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Color Quote of the Day: January 5th
5th Jan. '09 • Quotes About Color • Tags: color, experience, flower, painted
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“Whether the flower or the color is the focus I do not know. I do know the flower is painted large to convey my experience with the flower – and what is my experience if it is not the color?”
Georgia O’Keeffe
Color Quote of the Day: January 4th
4th Jan. '09 • Quotes About Color • Tags: malleable, temperature
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“One has to arrive at a specific temperature, at which the objects become malleable.”
Georges Braque
Color Quote of the Day: January 3rd
3rd Jan. '09 • Quotes About Color • Tags: red, transformed
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“You can spend a lifetime studying the interaction of colours, and painting how red can dance, so when the viewer ‘gets it’ and says ‘Aha!’ their way of seeing is transformed.”
Gayle Konantz
“If you use colour carefully, that is, placing a softer ‘off’ colour next to pure colour, it helps add the magic touch to your work – and that special look.”
Gail Boyle (Pre. Dip. Fine Arts, P.A.N.Z)
New Zealand artist
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Color Quote of the Day: January 1, 2009
1st Jan. '09 • Quotes About Color • Tags: black, purple, violet
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“Don’t order any black things. Rejoice in his memory; and be radiant: leave grief to the children. Wear violet and purple. Be patient with the poor people who will snivel: they don’t know; and they think they will live for ever, which makes death a division instead of a bond.”
George Bernard Shaw
Irish born playwright who lived most of his life in London, England, 1856-1950
Window Wonderland
18th Dec. '08 • Holidays & Occasions • Tags: christmas, CMG, nyc
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Via CMG Found
Let’s face it: New York City knows how to do the holidays like no other city in the world.
Even before the first snowflakes fall, the city transforms into a magical winter wonderland. Skaters do figure-eights in Central Park, the Rockettes kick up their heels at Radio City Music Hall, Sugar Plum Fairies drift across the stage at Lincoln Center, and Bloomingdale’s, Macy’s, Lord & Taylor and Saks Fifth Avenue fill their windows with the most stunningly colorful holiday window displays. (more…)
Deer Me
15th Dec. '08 • Holidays & Occasions • Tags: blue, brown, gold, holiday, live in full color, neutral, purple, yellow
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The wonderful thing about working with smart, creative people is that they are a great source of inspiration. As usual Julie finds the best products and I’m stealing this one for my own color inspiration for today.
It come from a post Julie wrote today on creating a December fete where the mood is festive- yet nothing is quite as it seems. Her inspiration began with designer Caroline Gardner’s not so typical holiday palette and a deer motif that feels more ‘optical illusion’ then ‘yuletide cheer’.
This is an unusual combination of color especially for the holidays but shows how unexpected combinations (more…)
JCrew Savings Inspired
12th Dec. '08 • Products & Packaging Color • Tags: advertisement, orange, red
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I regularly see articles or books that talk about looking to fine art or photographs of nature for color scheme inspiration and these are great places to find beautiful combinations however color inspiration can come from anywhere that there is color.
My inbox seems to be ripe recently with ads filled with color inspiration. This email advertisement from JCrew caught my eye this evening because it uses a variety of red and orange hues in a way the I found particularly appealing.
They have taken the trend of combining red and orange that has been quite popular this holiday (especially among their target audience) and and subtly used it to add interest to this mostly red and white ad. (more…)
Christmas by Colour
12th Dec. '08 • Holidays & Occasions • Tags: christmas, Color Names, holiday
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Frustrated at the plethora of Christmas reds, whites and greens those pesky designers at Raw Design Studio began exploring what colors people really associate with their Christmas.
Through a collaborative effort via the Internet this self-initiated project produced this spectrum of Christmas colors.
Yup, you guessed it. I just bought one. The posters including shipping go for just over $20.00 USD and you get a bonus piece of wrapping paper. Go here to buy one for yourself.
Now I just have to decide who on my “nice list” will have their gift wrapped in that great paper. (more…)
