Hear The Rainbow: An Interactive and Emotive Sonification of a 3 Dimensional Colour Space
Colour is part of one of our most complex senses and is one we each have a dynamic and unique relationship with, both physiologically and mentally. Albert Munsell was passionate about portraying colour theory in a way that didn’t focus … Continue reading
Colour as a Puzzling Guide to Our World
In a recent post on this blog, philosopher C. L. Hardin discusses why it is problematic to think of colour simply as a physical property, constituted by spectral power distributions. It is common knowledge that two pigments that appear to … Continue reading
Three Concepts of Color: A Philosopher’s Journey
Question: A tree falls in the forest when nobody is around to hear it. Does it make a sound? … Continue reading
The Dress Debate Continues
We imagine everyone feels ready to move on from the topic of #thedress, but when you live in the world of color, is it hard to stop finding a reason to bring it up again. We recently came across an … Continue reading
How the Munsell Book of Color Revolutionized Linguistics Part 3
Discovering the Munsell Chart: Lenneberg, Roberts, Berlin & Kay First – why are modern day researchers using the Munsell chart (or similar charts) instead of the Holmgren wool test and the Lovibond tintometer? … Continue reading
How the Munsell Book of Color Revolutionized Linguistics
Why are Linguists Interested in Color? If you speak Greek, Japanese or Russian, the English language must seem rather poor when it comes to describing shades of blue. All of these languages have two words for blue, where English only … Continue reading
Emotions… Why that Color?
“Because I like it,” could be an answer to the question from the title of this blog series and it wouldn’t be any less valid than any other answer. In previous posts I tried to analyze what influences our color … Continue reading
Why that Color?
“…it’s sort of comical how you think that you’ve made a choice that exempts you from the fashion industry when, in fact, you’re wearing the sweater that was selected for you by the people in this room from a pile … Continue reading