17th Oct. '08 • Color Around the World , More on Color Trends • Tags: live in full color, orange
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With Halloween on the horizon April shows us her favorite items in orange.
See them all in Curious Orange…Like Clockwork on Live In Full Color… (more…)
29th Apr. '08 • Color Around the World • Tags: blue, china, red, teal
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In 2008 the Chinese will officially have their chance to mix a little of their culture with the traditions of the Olympics.
For example, on the official Olympics website for 2008, one can quickly find in the Torch Relay section at the top, a banner full of red waves and, you guessed it, a red dragon. In China, a red dragon symbolizes both happiness and power and it is a red dragon that will symbolize the lighting of the flame!
In creating his vision of how China would be portrayed on the Olympic website Zhifeng mingled traditional colors with a color not represented in Feng Shui; a color not a part of Chinese culture.
The main color theme of the Olympic website for 2008 is the modern and beautiful blending of blue and green to produce teal. Teal represents a new age of modernity; a color, which right now in China represents an increased awareness of globalization. The Chinese have embraced this color and display it proudly.
Although red will never be pushed aside at the heart of Chinese culture, it will, for a while, have to share the stage with teal.
16th Apr. '08 • Color Around the World • Tags: china, color symbolism, red
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Chinese Web users, stung by international criticism of China ahead of the Beijing Olympics, have splashed red across the Internet by adding hearts and “CHINA” to their names when chatting online in a show of support.
Several Reuters reporters’ contact lists for online chat programs, such as Microsoft Corp.’s MSN, steadily filled up with red hearts during the day, though opinions differed as to what, exactly, the symbol signified.
Continue reading at globeandmail.com
2nd Apr. '08 • Color Around the World • Tags: color symbolism, color-meaning, orange
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The organizers of The Colour Orange campaign will use the Olympics in Beijing 2008 to visually put focus on China’s violations of human rights.
“We will use the colour orange and make it a symbol of the protest against the human rights violations in China. Due to the strict censorship it will be practically impossible for sportspeople and spectators to get into the stadium with obvious symbols in form of text or pictures. But no authority will be able to ban the colour orange, although it is obvious for everybody that it expresses a conspicuous accusation against the human rights violations in China
It is the Danish sculptor Jens Galschiot and his art workshop (Art in Defence of Humanism, AIDOH www.aidoh.dk) that is behind the ‘Colour Orange’ project.
Galschiot thinks of art as nonverbal communication and he often uses his art to make international art happenings to place focus on defenders of humanism. He usually uses his sculptures as artistic manifestations, but as a result of the extremely limited Freedom of Speech at the Olympics in 2008, he has chosen the colour orange. He funds his art events himself mainly through the sale of bronze sculptures to art collectors and he is therefore completely independent from political, economic and religious interests.
Jens Galschiot says: “This is not really a campaign in the traditional sense. The project has to work as a catalyst for some kind of wave or feeling that repeats itself over and over again and that flushes all over the world.”
The project will, through its own dynamics, function as what Joseph Beuys has called a “Gesamtkunstwerk” in which the distinction between the artist, the art itself and the viewer has become blurred. Everybody becomes part of the art.
14th Mar. '08 • Color Around the World • Tags: china
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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…
22nd Feb. '08 • Color Around the World • Tags: fashion, India
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After my meeting today I had time for a quick street tour of Delhi and a stop at Humayun’s Tomb before going to my client’s home for an Indian dinner.
Driving past hundreds of people gave me a sense of styles and colors but as my driver navigated the hundreds of cars, buses, mini cabs, moped riders and pedestrians in the streets it was impossible to get a picture that was in focus. Luckily when I walked about the grounds of the Tomb I was able to snap a few good shots.
These two young women happily posed to show off their saris. You can see my driver in the background. He is wearing a combination I saw on many men– classic colored slacks with a boldly colored shirts although the colors worn by the men in general are not as intense as those worn by the women.
Even young boys wore jeans or classic colored slacks with lots of color in their shirts or sweaters.
Two more young women who had seemed as interested in what I was wearing as I was in their wardrobe choices. Perhaps they were wondering why I had chosen navy blue and white.
Young and old alike gave me a show with their intensely colored saris.
I’m not sure why most of the local visitors to Humayun’s Tomb were women. Possibly they came with a group of men that were playing cricket in the field just outside the grounds.
I snapped my own shot of this group picture and my doing so seems to have distracted a few of the women in the top row.
Here two women have paired their traditional sari with denim jackets mixing the looks of east and west.
10th Nov. '07 • Color Around the World • Tags: pink, thailand, Trends, yellow
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People across Thailand have started wearing pink shirts in tribute to their beloved 79-year-old king, who checked out of a hospital this week dressed in a blazer and a dress shirt of that color.
For about two years, Thais have shown their respect for King Bhumibol Adulyadej by wearing yellow _ the color that in Buddhist tradition symbolizes Monday, the day of the week the monarch was born.
Many Thais have donned yellow shirts every Monday since 2006, the year of Bhumibol’s 60th anniversary on the throne. The tribute has continued this year to celebrate his 80th birthday on 5 Dec.
But it looks like pink is about to become the new yellow in Thailand. Demand for pink T-shirts is picking up.
Astrologers have determined pink to be an auspicious color for the king’s 80th year. A royal emblem, using pink among other colors, was specially designed for his birthday.
(Photo courtesy: AP Photo/Apichart Weerawong)
5th May. '07 • Color Around the World , Creativity • Tags: commercial interiors, entertainment
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11th Feb. '07 • Color Around the World • Tags: malaysia, purple
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In Kuala Lumpur at least one local council rejected building plans because the draughtsman used “the wrong colour”, of purple, said the Malaysian Institute of Architects (PAM).
When re-submitted in the “correct” colour, the building plans were rejected again, this time because it was folded the wrong way.
Is it no wonder that the New Straits Times refers to the Malaysian bureaucracy’s officials as “Little Napoleons”?
9th Feb. '07 • Color Around the World • Tags: France, green
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While many cities are talking about green in terms of energy efficiency and environment protection in Paris when the mayor says he wants all green cabs he is referring to the color! Although I can’t say that he is not also concerned with environmental issues his focus seems to be on making the cabs in Paris a uniform color.
”It appears that Mayor Bertrand Delanoe wants to emulate London (black cabs) and New York (yellow ones) by having Paris taxis with all the same color. The idea is to make the 15,500 Paris cabs more easily recognizable.” Seth Goldschlager for Metro International
Of course my first question is what hue of green does he have in mind?
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