Fall Colors

Myrna Loy on Color

By Happy Accident, Chemists Produce a New Blue

Observatory

By Happy Accident, Chemists Produce a New Blue

By KENNETH CHANG

Published: November 24, 2009

Blue is sometimes not an easy color to make.

Color And Pattern

New find around town is Quilt Arts. I love going to fabric stores that specialize in quilting because they sell what they call "fat quarters" of fabric, which makes it easy and cheap to buy samples I like – my recent haul shown above.

Small Bites #7

Fashion illustration by Lovisa Burfitt.

For the first time, MOMA has an online exhibition – Color Chart. Nice for those of us who are not a L train ride away. Really well-done flash site.

Observation: there must be a two fauxhawk minimum every season on Top Chef.

Unexpected Color Palette

I was creating a color palette for a client today, and these were some of the colors I discarded. But I liked them together. Perhaps some subconscious influence from Prada's nouveau prints or Jillian Tamaki's illustration that I have as my desktop wallpaper.

Happy Friday

I'm feeling better already. :)

Obsessive Consumption.

The uproar over Pantone's color of the year at NYTimes. Pantone didn't bother to take into account a.) influence of '80's colors in fashion at this moment b.) the fact that blue is generally a favorite color in the US anyway, or c.) that the color kinda sucks.

Color Monkey

OK, there's been a lot of food and not much design so if you're getting a little full, here's a palate cleanser. From time to time I'll post some color studies I've been working on called Color Monkey. This month's is "O.D." I have Pantone equivalents and mini-palettes worked out. If you're interested, leave a comment and I'll post them.