For the Love of Color
Seriously?! I love color, and this just blew me away – and not because it’s groundbreaking or anything crazy, but because it’s simple and lovely. For the Love of Color, is just that. Just add to your RSS feed and enjoy. Awesome. via @designvagabond Read More
Color Palettes
Where does inspiration come from? Anywhere, from anything, or by anyone. I received an email from Esprit this morning and these shirts made me think, what a great color palette these would make for stationery. And Whoo-la, here they are! And unfortunately I can’t directly link to these shirts due to the way their site is setup (bad thing!) Read More
Helena Lindelen
Wow. Color is in! Helena Lindelen added me as a contact on Flickr and her work is just an explosion of colors. I would describe it as color giving birth to more color. And for those of you who aren’t fans of color, she has work in black and white too. Read More
Multicolr Search
I’m having way too much fun with the Multicolr Search Lab by Idée that allows a user to select up to ten colors and it will search all of Flickr for those colors. Above is a screen shot of the results using the colors from this site! Again, it’s too much fun and if you have a moment, give it a try. Read More
Zach Johnson
Red No. 3 by Zach Johnson I found these drawings today courtesy of Stumble by Zach Johnson. I love the explosions of color coming form the desaturated bodies. And for some reason I find humor in the titles of the pieces. Would you expect these to be called “Lime Frosted” or “Chocolate Dipped”? I really like the work shown above. It looks as if he’s a cola and someone shook him up and popped his top. I’m really... Read More
Pantone Colors for Web
Pantone to Web On mediarocket.com someone took the time to convert the Pantone library into RGB and hexidecimal numbers for us web savvy folks. Personally I use the Art Director’s Toolkit when it comes to this, but this a quick reference, it’s online, and best of all, it’s free. Read More
Text lesson
Light on Dark Light Text + Dark Background = Bad design. A lesson for those who love to put light text on dark backgrounds. You got schooled you blogging fool! A post from IronicSans.com Read More
Hue
Color IQ Test your hue recognition skills. This is great, people always argue with me about color and now I can say “HA! I got a 10 (lower is better) on the Color IQ Test!’ Try it for yourself. Read More
