Artifact: Pittsburgh Paints’ 2027 Color of the Year Is a Rare Reset

Builder Magazine: Pittsburgh Paints Co. has named Artifact its 2027 Color of the Year for both its Pittsburgh Paints and Glidden brands. Artifact, a smoky, atmospheric blue, leverages the emotional potential of color.

Get the hex code of any color on your Mac screen with Digital Color Meter

boingboing.net: I recently learned that Macs have a neat little utility to get the color number of any color on the display. It's called Digital Color Meter. When you open it, a window pops up showing the color value at your cursor's location.

Shining a light on the Overlook Hotel's Room 237 carpet

Film and Furniture: Considerable attention has been bestowed upon the iconic hexagonal carpet that lines the corridors of The Shining‘s Overlook Hotel, but what of the infamous Room 237 carpet? Join us as we investigate the captivating carpet and design details of Room 237 and ask renowned film set decorators and interior designers to share their thoughts on this most foreboding of hotel rooms. We also show you where you can buy luxury versions of the Room 237 carpet, rugs and runners for your own home.

Designing Eye-popping Costumes for the Black & White 'Mank'

Awardsdaily - The Oscars, the Films and everything in between.: Imagine working with David Fincher on a film about 1930s Hollywood featuring star Marion Davies, billionaire William Randolph Hearst, and screenwriter Herman Mankiewicz. Imagine having the opportunity to recreate the looks for Hearst and Davies’ famed parties featuring some of Hollywood’s biggest names and most exotic apparel.

Starving Artists and Design Students Can Afford This Cheap but Accurate Real-Life Color Picker

gizmodo.com: Check the camera roll on any designer’s smartphone and you’ll find hundreds of random images they snapped for inspiration or because they simply liked a color. But it’s not the best tool for the job. A dedicated color detector is far more accurate, and with Datacolor’s new ColorReader EZ, it’s no longer an obscenely expensive tool accessible to only professional designers.

Design Inspiration: Building with Light and Color

ExhibiTricks: The Museum Exhibit Design Blog: Throughout time, artists, architects, and even exhibit designers have created opportunities for people to play with light and color.

A beautiful example of this is Sainte-Chapelle, the royal chapel completed in the year 1248 in Paris.

It is amazing to step inside the chapel surrounded by multi-story stained-glass windows.

Examining Rosco's Protective Filters – How They Work & How To Use Them

www.rosco.com: We figured that if this designer, who shall remain nameless, didn’t know which filter to use, many others wouldn’t either. Below, we clarify the difference between the Rosco Protective Filters and describe the best way to put them to work.

Relevé Spot - the world of additive color mixing

blog.etcconnect.com: We’ve mentioned additive color mixing time and time again, but what do we really mean and how is it different than subtractive mixing? To help demonstrate what happens with additive and subtractive mixing systems, we asked our advanced research group and our industrial design team here at ETC to help us out.

Art, science and the paradoxes of perception

theconversation.com: Perception is utterly baffling. We can precisely describe the biological structure of eyes and brains. We can measure the electrochemical impulses and electrical fields generated by neurons. But reason fails us when we attempt to explain how these physical processes cause all the vivid colours, textures and objects that appear in visual perception. In fact, perception is so perplexing that we can find ourselves pushed to the edge of rational thought – and beyond – when we try to understand it.

The History of the Color Blue: From Ancient Egypt to New Discoveries

mymodernmet.com: The color blue is associated with two of Earth’s greatest natural features: the sky and the ocean. But that wasn’t always the case. Some scientists believe that the earliest humans were actually colorblind and could only recognize black, white, red, and only later yellow and green. As a result, early humans with no concept of the color blue simply had no words to describe it. This is even reflected in ancient literature, such as Homer’s Odyssey, that describes the ocean as a “wine-red sea.”