Color Theory in Time
Have you seen the Chroma watch? Based on the Munsell Color System, the numbers change color every second, and the hand colors merge from one color palette to another.
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Color is one of the most influential elements that attract us. It is well known that color is number one reason why consumers approach (and often purchase) merchandise.
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That feeling of awe when I received a set of 24 color markers as a kid has never gone away. That box contained the whole world. The possibilities were endless and just waiting to be released. My generation...
Archaeologists, soil scientists, geoscientists and geoarchaeologists are much indebted to Munsell for their Soil Color Charts. The first time I saw them I was a first-year undergraduate student doing archaeological...
Neil Harbisson has never seen color. Born with achromatopsia he lives in a grayscale world. Technology has allowed him to detect color through sound. The camera on the end of the antenna permanently attached...
Interview with Pantone Product Development Manager Kimberly Tippett
We sat down with Kim to learn more about a new product from Pantone, the Plastic Standard Chips PLUS Collection.
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“...it is really not a theory at all. Nothing can be predicted by means of it. It is, rather, a vague schematic outline…”
Ludwig Wittgenstein, Remarks on Color
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As the world’s first cyborg, Neil Harbisson hears color instead of seeing it via a camera attached to an antenna which leads to a chip implanted in his skull. Being born with achromatopsia, he is completely...
Color Theory was a required foundations course in the Visual Communication Design program at BYU, so all the design students took it--the interior designers, graphic designers, industrial designers, and...
The role of color in our contemporary consumerist culture combines all other aspects discussed in earlier posts (gender, culture, language, communication). It’s also brilliantly summed up by Miranda...