Vintage Color Design: Advertisements [feedly]

Vintage Color Design: Advertisements

Color inspirations by way of advertisements from the 50's and 60's.

Many of these great ads were selected from an inspiring post by the design blog WellMedicated and the others from flickr. Image source links can be found by clicking on the images themselves.


sprite

VW_bus_ad

suit_ad

lamp_ad


color,_everyone

air_canada

sony_ad

angry_young_computer


Eclectic Color Roundup [feedly]

Eclectic Color Roundup
Here???s a roundup of the most colorful art, products, websites and such that I???ve come across in the last week.

Products

Colorful Cable Organizers

zhoinnovation.com; sternform.de Get your life together. These colorful cable managers will help.

Art

Marker Art by Daniel Eatock

eatock.com Prismacolor Pen Print: complete set of 156 Prismacolor Markers (arranged following manufacturer???s numbered color chart) held within inverted glasses, one ream of 25??? x 38??? uncoated, 40 lb. paper, divided into two stacks. This work is adapted from Pantone Pen Print a 2006 edition of a total of 73 prints using a full set of Pantone markers. Over the course of the exhibition the paper absorbed the ink from the pens, the sheets near the top of stack soaked up more ink than those further away from the tips. The result is an edition of organically related prints, each unique. The ink soaked through 31 sheets. The edition number and price of the each diptych was determined and equal to the number of layers the ink penetrated. Felt-Tip Print: made by repeatedly balancing a single A1 sheet of paper on the nibs of a set of Pantone pens.

Installations by Katrin Olina

katrin-olina.com Colorful graphic installations that covers walls, floors and ceilings. Via cooked brains

Running With the Beast by Roel Wouters

xelor.nl For zZz's release of their new album 'Running with the Beast,' Roel Wouters created this intriguing video of "two artists who have created the conditions to capture rage in a systematic way." *update 12/8/08: I removed the film 'Running with the Beast' due to its unpleasant nature, as it involves a cockfight as the mode of color application on the print. The film can be found at Roel Wouter's page or the link below to those still interested. My hosting of the film was in no way to support or promote cockfighting only to showcase current work from a relevant video artist. http://www.xelor.nl/xelor/pile.php?item=RwtB Here are some other colorful examples of Roel's work:

Eclectic Color Roundup [feedly]

Eclectic Color Roundup

Here???s a roundup of the most colorful art, products, websites and such that I???ve come across in the last week.

Art

Water Splash Photography by Fotoopa

fotoopa; fotoopa.smugmug.com

These incredible photos by flickr user fotoopa are captured with the help of some homemade hardware and lasers, or something.

Colored waterfigures: Tools used are a homemade hardware controller with an Altera FPGA chip (DE1 terasic board) 2 lasers are used for the detection. Multiple flashes are used. The controller calculate the delay timings, power for the waves on the speaker, camera control and flashes.

A hightech laser system, multiple tools, multiple flashes freeze the action. Most pictures are generated from waves to form the figures. Combination of falling objects and formed shapes give nice pictures.

Via designboom

Hoagy Houghton: Aleatory Composistions

hoagyhoughton.co.uk;

???Aleatory Compositions???: A book of musical work, unwittingly written by people filling in colours onto a grid which were then translated into musical notes.

All art is connected, just as are all human senses. By taking one medium generally ruled by one sense (colour and the eye) and transcribing it into another (music and the ear) he???s created an almost simulated synaesthesia. A sonic and visual switch-out that highlights the beauty of colour that lives within music, and visually manifests the inherent sonic shapes that live within music. Add on some hot design to polish the whole concept off and voil??. Pure win.

Via shape + colour

Products

???Babel??? Tables by Fredrik Mattson

fredrikmattson.se; blastation.se

Tables with columns of rings in compression moulded birch veneer, lacquered tabletops and steel covered foot plates, black lacquere or chromed finish. Each ring builds 95 mm. Seven standard heights, other heights available for projects.

Vintage Color Design: Pink Fabric [feedly]

Vintage Color Design: Pink Fabric

Continuing our vintage fabric series, today we're looking at some great color inspiration from a collection of pink vintage fabrics. This collection, along with plenty of other fine image sets, can be found here, and were put together by True Up, which happens to be wonderful resource for fabric news.


pinkgreen_dominoes

pink__navy_floral

pink__rose_floral

musical_bears