There is always lots of chatter about any State of the Union address but this week the conversations included the color purple. Why was purple the color of the day for ‘Team Obama”?
A question Georgea Kovanis attempts to answer in her article, Did purple apparel send a message at the State of the Union address? [...]
I’ve added a new color lens to Squidoo– Colours of India. Check out all of my many Squidoo lenses and if you like what you find please take time to give me a 5* rating at the top of the lens page. Thanks.
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 [...]
Chinese use icons to show Olympic support
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 [...]
How Starbucks is using a special brown logo to evoke the chain’s beginnings and restore some goodwill for the brand
The new old logo: Starbucks is temporarily using a sanitized version of its original branding on new packaging.
Brown is certainly a color that communicates coffee. So, when you order a cup of the new Pike Place [...]
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
Red – The Color of Romance!
Scarlet, Crimson, Torch Red, Lipstick Red, Red Rose, Paint the Town Red, Red Hot, Red Handed, Candy Apple Red, Fire Engine Red, Blood Red, Red Letter Day, Red Bull. Red is not passive or fluffy. Red is attention-getting. Red is assertive. Red is action and energy. Red is powerful.
A debate invovling color and light is underway in Istanbul, Turkey. The Bosporus Bridge a monument rich in symbolic meaning as it brings together two continents has been decorated with 16 million blue, red, and yellow LED bulbs at the expense of the Turkish Phillips Company.
However the bright lights have been received with [...]
I’ve added a new color lens to Squidoo– Roses: Color Meaning and Symbolism. Check out all of my many Squidoo lenses and if you like what you find please take time to give me a 5* rating at the top of the lens page. Thanks. [...]
Each weekday Squidoo’s Editor in Chief, Megan Casey, highlights a lens that stands out from the crowd, a lens that is unique in topic, approach, personality, tools or timing and today it was my lens on Color Meaning, Symbolism and Psychology.
Thanks so very much Megan!
