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- Vintage Color & Design: Grey FabricYesterday
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Continuing our vintage fabric series, today we're looking at some great color inspiration from a collection of grey vintage fabrics. This collection, along with plenty of other fine image sets, can be found here and were put together by True Up, which happens to be wonderful resource for fabric news.
- Kaleidoscopic ColorJanuary 7
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A kaleidoscope is a tube of mirrors containing loose colored beads, pebbles or other small colored objects. The viewer looks in one end and light enters the other end, reflecting off the mirrors. Typically there are two rectangular lengthwise mirrors. Setting of the mirrors at 45° creates eight duplicate images of the objects, six at 60°, and four at 90°. As the tube is rotated, the tumbling of the colored objects presents the viewer with varying colors and patterns. Any arbitrary pattern of objects shows up as a beautiful symmetric pattern because of the reflections in the mirrors. A two-mirror model yields a pattern or patterns isolated against a solid black background, while a three-mirror (closed triangle) model yields a pattern that fills the entire field.
Photo by Crystal Writer
History of the Kaleidoscope
- Seeing Colors: Grapheme-Color SynesthesiaJanuary 6
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While we might all be familiar with the condition of color blindness, it's not the only condition related to color. Another, and maybe less familiar, or at least, more complicated, is a form of Synesthesia where your brain associates certain colors with letters and numbers called Grapheme-color Synesthesia.
One of our very own COLOUR lovers, deedee914, has this very condition, and as an artist & designer the condition has given her a unique perspective on color and it's uses in her work. I got a chance to talk with deedee about her personal snyesthesia map, her struggle to stick with brand standards, and how this conditions impacts her and her work on a daily basis.
- Happy Hue Year! Looking Back on 2008...January 5
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Hello COLOURlovers, I wanted to send you some new year wishes and to look back on a very interesting 12 months. COLOURlovers has grown a lot in the last year, enjoyed some very nice praise and has survived through some tough economic times. Thank you for sharing the love and for helping make this site such a creative, supportive and strong community.
Some Stats from 2008:
1,012,479 Colors Named
429,261 Palettes Added
321,434 Patterns Added
954,460 Comments Posted
7.5 Million visitors from around the world came to COLOURlovers.Some of the Recognition We Received in 2008:
Webby Awards: Best Community Site Nominee (2nd Year in a Row)
Webvisionary Awards: Best of Show, Best Community, Best Web Application
Most Popular Blog Posts of 2008:
- Eclectic Color RoundupJanuary 4
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Here’s a roundup of the most colorful art, products, websites and such that I’ve come across in the last week.
Products
Kirk Originals
Ever since they converted an old sewing machine into a glass cutter back in 1919 Kirk Originals has been creating some of the most colorful eyeglasses on the market.
Art
Cristiana Couceiro
Portfolio Site
Cristiana's work uses some great color palettes that blend bright colors with old black and white images.
