17th Nov. '08 • Quotes About Color • Tags: air, canvas, light, palette
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“Ah, Chardin, what you grind on your palette is not this color or that… but the very substance of things. You dip your brush in air and light and spread them on your canvas.”
Denis Diderot
10th May. '07 • Products & Packaging Color • Tags: blue, green, light, technology
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Inspired by their love of the colors and elements found in nature, the designers of the recently released Sony Ericsson T650 have created a phone that is all about the details.
From the special illumination effects on the keypad and side of the phone that interact with the display to the color accents to the sleek stainless steel finish the design appeals to me.
What I found most fascinating was that you have the ability to set the light effects and phone themes (more…)
8th May. '07 • Brand, Trademark or Signature Color • Tags: city branding, color symbolism, light, turkey
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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 mixed reviews and everyone from statesmen to the people on the street seem to have a strong opinion on the project. (more…)
I keep an eye on the science and research publications to see what may be on the horizon for color in the future.
Even if I don’t fully understand the impact of the latest reserch it still sparks my imagination and opens my mind to new possiblities for the future as well as for using the materials available to me today.
This week Chemical Technology: A magazine highlighting the latest applications and technological aspects of research across the chemical sciences reports:
A simple process for preparing light-emitting layers of silica with wide colour variation has been developed by Italian scientists. (more…)
2nd Feb. '07 • Color in Business Environments • Tags: color-psychology, light, pink
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The Daily Telegraph out of NSW, Australia reports that Rockdale Council has plans to bathe a known trouble spot in pink light to discourage hoons [undesirables] loitering there and if the test is successful, they will switch on [pink] at other locations.
Councillor Gary Green said pink is known to have a calming affect on people and said it is hoped the pink lighting will prove “unsympathetic towards hoons”.
Rockdale is the council that recruited Barry Manilow to fight crime. Mayor Bill Saravinovski said the council may even consider giving crooner Barry Manilow the flick in favour of Pink Floyd. Maybe the council should keep Barry and supplement the pink lights with piped in “Manilow music”.
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