'Humanae' Portraits Match People of Different Ethnicities With Their Pantone Color Brazilian fine art photographer Angelica Dass‘ series Humanae identifies portrait subjects from around the world using the Pantone color system. Using an 11×11 pixel swatch from her subjects’ faces, Dass matches them to corresponding Pantone colors, creating an abundant and unique catalog of skin tones that reflects the world’s diversity beyond the categorizations we have long been confined to. We recently asked her more about the ongoing project. What was your inspiration for using Pantone colors to represent humans? “If what I wanted was to destroy the concepts of colors associated with race, such as red, yellow, white and black, it would not be logical to use a color scale that works with percentages of these colors. That’s why I chose not to use CMYK or RGB. How do you go about finding subjects for your work and what are the criteria you are looking for? Since the Pantone system is a highly structured and ordered system, how does your display of the work relate to this system?
The Paradox of Art as Work Photo There are few modern relationships as fraught as the one between art and money. Are they mortal enemies, secret lovers or perfect soul mates? Is the bond between them a source of pride or shame, a marriage of convenience or something tawdrier? The way we habitually think and talk about these matters betrays a deep and venerable ambivalence. On one hand, art is imagined to exist in a realm of value that lies beyond and beneath mere economic considerations. On the other hand, money is now an important measure — maybe the supreme measure — of artistic accomplishment. Everyone might be sure that sales are not the only criterion of success, but no one is quite certain what the others might be, or how, in our data-obsessed era, they might be measured. In the popular imagination, artists tend to exist either at the pinnacle of fame and luxury or in the depths of penury and obscurity — rarely in the middle, where most of the rest of us toil and dream. But it is, nonetheless, a job.
Postcards for Ants: A 365-Day Miniature Painting Project by Lorraine Loots Postcards for Ants is an ongoing painting project by Cape Town artist Lorraine Loots who has been creating a miniature painting every single day since January 1, 2013. The artist works with paint brushes, pencils, and bare eyes to render superbly detailed paintings scarcely larger than a small coin. After the first year, Loots relaunched the project in a second phase inspired by Cape Town’s designation as World Design Capital 2014. On her website you can “reserve” a future painting (it’s all booked up for this year), and she’s also printed five limited edition postcards for each day. You can watch her work and hear a bit more about her inspiration in the video below by Gareth Pon, and she also regularly updates on Facebook. Hopefully we’ll see a 2015 project?
Colorblind People Experiencing Colors Dans le cadre de la campagne « Color for all » de Valspar, cette marque de peinture et le fabriquant de lunettes EnChroma se sont associés pour créer un documentaire extrêmement émouvant. Grâce à une paire de lunettes spécialement conçue par EnChroma, ils ont permis à des daltoniens de voir en couleurs pour la première fois de leur vie.
10 Shocking Photos That Will Change How You See Consumption And Waste As individual and anonymous consumers, it's seemingly impossible to even estimate the physical ramifications of our daily consumption and waste. While our personal imprints may not seem in themselves worthy of alarm, the combined effect of human's habits and rituals is hard to look away from. Cell phones #2, Atlanta 2005 Photographer Chris Jordan works with the debris we as a society leave behind, photographing massive dumps of cell phones, crushed cars and circuit boards. Squished together in dizzying quantities, the discarded goods resemble hypnotic puzzles, abstracted color fields and hallucinatory fractals. Jordan compares the complex layers of wreckage to the overwhelming detail of the Grand Canyon. The series, dubbed "Intolerable Beauty: Portraits of American Mass Consumption," shows the unmistakable imprint of our American culture in all its horror and strange, dark appeal. Crushed Cars, Tacoma 2004 Steel Shred, Tacoma 2004
Each Week, Two Anonymous Students Named Dangerdust Create This Amazing Chalkboard Art At the Columbus College of Art and Design, two rogue college students are creating quite a stir… but not by any normal means. They aren’t cheating or stealing, they are causing a creative riot. The anonymous duo, who go by the name Dangerdust, sneak into a classroom each week and create a masterpiece out of nothing but chalk. The pair are both seniors in Advertising & Graphic Design, and they are probably busy with a larger than life course-load, but they still remain passionate about their weekly chalk art. These two create some of the most beautiful (and inspiring) art you’ll ever see. On Sunday or Monday nights, the magic happens. The pair selects a vacant classroom. Then, they get to work. They complete each masterpiece in one fell swoop. It can take up to 11 HOURS to finish one of their designs. “They choose a quote from a list compiled from Google searches and suggestions from friends, draw up a rough sketch, and then get to work using regular chalk.” Even Dr. We need more of THIS!
Shape of eye's 'light pipes' is key to colour sorting Physicists have pinned down precisely how pipe-shaped cells in our retina filter the incoming colours. These cells, which sit in front of the ones that actually sense light, play a major role in our colour vision that was only recently confirmed. They funnel crucial red and green light into cone cells, leaving blue to spill over and be sensed by rod cells - which are responsible for our night vision. Key to this process, researchers now say, is the exact shape of the pipes. The long, thin cells are known as "Muller glia" and they were originally thought to play more of a supporting role in the retina. They clear debris, store energy and generally keep the conditions right for other cells - like the rods and cones behind them - to turn light into electrical signals for the brain. But a study published last year confirmed the idea, proposed in earlier simulations, that Muller cells also function rather like optical fibres. 'Centuries-old puzzle' "This kind of clinched it," he said. Light guides
The Endless Possibilities of Paper Paper is one of the world’s definitive materials. Books, letters, paintings, magazines – everything really good starts with paper. Yet in an increasingly digitised world, where email is king and video rules the Turner Prize, is it a material that is becoming obsolete? Paper Play, a wonderful new book published by Sandu, is arguing eloquently and beautifully against this notion, showcasing an array of artists who manipulate paper in fantastically varied ways. Here we present a selection of beautiful works from Paper Play, alongside an interview with the paper artist Alice von Maltzahn, whose gorgeously intricate pieces feature in the book. What started you working with paper? How does the creative process come about for you? Your work is extraordinary because the pieces are at once creations and destructions, a piece of paper being carved up to become something else - is there a sense of destruction that informs their creation? How is it working with such delicacy and precision?
9 great color resources | Design Colour is an integral element of design. And the web is full of endless resources and tutorials covering it. But, sometimes too much choice can be confusing. So we've picked this selection of the best resources that will really help you to get to grips with the subject. 01. The Mudcube Colour Sphere is a handy little colour resource for designers in that it not only provides the hex numbers for each colour; it also helps you to build up a colour scheme from one chosen shade. 02. Color by HaliPixel is a handy little web app if you're a bit of a perfectionist when it comes to getting the colour just right. 03. This web designer's tool Check my Colours is designed to check foreground and background colour combinations of all DOM elements, to determine if they provide sufficient contrast when viewed by someone having colour deficits. 04. Although Color Hunter may not look like much at first glance, it's actually a really useful colour tool if you can't find a particular colour. 05. 06. 07.
Portraits in Creativity Risorse creative per i webdesigners Il mestiere del web designer è evoluto molto negli ultimi tempi. Da che questa figura professionale doveva saper fare ogni cosa, dal design alla programmazione, oggi, fortunatamente, il web designer ha il privilegio di potersi concentrare sopratutto sull'aspetto creativo e quindi sul design vero e proprio delle pagine web. Tante risorse a pagamento o gratuite possono aiutare il web designer in questo compito e oggi vi segnaliamo alcune di queste, ovviamente free. 1. Paletton Generatore di schemi di colore motlo facile da usare. 2. Non è la prima volta che parliamo nei nostri corsi di web design di questo sito-community,dove potete trovare migliaia di schemi di colore per i vostri progetti di web design, realizzati da altri creativi di talento. 3. Ti piace un'immagine e vuoi estrarne i colori? 4. Verifica se stai usando il giusto grado di contrasto nei tuoi progetti di web design. 5. Non ha bisogno di spiegazioni l'app ufficiale dell'Adobe per creare palette dei colori
Color Inspiration from the Masters of Painting by COLOURlovers The world has seen thousands of artists and millions of great pieces of art, but we chose just a handful of pieces of art from some of greatest masters of painting to show a little of how they were inspired by color... or perhaps, how they inspire us with color. What colors inspire you? Check out Creative Market to find your color palette now. Lezioni di fotografia | Profilo Colore Profilo Colore Così come la scelta del formato di file che andremo a creare può avere un impatto anche notevole sul risultato finale che otterremo, per completare il capitolo delle impostazioni pre-scatto è bene che si comprenda anche il concetto di "spazio colore". Senza entrare troppo nello scientifico, possiamo definire lo Spazio Colore come la mappatura di un determinato modello di colori astratto. Un modello colore non è nient'altro che un modo per rappresentare i colori tramite una combinazione di numeri, detti componenti colore. I modelli colore più utilizzati nell'ambito fotografico e informatico sono i modelli RGB e CMYK. Poichè il modello quadricromatico CMYK è un modello utilizzato principalmente in ambito di stampa, ci concentreremo ora solo sul modello RGB. Uno Spazio Colore è quindi un "sottoinsieme" di un determinato modello di colore, che permette di identificarne una porzione ben definita che viene definita gamma (gamut). sRGB Adobe RGB