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the joy of books
Click here to view the embedded video. This joyful video is making plenty of news today and for good reason. It is a happy maker! A few months ago, I posted a stop-motion video by Canadian designers...
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Click here to view the embedded video. It’s hard to go to a grocery store’s vegetable section or a farmer’s market and not be astounded by the vibrant hues of fruits and vegetables. This advert for...
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more4 logo & rebrand
Click here to view the embedded video. More4, a UK television channel, has a smashing new logo and identity that manages to be slick, modern, colourful and a bit magical. Yes, the combination is...
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round hill music identity
I’m a big fan of bold branding and the recent trend of more flexible, customizable features like stickers, stamps and tape. The identity for Round Hill Music, a boutique music rights company with a...
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colour changes everything
Click here to view the embedded video. A colourful troupe runs around town infusing hue into interiors, wardrobes, cosmetics and mundane corners of life? Yep, I love this commercial for Target by...
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oscars fashion 2012 {colour commentary}
Watching the Oscars and its red carpet of fashion has to be a high point of February. What colour trends emerged victorious on Hollywood’s biggest night of the year? I would say winter white was the...
View Articlespectrum cube
Click here to view the embedded video. If you’re like me, you might have double digit browser windows open at any given time. Don’t even get me started on the number of tabs I manage to create. The...
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love in the afternoon, 1957
I have been meaning to do a post on Saul Bass as he is a true colour and design hero of mine. I spotted this poster for 1957 film Love in the Afternoon today and couldn’t resist posting it. Gorgeous...
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dancing through colour
Click here to view the embedded video. I think music videos have so much potential to be beautiful, stirring, innovative pieces of art. Lately, they feel more like repetitive product placements than...
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breakfast at tiffany’s, 1961 {palette of the week}
The first time I watched Breakfast at Tiffany’s, I was blown away by how beautiful, vibrant and timeless the colour palette was. Actually, the entire design of the film, from the half bathtub couch to...
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black rainbow
Designed by Studio Iknoki, I love this packaging for the album “Black Rainbow” by band Aucan. The Italian studio took a series of coloured smoke photographs at night and in the rain “trying to...
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try and try and try
Click here to view the embedded video. I love music videos. Yes, the genre is littered with some rather disturbing commercialization, repetitive imagery and soulless preening BUT I still believe there...
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bbc asian network, summer of music
Click here to view the embedded video. Click here to view the embedded video. Vibrantly coloured powders and spices exploding on a pounding bass speaker? Um, can I sign up twice? I love this identity...
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salience
Click here to view the embedded video. It seems that coloured powder has gone from somewhat trendy to an artful and adaptable material, ripe for experimentation (and I’m first in line to cheer on that...
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looks like music
Click here to view the embedded video. ‘Looks Like Music’, an installation at MUDAM Luxembroug by Japanese designer Yuri Suzuki, is one intriguing look at colour and music. Yuri created the Colour...
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colour crazy + j.crew
Click here to view the embedded video. Not that long ago, I read a short feature about the colour library at J.Crew headquarters including how each hue is brainstormed, named and archived. My colour...
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