Raffle: Support a Color Box: $10
Posted by gabemott in thank you on 10. Feb, 2009 | 1 Comment
I need your help to make this happen. A Color Box is important to me because it represents a new way for people to experience beauty in the simplicity of color. This endeavor will train people’s eyes to see deeper into the relationships of colors, it will inspire people to see beyond what they are [...]
Doing it for the kids
Posted by gabemott in content, education, thank you on 03. Feb, 2009 | 0 Comments
If I can share one iota of the excitement that I have for color, kids of all ages will be inspired to learn the grammar of color. Just as in music, there are scales and harmonies that are absolute. Prior to classes with Dick Nelson, I would intuit a color grabbing the next can of [...]
Dick Nelson and his epiphany: The Color Matrix
Posted by gabemott in content, education on 02. Feb, 2009 | 2 Comments
Dick Nelson was studying at Yale with Joseph Albers when he had his epiphany with color. Albers had shown that in an array of swatches, where each end was a parent, and all the children were ordered properly, something exciting happened (halation). It took endless hours to mix the paints to create perfect children. However, [...]
