Jude Stewart

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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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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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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Lordy, it’s holiday-shopping season again! What on earth should you buy for the color-fans on your list? Glad you asked, my rainbow-mavens. Below are some gift suggestions for your use and delectation: Let’s start with the season’s juiciest books. Chromatic: The Crossroads of Color and Music is a positively kick-ass visual exploration of various ways [...]

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Photo from Badly Drawn Dad on Flickr Welcome to the waning half of autumn, folks - arguably the season most full with smashing color. This pic above hails from Slindon, West Sussex, England. Old farmer Ralph Upton began arranging his gourd-harvest to ripen on his shed-roof back in the 1960s. As you can see, matters [...]

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Color-fans: I’m motoring for the next few weeks in the final push to write my book about color. So naturally I can’t move an inch without my laptop and a burstingly full backpacks of reference books...which got me thinking: how full are your bookshelves with THE best color reads? Here’s your hit list of 7 [...]

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We’re still feeling the rush of color and its many conversations from Print’s first Color Conference last week at the Art Directors Club in New York City’s Fashion District. Here are some brilliant gems to recap: We kicked off Day 1 with stellar presentations by Leatrice Eiseman of the Pantone Institute (center, honeysuckle-pink scarf) and [...]

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Welcome to autumn! The air is crisp; the leaves curl earthwards and fill the streets with their papery-colorful confetti. It’s the season of gorgeousness, people: let’s dive in. Autumn Leaves & Escalator from Flickr Fashionistas crave cool fall weather for the chance to bundle up again in clothes, not to mention the annual barrage of [...]

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