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Creating Colorful Gardens

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Inspiring images, books and people to help you create a colorful garden.

Color Inspiration

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8 February, 2010
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Eclectic Color Roundup

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Green

Thank You Bag by Ina Weise

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When it comes to plastic bags things are pretty black and white.

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"I’m not crazy about telling everyone not to use plastic bags. I know they can be very useful. But since I’ve been living in the US it is very hard to ignore the mass amounts of plastic bags everywhere. Everyone keeps them stuffed into one that hangs from the pantry door. They line trash bins. They carry food even if it is just a single pack of gum. They flutter from trees. They float in the breeze. They clog roadside drains. There are so many everywhere that no one really treats them as if they’re worth anything."

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Sarah Gee

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Nancy Herman

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Kathryn M  Ireland

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7 February, 2010
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Colors From Africa By Viviane Sassen

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Africa Series by Amsterdam born and based photographer Viviane Sassen.

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5 February, 2010
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Colorful Cocktails

By evad in Food, Home, News
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A colorful menu of cocktails from the "Adventures in Amateur Mixology" blog, Sloshed, and flickr.

Bada Bing

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2 basil leaves, chiffonaded
3 pitted Bing cherries
1 oz Plymouth gin
½ oz simple syrup
½ oz maraschino liqueur
½ lime juice
3-4 oz champagne

See Instructions

Sleeping Giant

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1½ oz fresh orange juice
1½ oz unsweetened pineapple juice
1½ oz light rum
½ oz sweet & sour
¼ oz orgeat

See Instructions

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4 February, 2010
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Ways To Design Your Own Colorful Fabrics, Cases,...Stuff

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If  you're not satisfied with current product offerings and you've been dreaming of your own designs these companies offer another outlet for all of you.

If you know of any other companies like these share them in the comments.

3d Products

Ponoko

"This is a place where everyone can make requests to get (almost) anything made."

Shop: Choose and buy a product. The designer will order the parts from us and send it to you direct.

Buy or find free Plans: Choose a design and download the files to your PC for free. You can then customize it if the Creative Commons copyright license allows. When you're ready to make it, upload the files to your My Ponoko account, select the materials, and get an instant price for us to make it and deliver it to your door.

Get Inspired: Get inspired by what others are designing and making with Ponoko.

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3 February, 2010
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A Visual History Of Crayola Crayon Colors

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Crayola is synonymous with crayons. Because of them crayons are one of the top 20 most recognizable scents for adults in America, and their brand is known to 99% of households.

Inspired by every color, from the original 8 color box to the 120 color trunk?, and the crayon connection shared by generations of people, Stephen Von Worley of Weather Sealed and his friend created the Crayola Color Chart, 1903-2010, A visual history of Crayola's color expansion from 1903 to 2010.

Crayola Color Chart, 1903-2010


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Making of the Chart


To create the chart, Velo gently scraped Wikipedia’s list of Crayola colors, corrected a few hues, and added the standard 16-count School Crayon box available in 1935.

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1 February, 2010
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The True Colors Of Dinosaurs

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"Scientists have found evidence of some of the original coloration of a dinosaur that lived about 125 million years ago, showing that it had rings of orange-brown bristly feathers around its tail."

Color has long been something that scientist thought would never be known about the dinosaurs. Since only hard tissues tend to be preserved in fossil records there was little hope in the scientific community that any of the colorful softer tissues would ever be studied. And without those how could we ever know what color palette any of these incredible creatures displayed. The answer came in a feather.

Recently discovered feathered dinosaurs held the key to our first look at color. Feathers, unlike soft tissue, are made of tough proteins and hold up much better. Unfortunately these fossilized feathers don't preserve the color they once had but rather look much like any other fossil.

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Sinosauropteryx From wiki. See other artist renditions based on these findings here.


"When you look at the feathers, you don't know what the colors were. The feathers are a mixture of brownish colors," says Benton (paleontologist Mike Benton at the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom). "They're just preserved either as sort of dirty, whitish, beige kind of color and a kind of darker, equally dirty kind of brownish color. "

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1 February, 2010
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Interior Design Trends: Kelly Green And Navy

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Navy and kelly green is a timeless combo. I personally associate it with preppies, whom I happen to love. Though it seems timeless, I found while browsing objects that there really weren't that many to view consisting of these two colors. Do you own anything that is kelly green and navy?

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30 January, 2010
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Sculptural Color Palettes By Michael Johansson

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Swedish artist Michael Johansson packs his color into neat sculptural objects. Sculptural Color Palettes Of Michael Johansson

Taking everyday objects and pulling them from their familiar meaning & use, Johansson repackages them with impressive Tetris-like skills into 3d sculptures that highlight the unrelating objects' coincidental meanings of shape and color.

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Artist Statement


I am fascinated walking around flea markets finding doubles of seemingly unique, though often useless objects I have already purchased at another flea market. Despite the fact that I did not have any use for them even the first time, the desire to own two of these objects becomes too strong to resist. The unique and unknown origin of the object increases my desire to want the double – the unlikelihood of this sensation repeating itself produces an attraction that is too strong to resist.

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29 January, 2010
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Warning Colors

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Warning colors are found throughout nature: the bumblebee, the skunk, the cuddle fish, the coral snake,... These animal's bright colors stand out against their environment demanding attention and declaring to predators that they're poisonous and they better think twice about eating them. So, its no wonder that when we want to get people's attention and warn them about certain perils we use the same high contrast, highly visibile, conspicuous color palettes that are often found in nature.

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Hes_A_Flea Warning

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28 January, 2010
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