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Color Inspiration

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Martin_Heigan

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Thank You Bag by Ina Weise

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

"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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It's been a while since the link in our store for t-shirts died... and after trying a out several different on-demand printers we finally decided that to get the best quality prints we were going to have to make the shirts ourselves. So now you can rep the color love offline too.

Sponsored Members: Check your love notes for a special thank you 20% off coupon.

Holding t-shirt inventory isn't cheap so for now we're only stocking the black shirts. If in the future there is enough demand for white shirts we'll order some of those too...

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If you honor us by buying one of our shirts, send us a photo of you wearing it and we'll add it to our online gallery... We may even offer some prizes to the most colorful and creative submissions.

Thank you all for continuing to support our efforts to grow the most supportive and creative community.
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Africa Series by Amsterdam born and based photographer Viviane Sassen.

A colorful menu of cocktails from the "Adventures in Amateur Mixology" blog, Sloshed, and flickr.

Bada Bing
		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
		1½ oz fresh orange juice 1½ oz unsweetened pineapple juice 1½ oz light rum ½ oz sweet & sour ¼ oz orgeat See Instructions

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.

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

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.

"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.

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. "

Products

Picture Frames by John Murphey

John Murphey

"Reproductions of my hand-finished frames now available exclusively through the website. Made of cast resin and currently available in 10 rock em' sock em' colors. Ready to hang horizontally or vertically. Holds a 5x7 print.  Overall dimensions 10 x 12 inches."

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Rich Color Crayons

AssistOn

"Rich deep colors aren’t achieved by applying solid color, but by blending a range of colors in your shadows and highlights. Add a bit of purple to your blues or yellow and orange to your browns to achieve richer, deeper pallets of color in your work." - Design Fetish

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24 Hours in Madrid by Fernanso Volken Togni

Fernanso Volken Togni

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Bill Turner

Portfolio: Bill Turner

"...painted with a narrow, carefully controlled palette. His compositions, however, are bold in terms of value and shapes, with large dark masses set against bright areas of hazy skies (a hazy sky is actually lighter in value than a sunny blue one)." - lines and colors

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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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