Soccer Orange

You may have noticed that the Soccer World Cup (or Football, as it is called outside the US) is currently going on in South-Africa. One of the participating countries is Holland. The Dutch national color is orange. The Dutch Royal family is called the 'House of Orange'. It is also the color of the national soccer team. The Dutch take their adoration of the Dutch soccer team, along with their use of orange, to the extreme. Here's what a street in a small town looks like during the weeks of the world cup.

Fitzroy High School

I came across images of the new Fitzroy High School in Melbourne, Australia. It has a stunning facade of colors in a horizontal grid.The architects, McBride Charles Ryan, have been awarded the Grand Prix title at the 2010 Dulux Colour Awards for their design, with judges praising their use of colour to “enrich the learning environment”.
The project, which was the winner in the Commercial Interior category, was commended for its use of colour both as a way-finder and an aesthetic, with paint choices providing a connection between interior and exterior areas of the school.
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Favela Painting

This is way cool. Jeroen Koolhaas and Dre Urhahn are two Duch guys who wound up painting favelas in Brazil. The picture is of their latest project, Anta Marta in Rio de Janeiro.
Go, Dre and Jeroen, Go!

Colors in Cultures

Have you ever wondered what the color red means in Africa? Or what white means to people in China? You can now find out by visiting 'Information Is Beautiful', which hosts a terrific overview of all the meanings of colors across different cultures.

Pearly Colors

Close to my home, in Amsterdam, a new building has appeared recently which is covered with a new breed of pearly colored cladding. The colors change constantly, depending on the light. It may be that I'm a little over-sensitive to color, but it makes me slightly nauseated. It's a nice building, a school, but I just wish that the colors would stay put for a while.

Let's Colour

Have you seen the 'Let's Colour' project by Dulux? Check it out, it's awesome. The Dulux brand of paint has send out a team of colorists and painters to go paint places all over the world. By now they've been in the UK, France, Brazil and currently they're in India. They have hundreds of amazing pictures on Flickr. To give you an impression of the impact of the project, I've posted a small selection of pictures below.You can follow the project here.

Do you prefer to drive a Bentley or a Bentley?

Which Bentley would you prefer to drive, This one:
Or this one:The first one was colored with the configurator on the Bentley website. The other one was colored with the same color on Colorjive.