Tag: Color
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Vienna Calling: Atelier Olschinsky
When Yeats wrote that “love comes in at the eye,” he could have been thinking of the work of Vienna-based Atelier Olschinsky. Peter Olschinsky and Verena Weiss are operating in various fields such as graphic design, illustration, photography and art direction. It doesn’t matter who the client is. It doesn’t matter what the medium is.…
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Design Army – Color Fuels Our Minds
“Color makes us feel alive. It fuels our minds, connects spirits, and feeds imaginations,” say Pum and Jake LeFebure, a design duo known predominantly for their layouts and publications. “It is everywhere when you look around. Everything on the planet is a color.” “Color is everywhere when you look around. Everything on the planet is…
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The Reincarnation of Vasarely
“A good pattern is about harmony in all of its elements – form, colour, composition, etc.” If you like colourful patterns, Andy Gilmore’s will probably be your cup of tea. A master of color and geometric composition, Andy Gilmore’s work is often characterized as kaleidoscopic and hypnotic, though it could just as well be described…
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Tradition vs. Modernity in Shanghai: Maleonn
Ma Liang, also known as Maleonn (1972 Shanghai), is a talented Chinese photographer who has gained a kind of cult following because of his fable like photographs. His images, in color and black and white, are often created with props, actors and a strange mix of hues, colors and theatrical sets. A graduate of the…
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The Colorful World of Kustaa Saksi
Color is at once both the most subjective and the most universal of design elements. For most of us, there is no particular rationale behind what we regard as our ‘favorite’ colours. But for a designer, making the right choice of color combinations can mean the difference between success and failure. Kustaa Saksi shows us…