HERE BEGINS ‘ THINK PINK’, MY BLOG ON DESIGN AND COLOR.
I HOPE TO INVESTIGATE AND DISCOVER GOOD DESIGN: ARCHITECTURE, FURNISHINGS, FABRIC, LIGHTING, SCULPTURE, OBJET D’ ART, ALL GENRES OF THE ARTS OLD AND NEW. ANYTHING I CAN FIND! FINDING WELL DESIGNED OBJECTS HAS ALWAYS CAPTURED MY IMAGINATION. FROM MIES VAN DE ROHE’S BARCELONA CHAIR TO ANDREA PALLADIO’S RENAISSANCE VILLA LA ROTUNDA.
IN THE MOVIE, FUNNY FACE, KAY THOMPSON, IS BELTING OUT THE SONG, THINK PINK AND I BELIEVE THE PERFECT PLACE TO BEGIN.
FUNNY FACE, PARAMOUNT PICTURES, 1957
SIDEBAR: The color pink was the first organic color on earth!
Bright pink pigments discovered dating back in 1.1 billion year old rocks.
Smithsonian Magazine, 2018.
The Color Pink
Continuing from my previous thoughts on design, and I am no expert and don’t pretend to be. Design should be intentional, thoughtful and creative. To experience good design is an everyday education. We are exposed everyday. The more you engage with it, the more you experience it, the more it changes you. Not only design but dance, music, fine arts, theatre. It awakens us to possibilities. So I hope to encourage you to think about the color in your life and how it mirrors your creativity and ideas and everyday life.
Go learn something. Pick a color. Seek and find.
A diversity of pink. Hard, soft, bright, muted, mixed, organic, transparent, old, new. Designed, engineered, constructed, made.