“Piet Mondrian should feel flattered: people can tell the real thing from a slightly altered version — just. Chris McManus, a psychologist at University College London, took studies by the giant of post impressionism, altered the balance of composition a little with a computer, and tested them on the public.”

“The manager at the Chanel boutique on Madison Avenue, when asked for handbags with logos on them, glanced around the shop — for the first time in decades almost bare of big initials — and opened a floor-to-ceiling mirrored cabinet. There, hidden from the customers who did not ask for them, were rows of purses emblazoned with CCs at least six inches tall.”

“Pantone owns the monopoly on every tint, tone, and shade you’ve ever seen. Now it wants to control the colors you’ll see in the future… Though Pantone doesn’t sell inks, dyes, or paints, it has come to hold a monopoly on color. Of course, frequencies of light, like naturally occurring sounds, are free for anyone to use. But Pantone owns their names — or, more specifically, their designated numbers and spectro-photometric descriptions.”

“Colour is something we take for granted, it’s all around us. Using colour effectively to enhance communications is not quite so simple. Most people understand about warm colours and cool colours but the important thing about colours, is that they are seldom seen in isolation, they are seen in the context of other colours around them and that affects them all.”

“For the first time in animation history, the public will now be able to watch an entire animated feature, HAIR HIGH, being drawn before their eyes, live on the internet. Tune in between 10am and 6pm EST to see Bill at work!”

“Colour is something we take for granted, it+s all around us. Using colour effectively to enhance communications is not quite so simple. Most people understand about warm colours and cool colours but the important thing about colours, is that they are seldom seen in isolation, they are seen in the context of other colours around them and that affects them all.”

Warning: This link will resize your browser window. “For an experiment a number of people were asked to draw a jug on a piece of paper. All the pieces of paper were of the same size and shape. After the drawings had been collected the same people were asked to draw the same jug again, with the sheet of paper turned by 90 degrees.”

It’s all in Spanish, but the great newspaper El Mundo has posted all their interactive graphics from their news stories.

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