Podcast
99% Invisible
It was discussed and described as a beautiful book detailing the history of color and pigments, including the lengths people went to obtain the brightest shades, like the use of insects and shellfish.
She wrote a beautiful book called The Secret Lives of Color that I love so much that I invited her in to talk with me, and she's riveting.
— Episode: The Secret Lives of Color
Episode: The Secret Lives of Color
It was discussed and described as a beautiful book detailing the history of color and pigments, including the lengths people went to obtain the brightest shades, like the use of insects and shellfish.
She wrote a beautiful book called The Secret Lives of Color that I love so much that I invited her in to talk with me, and she's riveting.
One of the reasons why I love color as a subject, you know, I'm just so fascinated by it is because humans have always gone to the most extreme and extraordinary lengths to get their hands on brighter and more interesting shades.
In fact, black has as many different subtleties of tone that, you know, as white does. And yet we just don't, you know, our vocabulary for black is really poor.
Colors are cultural creations and they're kind of shifting all the time, sort of like tectonic plates. Color is not a precise thing.
It's changing, it's living, it's constantly being redefined and argued over. And that's part of the magic of it.