Since I was a child, I have been obsessed with colour, more specifically, the psychological application of colour in a therapeutic context. In the playground while friends were handing out brightly coloured...
I recently attended the Color Marketing Group 2013 Summit and, as always, it was a wonderful way to get charged and energized by ideas on color selection and process. What makes the CMG summit so unique...
Harry Mercer has 30 years of experience in the denim business including working for 3 prominent U.S. denim companies. He is an expert colorist for measurement and color matching as well as textile testing....
Using examples like discords in music, A.H. Munsell explains the concept of unbalance of color in this section of the Introduction for the 1921 book, A Grammar of Color, published posthumously by the Strathmore...
Balance of Color, explains the application of color balance and provides three color composition examples that achieve balance, using the color sphere. It is a section of the Introduction for the 1921...
by Maria Elkins
(Image: Windblown, an original art quilt by Maria Elkins)
I’ve spent most of my life either drawing or sewing. About twenty years ago, I finally realized I could combine the two....
By Priscilla Palmer
I was introduced to the Munsell Color System in 1958-59 while a freshman student at U.C.L.A.
I still have the booklet we were given in class: A Practical Description of the Munsell...
Ask a classroom of middle schoolers what happens when you mix red and green together. They’ll roll their eyes and mumble in a monotone “brown”. “So what?” their expressions will tell you, “I’ve...
A. H. Munsell provided the Introduction for the 1921 book, A Grammar of Color, which was published posthumously by the Strathmore Paper Company. The introduction includes sections on The Color Sphere,...
R-O-Y-G-B-I-V. Almost everyone remembers learning about rainbows and prisms in elementary school, right? Red-Orange-Yellow-Green-Blue-Indigo-Violet: the seven bands of the rainbow; the result of rain...