Grey has been crowned colour of the season, as declared by every glossy magazine, and by the entire high street. I wonder why … Continue reading ‘Grey: a fashion dilemma’
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Archive for October, 2006
According to 5 A Day program, eating 5 or more servings of colorful fruits and vegetables a day is part of an important plan for healthier living. That’s because deeply hued fruits and vegetables provide the wide range of vitamins, minerals, fiber, and phytochemicals your body needs to maintain good health and energy levels, protect against the effects of aging, and reduce the risk of cancer and heart disease.
It’s all about color – blue/purple, green, white, yellow/orange, and red – and the power of colorful fruits and vegetables to promote good health. So when you’re grocery shopping, planning your meals or dining out, think color. Continue reading ‘5 a day the color way’
Monochromeye, is a portable device that enhances low resolution vision. A fingerholder contains one red, one green and one blue lightsensor that read the environment as you point at it. It feeds back the color information to two tricolored (RGB) light diodes that emit two beams of light straight into the viewers eyes. At such a low resolution, the viewer can only get color readings. They do not contain any information beyond the color that is registered at the point in space where the viewer points his finger. Continue reading ‘Monochromeye’
Gwent police (Wales) are now using colour psychology to decorate police cell. The police station has four cells with glass doors for prisoners who suffers from claustrophobia. Designers have painted the frames yellow, which researchers say is a calming colour. Other cells contain a royal blue line because psychologists believe that that colour is likely to encourage truthfulness.
Colours are brighter! Released October 16, this album is a mix of great music created appositely for children and performed by Four Tet, Franz Ferdinand, The Divine Comedy, Half Man Half Biscuit, etc… Belle&Sebastian curated this group project and all profits are going to the children’s charity, Save the Children. Go Go Ninja Dinosaur!
The Luscher-Colour-Test measures a person’s psycho-physical state, his or her ability to withstand stress, to perform, and to communicate. It uncovers the cause of psychological stress, which can lead to physical symptoms. Using 5015 precise definitions, the selections from among these pre-determined test colors measure the state of 34 personality traits, some of which lie outside the realm of the conscious. Continue reading ‘The Lüscher’s colour test’
The “Empathic Painting” is an interactive painterly rendering whose appearance adapts in real time to reflect the perceived emotional state of the viewer.
Continue reading ‘Empathic Painting’
The (RED) campaign strikes yet another great deal. After American Express, mobile phones, and a whole issue of the Independent, now you can get the ipod nano (RED). I quite like it. Continue reading ‘How (RED) are you? pt.2′
Interested in the impact of colour on human body and mind, in colour psychology or in the science of colour? The Royal College of Art in London offers excellent resources for research on this subject. The Colour Reference Library, according to Neil Parkinson, the collection manager, is one of the two libraries in the world specialised on colour. Continue reading ‘The Colour Library at RCA’
Our personal and cultural associations affect our experience of color. Colors are seen as warm or cool mainly because of long-held (and often universal) associations. Yellow, orange and red are associated with the heat of sun and fire; blue, green and violet with the coolness of leaves, sea and the sky. Read more about colour psychology.
There are literally millions of colours! And every colour can be described in terms of having three main attributes: hue, saturation and brightness.
Hue is identified as the colour family or colour name (such as red, green, purple). Hue is directly linked to the colour’s wavelength.
Saturation, also called “chroma,” is a measure of the purity of a colour or how sharp or dull the colour appears. More Continue reading ‘Colour attributes’
The Lisson Gallery (London) is hosting new works by Anish Kapoor (13 October-18 November 2006), a must-see for all chromo-freaks out there.
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