via how about orangeDownload PANTONE iPhone, iPad, and desktop wallpapers in your choice of six hues, here.
Wednesday, June 8, 2011
Pantone desktop wallpapers
via how about orangeDownload PANTONE iPhone, iPad, and desktop wallpapers in your choice of six hues, here.
Tuesday, June 7, 2011
Image of the Day: Mathematics League Patch
Monday, June 6, 2011
Sleep May Restore Color Perception
via colourlovers“Color perception drifts away from neutrality during wakefulness and is restored during sleep, suggests a research abstract presented in at SLEEP 2010, the 24th annual meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies LLC. Results indicate that prior wakefulness caused the color gray to be classified as having a slightly but significantly greenish tint. Overnight sleep restored perception to achromatic equilibrium so that gray was perceived as gray...”
Read the rest here.
Sunday, June 5, 2011
Indigo: The Colour that Seduced the World
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| Indigo by Catherine E McKinley will be published in August 2011 |
via delancyplace
“Until the most recent times, color dyes were rare and precious commodities upon which power and fortunes were built. Indigo, the brilliant blue dye made from plants, was one of America's slavery-based cash crops. But long before it was exported by America, indigo dye had been one of the world's great treasures for thousands of years. Referred to by some as blue gold, it caught the imagination of connoisseurs, and merchants and colonialists with its power to bewitch and its transcendent beauty — and the value and demand for indigo became ungovernable. It sparked bitter trade wars, and touched off impassioned European and North American legislation and political debate and became known as The Devil’s Dye.”
Read the rest here.
Making Faces: Metal Type in the 21st Century
via nytimes“Making Faces: Metal Type in the 21st Century is a new documentary by Richard Kegler. It is a video document of the late Jim Rimmer, the Canadian designer of almost 200 typefaces. In the film, Rimmer, who died in 2010, painstakingly demonstrates the lost art of pantographic type making. The pantograph is a mechanical device, based on parallelograms, which allows the movement of one pen, in tracing an image, to replicate that movement with a second pen. A craftsperson can draw on one side at a particular size, and on the other the type is “reproduced” at a chosen point size…”
“Is producing this display of vintage technology simply hanging on to the old for dear life, or is there a good reason for designers to know these processes? Kegler responds: “In any field of expertise there is a history and a cumulative reason that things are the way they are. How many Adobe Illustrator users know that kerning, leading, picas and points are terms that should have absolutely no relevance on the computer, but do, since they are direct analogies to the terms and processes of hundreds of years ago? The more time that designers spend on the screen, the more valuable the hand processes become. There is great subtlety and unique flavor in heirloom typefaces.”
Read more about the making of the documentary here, the DVD is available for order here, and the blog of Making Faces is here.
It’s hard to throw away a race number...
via the mehallo blogTurn your Tivek racing numbers into custom clothing; a cap or windbreaker. By Rick at ElevenGear.
Info/order here.
99 Bottles; Their Caps on the Wall
via things neatly organized“Arizona-based artist, William LeGoullon collected 99 bottle caps from one of his state’s remaining drive-in movie theaters as part of his Intermission series.”
See more of his work here.
Saturday, June 4, 2011
Friday, June 3, 2011
Jim Cosgrove: No Mother Could Give More
via NPR“This is egg laying season, if you're a bird. If you're an octopus, particularly a giant Pacific octopus, you've been there, done that. In fact, you died doing it, in what is the saddest mommy story I've heard in a long while. It comes from biologist Jim Cosgrove who describes it all in a lecture he calls, “No Mother Could Give More.’ ”
Read the rest here.
The Art Of Reproduction: 17 Ladies with Ermines
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| Lady With Ermine by Leonardo Da Vinci |
via Visual Hint: Color of Data
“The web can seem like the perfect museum, holding all the world’s art. Type ‘Danae Klimt’ into your favorite search engine, and you conjure up a high-resolution image of Gustav Klimt’s Danaë: tan limbs, a shower of gold, red hair. Or did you find pink limbs? Or were they gray or even green? There’s the rub: the seemingly perfect museum holds dozens of Danaës—with dozens of different palettes. Even the shape changes as reproductions are subtly cropped.
Curious just how far reproductions stray from each other, we began an investigation. For a set of famous artworks, we downloaded all the plausible copies we could find. Then we wrote software to reconstruct each artwork as a mosaic, a patchwork quilt where each patch comes from an individual copy.
The discontinuities of color, texture and frame tell the story of the inaccuracies in reproduction, forming a tapestry of beautiful half-truths...”
Read the rest here, and visit the site here.
Thursday, June 2, 2011
Celebrating Linotype, 125 Years Since Its Debut
via the atlantic“Around for a century, Linotype machines were made obsolete in the 1970s by changing technologies -- but they have not been forgotten…”
Read the rest here.
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