Color

Welcome back to an ongoing, freewheeling conversation on color with Thomas Bosket and Langdon Graves, who both teach color theory at Parsons The New School for Design. (Read part 1 to catch up.) Do you have any knockout students in your color theory classes right now? Thomas Bosket: I haven't taught color this past year, so [...]

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Foundation Rwanda, a charity dedicating to providing secondary education for the 20,000 children born of rape during the 1994 Rwandan genocide, recently teamed up with members from the creative agency LBi Syrup, to bring awareness to the cause through a new fundraising initiative called “Color Rwanda with Hope.” The campaign uses mixed media elements, including [...]

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By Ken Carbone  The art world is seeing spots, lots of them. Currently, the Gagosian Gallery is exhibiting three hundred and thirty one paintings by Damien Hirst in eight cities around the globe. The show entitled “The Complete Spot Paintings 1986-2011” features stark white canvases covered in neatly arranged, candy colored dots. Famous for his pickled [...]

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Can you teach an instinct for color? Some colorists think not; those who say you can compare the process to something slyer, a delicate sussing-out of an affinity we all draw upon daily. I spoke to Thomas Bosket, Coordinator of Graphic Design and General Studios and Assistant Professor, and Langdon Graves, both instructors in color [...]

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Color-fans can now channel their fascination into a worthy cause: OwnaColour.com, sponsored by Glidden Paint, is auctioning off shades of the digital rainbow for charity. For a $2 donation to UNICEF (or more if you wish), you can select and name your very own shade. OwnaColour also provides real-time infographics tracking favorite shades by gender, [...]

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(This piece is a much expanded version of an article co-written with photographer/writer John Gruber for Print Magazine and the British trade mag Ads International in 1998.) The thought of Chicago in the 1920’s usually conjures up images of gangsters, Prohibition, and other Roaring 20’s clichés, but there was another movement in the Chicago area [...]

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I had a themed New Years Eve party this year. The theme was ROCK A HUE (wear a hue head to toe). The party also included my first art show ever at the party space (Light Rail Studios) and it was hue themed as well. The art all got finished in a month or so, [...]

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Pop the champagne corks and ready your hangover cures - 2011 is nearly done. Here’s a speedy roundup of the 11 best color stories of 2011 you may’ve missed. 2011 by zigazou76 on Flickr We’ll start the list on a future-leaning note: awesome calendars. Color-fans should rush to supply themselves with On This Day calendars. [...]

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...my favorite juicy, delectable orange, a shade they call Tangerine Tango (or Pantone 17-1463, to be precise). Get the full scoop, including PMS number-matches across Pantone’s various systems, here. I asked Pantone’s color guru Leatrice Eiseman for some inside dope on how she and the Pantone came to choose this smashing color. (You may recall [...]

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While researching an article I’m doing for an upcoming subject on 1920s posters, I pulled several books off my shelf to leaf through hoping to find some supplemental material. One of the volumes I grabbed was “Outdoor Advertising” by Wilmot Lippincott published by the McGraw-Hill Company in 1923. A relatively unassuming looking book from the [...]

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