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 [...]
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There is something so kinetic about 2 holidays falling on the same day, don’t you think?
The ruckus of the Chinese New Year’s celebration coupled with the most famous day of amour- lends itself to a real East meets West kind of day.
I had been in fact very excited at the prospect of 2010 [...]
Before I step one more foot into 2010, I figured I’d have a go at rounding up the colorful events, people and well-colors that shaped this past year. There were plenty of highlights, a few too many lows if you asked me and some media sensations that simply made you wonder “Do we all really [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Last year I got a real kick out of the Christmas By Colour poster project put together by the creative folks over at Raw Design Studio.
I loved not only the idea behind the project but the end result and without any hesitation clicked the “Buy” button. The poster quickly found a home in my [...]
For as long as my flustered mind can remember, the fourth Thursday of every November of my life can best be summed up by the following keywords: turkey, pumpkin, stuffing, cranberry, pilgrim, cornucopia, parade and football.
If you were to build a color palette of my collective T-Day memories it would look something like this:
I had [...]
The figures are in and as we approach the holiday season, the world’s economic state can be summed up by four simple words: “We’re all still broke!”
I could offer up some additional colorful words to describe exactly how I’m feeling about my own personal finances right now- but in the spirit of the season I’m [...]
