Is total digital color communication a practical alternative to physical color standards? When faced with short deadlines and time constraints it becomes all too easy to choose colors solely from a computer rather than using physical standards. What must be considered is the color information that is lost with this short cut is ultimately going [...]
On April 10th 1912 the latest addition to the White Star fleet of luxury liners sailed out of Southampton on her maiden voyage to New York. The liner had been built at the world famous Harland & Wolff shipyard in Belfast and was designed to be “unsinkable” with sixteen watertight compartments running the length of [...]
I love the Christmas holidays. For the vast majority of my working life I have taken the week before and after off. I love the bright Christmas colors and the crowds at the shopping centers. Christmas music is something I look forward to for eleven months of the year. The feeling of gratitude and generosity [...]
Interesting question - How is color like an iceberg? Is it the many shades of blue or the hues of white, or possibly the streaks of brown that make icebergs so beautiful? That is part of it of course. Color is visual and hopefully, so are icebergs. The comparison is more than the obvious, it is also [...]
My wife and I have been happily married for 40 years. And it truly has been a happy 40 years, well at least for me. For our 40th anniversary, we decided to take a trip. We decided that Nashville was the place we wanted to visit. Nancy wanted to stay at the Grand Ole Opry [...]
Looking at the psychological aspects of Red and Yellow why do you think so many fast food chains use them as brand color. Yellow While it is considered an optimistic color, people lose their tempers more often in yellow rooms, and babies will cry more. Red The most emotionally intense color, red stimulates a faster [...]
Digging deeper in a South African cave that had already yielded surprises from the Middle Stone Age, archaeologists have uncovered a 100,000-year-old workshop holding the tools and ingredients with which early modern humans apparently mixed some of the first known paint. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/14/science/14paint.html It is amazing that for 100,000 years we have been communicating our stories [...]
