I really like to make paint sample card collages and my studio walls are covered with them. I think it’s because the cutting and assembling shapes and proportions causes me to see new ways colours work together and relate to one another. Also, cutting and glueing is super-relaxing work.
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Making Friday: Paint swatch collages
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Wardrobe Snacks
Stylist Michelle Maguire and photographer Kelsey McClellan got together to create a photographic series called Wardrobe Snacks, inspired by quiet moments of casual (and colour-coded) culinary enjoyment. McClellan says that “Wardrobe Snacks was inspired by diners lacking the luxury of being seated at a table. They’re informal — perhaps even a bit awkward — spaces as …
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Feeling bold
The New York home of Design Miami art director Rodman Primack, featured in AD Spain is quite a feast for the eyes, isn’t it? Crazy as it may appear, it is no simple feat to create a space with SO MUCH pattern and colour (not to speak of scale and texture!). I felt inspired to …
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Interaction of Colour: New Complete Edition
I got an Amazon email the other day letting me now that Josef Albers Interaction of Colour has been released in a new, complete edition. Two volumes, hardbound, published by Yale University Press. Deliciousness! First issued in 1963 as a limited-edition set of 150 silkscreened colour plates, Interaction of Colour has been one of the …
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Colour Yum: From above
The image above of tulip fields in Lisse, Netherlands comes from the book Overview: New Perspective of Earth by Benjamin Grant, which I discovered in an extraordinary post on Yellowtrace about arial photographs of the earth. I’ve picked out some particularly fascinatingly colourful ones to share here, but highly recommend visiting the original post on Yellowtrace …
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Colour Yum: Flowers
I met friends at Chart Farm last weekend, and when my photo of a rose turned out looking so oddly colourized, 50’s style (no filters, just the light), I took some of my other flower pics and dipped them in a saturated colour rinse-out, just for fun. Sometimes mixing things up is a good way …
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Thinking Pink
Looking for a sweetly feminine selection of Skinny laMinx goods? We’ve put some ideas together in our Gift Guide this week, and more here too: Breeze Coasters I’langa Chair in Flower Fields Table Runner in Ovals Soft Buckets in Orla and Flower Fields Tray in Tall Protea Change Purse in Orla Teatowel in Borrowed Spoons Table Mountain …
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Colour Yum: Soft & sweet Jaipur
Soft, sweet colours, delicate shapes and textures – these are the things I noticed in Jaipur in 2014 , which was my first trip with Ace Camps, and these first impressions were reinforced on my recent trip.
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Colour Yum: Concrete & Sage
It’s that time of year again when you’ve got to get your gift-shopping game on again. All the people you know – the Hip Mama, the Design Bloke, the Weekend Chef, your Best Friend, the Kids Who Have Everything – they all need a gift this Festive season. Well, we know these people too, cos we see …
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