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Colour & Materials

Layered Colour

A fascination with overlaying colour and image is beginning to emerge. The layering of colour to create intriguing optical and colour effects is being seen in art, design, fashion and architecture. Stylus reports on this growing aesthetic.

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23 Aug 2012
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Billboard Cut-Outs Borrow Colour from Old Ads Billboard Cut-Outs French guerrilla artist Thomas Louis Jacques Schmitt’s latest installations adapt existing billboard advertisements by cutting through them to reveal the colours of previous adverts.
Colour & Materials
Arts & Pop Culture
07 Jul 2011
Carnovsky Showcases Colour Works in La Selva
Carnovsky Showcases Colour Works in La Selva Carnovsky: La Selva Carnovsky is showcasing layered compositions that reveal their individual subjects when viewed through coloured lenses in an exhibition titled La Selva, taking place at east London’s Jaguar Shoes gallery.
Colour & Materials
Arts & Pop Culture
05 Jul 2011
Bridget Riley
Bridget Riley Bridget Riley Distinguished British painter and pioneer of the Op Art movement, Bridget Riley (b 1931) produces enthralling compositions that are exhibited around the world. Her recent exhibition at the National Gallery, London (November 24, 2010 to May 22, 2011) inspired Stylus to revisit the artist’s rich contribution to the visual landscape over the past six decades.
Colour & Materials
Arts & Pop Culture
04 Jul 2011
Susan Hiller
Susan Hiller Susan Hiller Cited as one of the most influential female artists of the past century, American Susan Hiller (b. 1940) was the subject of a recent retrospective at Tate Britain (February 1–May 15), highlighting her selective and powerful use of colour during her career to date. Choosing to work with a limited palette and often re-colouring photography and film, Hiller uses hue to alter perception and heighten the impact of her work. Stylus explores the London-based fine artist’s evolving relationship with colour.
Colour & Materials
Arts & Pop Culture
01 Jul 2011
Bryan Graf’s Composite Photography
Bryan Graf’s Composite Photography Bryan Graf’s Photography Portuguese architect and interior designer Pedro Gadanho has completed his latest project – a brightly coloured residential property in Torres Vedras, Portugal.
Colour & Materials
Arts & Pop Culture
24 Jun 2011
Josef Albers
Josef Albers Josef Albers An integral faculty member of the Bauhaus design school, designer, artist and colour theorist Josef Albers’ legacy continues to inform the way creatives think about colour today. Stylus revisits the German scholar’s theoretical masterpiece, Interaction of Color, first published in 1963, exploring his observations on how we perceive colour through his series of texts and colour studies.
Colour & Materials
Applications
22 Jun 2011
Olafur Eliasson Completes Rainbow Masterpiece
Olafur Eliasson Completes Rainbow Masterpiece Your Rainbow Panaroma Berlin-based creative practice Studio Olafur Eliasson has completed Your Rainbow Panorama – a rooftop installation built on top of the ARoS Museum of Art in Aarhus, Denmark.
Colour & Materials
Arts & Pop Culture
02 Jun 2011
Hella Jongerius: Daylight
Hella Jongerius: Daylight Hella Jongerius: Daylight Dutch designer Hella Jongerius has designed DAYLIGHT – a table that uses resin blocks to disperse colour across its surface – for the HSBC Connection Collection IV, to be launched at the Design Miami Basel design expo this June.
Product Design
Colour & Materials
31 May 2011
Joy Division/New Order: Total
Joy Division/New Order: Total Joy Division/New Order British graphic designers Peter Saville and Howard Wakefield have collaborated to design the artwork for Total – a compilation of music by Joy Division and New Order.
Colour & Materials
Packaging & Graphics
27 May 2011
Houston Museum New Colour-Led Identity
Houston Museum New Colour-Led Identity Houston Museum Identity New York-based graphic design studio AHL&CO has worked with the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston to create a new identity for the gallery that incorporates overprinting with graphic forms derived from the building’s structure.
Colour & Materials
Packaging & Graphics
12 May 2011
Ethereal Colourscapes
Ethereal Colourscapes Ethereal Colourscapes The sensorial overload of primary colour blocking and digital media continue to capture our attention in almost every facet of modern life. Meanwhile, a quiet movement has emerged, engaging the observer with an altogether more ethereal approach to colour. Stylus investigates the artists and designers working to produce mood-changing experiences through spectacular ambient lighting effects and a palette of shimmering pastel tones.
Colour & Materials
Architecture & Spaces
11 May 2011
Festival: Holi, 2011
Festival: Holi, 2011 Festival: Holi, 2011 One of the most colourful religious festivals is that of Holi, which saw Hindus across the globe celebrating the god Vishnu in March. Welcoming spring with a playful showering of colourful tikka dust, revellers were awash with a rainbow of saturated shades. Stylus captures this festival of colour.
Media & Marketing
Arts & Pop Culture
12 Apr 2011
Anaglyphs: Colour in 3D
Anaglyphs: Colour in 3D Anaglyphs: Colour in 3D From the catwalk to the crayon box, the lure of the 3D image has captured designers’ imaginations. But rather than an influx of expensive production techniques and hi-tech, time-consuming processes, the creative world has returned to the art of the red-green 3D image. Stylus investigates.
Colour & Materials
Arts & Pop Culture
11 Apr 2011
Demonstrates Subtractive Colour Theory
Demonstrates Subtractive Colour Theory About-Time Clock Rhode Island School of Design graduate Louie Rigano’s About-Time clock uses transparent coloured discs instead of hands to represent time.
Colour & Materials
Interiors
21 Mar 2011
Cosmic Multicolour
Cosmic Multicolour Cosmic Multicolour Miami-based artist Jen Stark is presenting new works in a group show at Fullerton College in Orange County, California.
Media & Marketing
Arts & Pop Culture
28 Jan 2011
Weavesilk
Weavesilk Weavesilk Student Yuri Vishnevsky has designed a web-based application called Weavesilk that allows the user to create complex landscapes of colour and line with their fingertips
Media & Marketing
Digital Culture
15 Jan 2011
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