MetaFilter posts tagged with color and design

Postcards from Israel (or stamps, anyway).

sarabeth — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 16:19:58 -0800

Postcards from Israel (or stamps, anyway). COLOURlovers (previously) has posted a set of color palettes drawn from designer and blogger Karen Horton's flickr collection of vintage Israeli postage stamps. This isn't the first time COLOURlovers has featured color inspiration drawn from vintage sources--previously, the site posted palettes taken from Depression-era color photographs in the archives of The Library of Congress.

Limits

carbide — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 13:06:43 -0800

The value of limits, expressed through the process of a four-year-old making a painting. UNIFORM Studio journal is written by Martha, who makes clothes as well as architecture, and records the process behind her clothing designs along with reflections on the things, textures, light and ideas around her. Also, the painting's pretty sweet.

Not All Black & White

Gyan — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 08:24:50 -0800

Using Color In Information Display Graphics - a resource from NASA, "intended to help designers who are not color experts find usable color designs" [via] ~~Sounds~~Looks like a good jumping point to point out great and not-so-great examples of the colored web.

Make your own cool, colorific card holders

taz — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 05:21:48 -0800

DIY business card holders from paint chips from industrial designer Aaron Tang at designverb, step by step.

If You're Into Colors Check Out Kuler

rmmcclay — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 07:41:36 -0800

Everyone needs more Kuler. There a lot of color pickers out there...and I generally like all of them...but Kuler takes things a step further by making a community of color and color themes. Of course it's tied with their products but that doesn't distract from the usefulness of this free online application. It is also a beautifully designed website both in form and function.

exploring color

crunchland — Fri, 24 Oct 2003 22:04:19 -0800

exploring color ... online utility to help room designers (and maybe even web designers) choose the right color for their project.

joeclark — Tue, 27 Feb 2001 13:59:34 -0800

Grrrlz R the future of computerz! A suprisingly warm-hearted and atypically unguyish analysis of the “ridiculous” new iMac colours and what they represent for future computer use. If Apple blew it by not letting teenage boys play games, are they smart to make iMacs attractive to sensitive, design-focused people (including grrrlz) as so-called digital hubs? Or will the boyz shoot ’em up on Wintel while the grrrlz rip boy-band MP3s on groovy iMacs? (My claim: Bondi blue remains the bestest iMac shade ever. Discuss.)