The biggest advantage of being a graphic designer is that you meet so many kinds of people and work for so many different types of companies.
Some clients wanted to talk as briefly as possible, while others shared more about their interests and their lives.
That’s how I found out that my printer was red-green colourblind and one of my clients was red-colourblind. How does a colourblind person see, became an interesting topic this way.
Botanical colouring, natural colouring, or plant colouring are different names for dyeing with plants. All with the objective of having a toxic-free or almost toxic-free dyeing process.
When I was a ceramicist, I was very interested in the way colours are produced.
I made my own coloured slips for years and when I wrote my article about the different colours of clay my interest in natural colouring, in general, was aroused once again.
A lot of countries have flags in the colours red, white and blue. The USA, the Netherlands, France, the UK – to name a few.
I looked for inspiration by sorting several of my photographs in specific colours. As a result, I made this article about red, white, and blue in pictures.
Thematic photography is an unending source of inspiration in my view. Try it yourself, if you want. Maybe the theme-spark will catch you as well. 🙂
We went to a nature park today with mainly reed and dried grass. What struck my eyes were the nuances in gray. Making me wonder how much color I can add to gray while still being able to call it gray. It turns out I just need a tiny bit of a color to change … Read more