Entries tagged “color”
PANTONE 17-1463 Tangerine Tango, “Color of the Year for 2012”
“…Over the past several years, orange has grown in popularity and acceptance among designers and consumers alike. A provocative attention-getter, Tangerine Tango is especially appealing in men’s and women’s fashion…” —press release
Mary Blair’s 100th birthday anniversary is honored with a colorful Google Doodle logo. The Walt Disney storyboard artist, born on October 21st, 1911, is fondly remembered for her often whimsical, illustrative style in children’s books (notably Little Golden), advertisements, and concept art for classic Walt Disney animated films. And she especially was known for her wonderful use of color, as highlighted in a new Oscars tribute video.
“…Although Mary Blair is perhaps best known for the design of Disneyland’s “it’s a small world” attraction and park murals, her concept artwork for “Cinderella,” “Alice in Wonderland” and “Peter Pan” in the 1950s, as well as for earlier short subjects, reflects her unique sensibility and lasting influence on animation…”
—The Academy on Mary Blair’s World of Color - A Centennial Tribute
Karlsson Table Clock Book on a bookshelf
(photograph taken by Shokoofeh Z.Dezfuli)
Center Of Attention is the online personal collection of Simon Foster’s vintage record center labels. Though the site has a neat arrangement of record album sleeves, the colorful array of graphics, logos and art on the 7” center labels made this resource unique. If only it also included the names of the designers behind them…
(first discovered via grain edit)
book illustrations by Rudolf Mates for A Forest Story c. 1929
(first discovered via A Journey Round My Skull)
Steven Heller reviews the new Taschen edition of The First Six Books of the Elements of Euclid: In Which Coloured Diagrams and Symbols are Used Instead of Letters for the Greater Ease of Learners.
also see original book c. 1847
(first discovered via Forms and Functions / NYTimes.com)
Rachel Berger’s 100 Colors, 100 Writings, 100 Days,
a project “generated in Michael Bierut’s 100 Day Workshop at the Yale School of Art”
(discovered via Design Observer)
photo by grégoire alexandre
(via totes, antje, superselect)
Vintage Color & Design: Fortune Magazine
(discovered via COLOURlovers)
What is the color of the Internet? (discovered via one floor up)
