
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