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37colors Ann Oct 03 2011

13 comments Latest by Inflation Effects

This weekend during the Ravenswood Art Walk, I visited Lorna’s Laces. They hand-dye yarns in some really beautiful color combinations. I took some photos to share, because sometimes it’s nice to look at pretty things!

Designers, how do you put colors together? Where do you find inspiration?

Bonus points: can you think of a better name for a colorway than Zombie BBQ? (That’s a trick question. There is no better name than Zombie BBQ.)

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13 comments so far

Don Schenck 03 Oct 11

My wife loves their yarns.

J. Simmons 03 Oct 11

Color inspiration for me is all about mood and story.

Mark Schall 03 Oct 11

I love finding pictures online and passing them through a color palette generator.

Michael Kelley 03 Oct 11

I’ve been struggling with this all day. I started using http://colorschemedesigner.com/, but while it helps, it’s hard to pick one that even a minority of the users like. I’d love to hear more on how you do it at 37signals.

@ggwicz 04 Oct 11

I’m partially color blind so sites like http://colourlovers.com really help me out.
But you guys can we really just have a moment of silence for whoever the hell came up with “Zombie BBQ ”? That’s some next-level naming right there.

Darrel 04 Oct 11

Go outside, take a photo with a nice range of tones. Extract the color palette.

I was about to post the photoshop route to do this, but it seems doing it online could be much easier: http://www.cssdrive.com/imagepalette/

Nature does a fantastic job of providing well-matched colours.

Adam 04 Oct 11

Check out a copy of Interaction of Colors by Josef Albers at your local library. (You’ll probably want to do this before plunking down $120 for the one with the color plates).

Saeed Neamati 04 Oct 11

Looking at the world around to get inspiration is an ideal way to get to a desired look and feel. I usually look at birds (I Google for them) and get colors from their feathers (which are indeed beautiful).

Thanks for these inspirational images. They are really lively and lovely.

Kike Gil 04 Oct 11

Love the tones and colours combined in the Zombie BBQ :)

Mike 04 Oct 11

I like Adobe Kuler. (http://kuler.adobe.com) It’s free for desktop, and they just came out with an Android app that works with your device’s camera.

Anne Hightower 04 Oct 11

thanks for sharing beauty

Ely 04 Oct 11

Zombie BBQ color combination reminds me of one I did on a student color assignment I had while in art school. My teacher complemented that not everyone can pull off a great red-green combination. I just wish I had called my piece Zombie BBQ !