I found several interesting articles today from Wired.com about color and ingredients of paint. Did you know that glossy magazines can be slightly radioactive?

Neil Harbisson was never a fan of Mark Rothko. Or any abstract artist for that matter. Harbisson’s extreme color blindness – a congenital condition called achromatopsia – dulled even great works based on shape and tone rather than pictoral image.But now his life – and his art – have been transformed by a device called the Eyeborg, which enables him to perceive color by sound, and to – quite literally – “compose” paintings (see his self-portrait, right, and others here). Read the article…

When infant eyes absorb a world of virgin visions, colors are processed purely, in a pre-linguistic parts of the brain. As adults, colors are processed in the brain’s language centers, refracted by the concepts we have for them. Read the article…

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Paleolithic cave dwellers mixed clay pigments with spit and urine to create the first paint. The basic tech hasn’t changed — we still mix pigments with a liquid binder. Of course, these days most of us slap the stuff on in a uniform coat rather than hand-draw bison on the walls of our three-bedroom colonials. Read the article…

Here’s an article I found on Logo Design Trends for this year. I thought it was pretty interesting, and after watching design for a bit over the past couple of years, I totally agree. Read the article

Take a look at the logo designs above. What’s your first reaction? They bowl you over and leave you speechless – and somewhat confused don’t they?

These logos don’t have beautiful shapes, shadows, mirrored reflections, warm colors, or icons that signify something; they look like the result of some kid playing around mindlessly. So why would anyone wish to have such a logo?

The explanation is simple: this type of logo design is very different and will definitely stand out by sheer reason of being totally different. But if we look back to the 80′s which was a period of strange geometric shapes and neon colors – these types of logos came about and earned the reputation of spearheading the invasion of “cute logos”.

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