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Color
 Websites presented in alphabetical order Color Chart: Reinventing Color, 1950 to Today 
 Companion to a 2008 exhibition that "takes as its point of departure the commercial color chart, an item that openly declares the status of color as mass-produced and standardized. ... This exhibit features the work of forty-four artists who take a position in which art and life mingle rather than remain separate." View works by artist, medium, or time period. Artists include Ellsworth Kelly and Sol LeWitt. From the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). http://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/2008/colorchart/flashsite/index.html Topics: Art Last updated Apr 23, 2009 Color Worqx
This well-illustrated tutorial on color theory and the use of color in the "design of visual documents," including Web sites, is offered as part of a commercial web designer's "showcase." http://www.worqx.com/color/ Topics: Art Last updated Jan 12, 2003 Fashion in Colors
Companion to an exhibit that "explores color as a design element through 300 years of Western clothing, examining the changing perceptions and meanings of color through various eras. More than 60 costumes are on display, ranging from eighteenth-century court gowns to couture creations by twentieth-century masters such as Balenciaga, Vionnet, Chanel, and Watanabe." Take a virtual tour and find designer profiles with images of selected clothing. From the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum. http://www.cooperhewitt.org/EXHIBITIONS/fashion_in_colors/ Topics: Art, Fashion Last updated Apr 13, 2009 Pantone: Color Think Tank
Pantone "is known worldwide as the standard language for accurate color communication, from designer to manufacturer to retailer to customer, across a variety of industries." Its "Color Think Tank" plans and chooses color palettes for businesses. Of interest to the general public are pages on color fundamentals such as how we see color, other ways to define color, how color is reproduced, and psychology of color. Also includes links to some color trend material. http://www.pantone.com/pages/pantone/pantone.aspx?ca=29 Topics: Art Last updated Mar 24, 2009 |
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