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Colour & Materials

Exploding Colour

Technicolour explosions are becoming a favoured design feature in today’s media, appearing in formats ranging from music videos to experimental photography. Stylus looks to some of the visual theme's leading lights for colour and texture inspiration.

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10 Aug 2011
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