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 [...]
That was the question du jour on the morning after President Obama’s State of the Union address so I wasn’t surprised when Georgea Kovanis of the Detroit Free Press called me to get a bit of expert insight.Did the color send a message at the State of the Union address?
“Color sends a message,’” says Kate [...]
If you’ve been tuned in here or on our Facebook fans page you know that I had a blast sharing my New Year’s resolution to ‘Learn More‘ as one of the experts participating in Ten Design Days hosted by Sonu Mathew of Living In Color With Sonu and Kathy Barlow of HomeWorkshop.
With a resolution like [...]
While completing his thesis dissertation in design and marketing at the University of Minho, Miguel Neiva realized that little is done in the textile/clothing industry to alleviate the constraints of colorblind individuals.
The little graphic image identifies the color of each pencil. See the code system below.
He took it upon himself to further explore the concept [...]
New Year’s Eve is more than just a time for celebrating. It is a time for reflecting on the past, and looking forward to the coming year. A time to to take stock of where we are and maybe more importantly where we’d like to be in the future.
Of course being somewhere other than where [...]
If I say “Christmas colors” I bet red and green instantly come to mind but have you ever wondered how these two colors came to represent our most celebrated holiday?
Like any longstanding tradition there are enough stories about its origins to keep a cultural anthropologist busy for a long time but I have a few [...]
As I was addressing my Christmas by Colour cards last night I received a thank you email from the nice folks at CBC that I wanted to share with you. The email said:
We’re no Scrooge!
Christmas is coming, the geese are already fat, and we’d like to say a final thank you to all of [...]
We’ve been hearing quite a bit about the Color of the Year in the last couple of weeks and while there is not one official organization that bestows this honor on a single hue several well recognized companies that are involved with color each name and create a lot of buzz around a ‘Color of [...]
In my little pond of color professionals I’m considered quite adept at technology and the Internet but believe me I am far from being a ‘techie’…although I’d like to be. You see I have this belief that those people many consider techies (and maybe even a bit nerdy) are going to rule the world.
Maybe [...]
