13 articles in this selection

2010/08/26

Those of you who watch a lot of Hollywood movies may have noticed a certain trend that has consumed the industry in the last few years. It is one of the most insidious and heinous practices that has ever overwhelmed the industry. Am I talking about the lack of good scripts? Do I speak of the dependency of a few mega-blockbuster hits to save the studios each year, or of the endless sequels and television retreads? No, I am talking about something much more dangerous, much deadlier to the health of cinema. I speak of course, of THE COLOR GRADING VIRUS THAT IS TEAL & ORANGE!!!...

2010/08/14

It’s late at night during these last few days before Christmas. You’re bathed in the ghostly glow of your laptop computer at your kitchen table. As you shop on the Internet, you think you’re safely beyond retailers’ manipulative grasp. Thing is, you’re not. As much as brick-and-mortar shoppers can be influenced by a store’s layout and the product placement within, so can online shoppers with the design of a retailer’s Web site....

2010/08/11

In 1909 the millionaire French banker and philanthropist Albert Kahn embarked on an ambitious project to create a colour photographic record of, and for, the peoples of the world. As an idealist and an internationalist, Kahn believed that he could use the new autochrome process, the world's first user-friendly, true-colour photographic system, to promote cross-cultural peace and understanding. Kahn used his vast fortune to send a group of intrepid photographers to more than fifty countries around the world, often at crucial junctures in their history, when age-old cultures were on the brink of being changed for ever by war and the march of twentieth-century globalisation. They documented in true colour the collapse of both the Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman empires; the last traditional Celtic villages in Ireland, just a few years before they were demolished; and the soldiers of the First World War — in the trenches, and as they cooked their meals and laundered their uniforms behind the...

2010/08/11

The Prokudin-Gorskii Photographic Record Recreated (A Library of Congress Exhibition). Color photographs from Tsarist Russia.

2010/05/16

Ever notice how people texting at night have that eerie blue glow? Or wake up ready to write down the Next Great Idea, and get blinded by your computer screen? During the day, computer screens look good—they're designed to look like the sun. But, at 9PM, 10PM, or 3AM, you probably shouldn't be looking at the sun. F.lux fixes this: it makes the color of your computer's display adapt to the time of day, warm at night and like sunlight during the day. It's even possible that you're staying up too late because of your computer. You could use f.lux because it makes you sleep better, or you could just use it just because it makes your computer look better....

2009/05/11

2009/05/05

Color photographs from World War 2.

2009/03/10

A freeware add-on for Windows lets you mark folders with color-coded icons to make a search for important information a "one-glance" affair.

2009/03/10

LabelsWin (tm) is a unique add-on for Windows Explorer that allows assigning of colour labels to file and folder icons. This feature appeared in Mac OS first, and remained unavailable in Windows until now. This is how colored file and folder icons look in Winsows XP Explorer....

2008/10/15

Huge collection of web design, development, marketing and website maintenance resources.

2008/10/10

If you're tackling some graphic design project or maybe even your wall decor, getting color hints from ready made color templates from professional designers can be useful. Below are 10 of the better sites to help you out on your design challenge.

2008/07/28

Lucky for me, there are a lot of helpful tools that can turn color coordination nightmares into a dream come true If you’re in the same boat as I am, have a look at some of these sites I unearthed from my bookmarks.

2008/07/28

Generates a color scheme randomly or based on a basecolor.