Straightforward or complex, subtle or brash, warm or cool – colour has many faces. Because of this, it’s a hard thing to define.
If you turn to a dictionary in hopes of finding some clarification, you’ll see a definition similar to this:
1. an attribute of things that results from the light they reflect, transmit or emit in so far as this light causes a visual sensation that depends on its wavelengths.
Not terribly helpful, is it?
It becomes easier to define colour when you take a closer look at its origins, history and meanings. And let’s not forget those who create, communicate or influence through colour – there’s lots to learn from them too.
COLOUR STUDIES is intended to be an exploration – so please join me as I examine these elements, and others, from the engrossing and informative world of colour.
Colour Studies is now a book! Available online and in bookstores.
Colour infuses our lives with meaning, manifesting in science, language, design, pop culture and beyond. From blue lobsters to purple chickens. Eric the Red to Carl "White Eagle" Barnes. Pink locker rooms to yellow airplanes. Jockey silks to wedding dresses. Read the stories and histories behind a wide range of eye-catching hues. Published by Chronicle Books.
