Nick Garrett

Category: design

  • Pantone Colour of Fall 2011

    Pantone Color of the Year 2011: Honeysuckle

    A Color for All Seasons
    Courageous. Confident. Vital. A brave new color, for a brave new world. Let the bold spirit of Honeysuckle infuse you, lift you and carry you through the year. It’s a color for every day – with nothing “everyday” about it.

    While the 2010 color of the year, PANTONE 15-5519 Turquoise, served as an escape for many, Honeysuckle emboldens us to face everyday troubles with verve and vigor. A dynamic reddish pink, Honeysuckle is encouraging and uplifting. It elevates our psyche beyond escape, instilling the confidence, courage and spirit to meet the exhaustive challenges that have become part of everyday life.

    “In times of stress, we need something to lift our spirits. Honeysuckle is a captivating, stimulating color that gets the adrenaline going – perfect to ward off the blues,” explains Leatrice Eiseman, executive director of the Pantone Color Institute®. “Honeysuckle derives its positive qualities from a powerful bond to its mother color red, the most physical, viscerally alive hue in the spectrum.”

    Eiseman continues, “The intensity of this festive reddish pink allures and engages. In fact, this color, not the sweet fragrance of the flower blossoms for which it was named, is what attracts hummingbirds to nectar. Honeysuckle may also bring a wave of nostalgia for its associated delicious scent reminiscent of the carefree days of spring and summer.”

     

  • ‘Invisible man’ artist hides in supermarket

    By Gaby Leslie | Yahoo! News – 4 hours ago  Edited Nick Garrett

    An artist best-known as the real-life invisible man has painted himself (or rather has had his brilliant artists paint him… errm, yep that’s right) again for a new photograph collection – this time against a supermarket shelf.Chinese-born Liu Bolin has mastered the art of camouflaging himself against a variety of backdrops and taking photos of the impressive results.
    The much acclaimed 38-year-old has travelled far and wide disguising himself across many surroundings, including a London phone box, a pile of bricks, the Beijing Olympic stadium, a Venetian canal and a graffiti-covered wall.
    Photo:PA

    A supermarket shelf may have been an odd choice of installation for the fine arts graduate, but he appears to blend naturally into the colourful stocked-up shelf of soda bottles and Pepsi cans.

    See Artist of the Month www.Artsight.wordpress.com
    The artwork entitled ‘Plasticizer’ was created to express his speechlessness at use of plasticizer in food additives.
    Photo:PA

    According to the artist, each photograph can take months of planning and the actual paint job can take up to ten hours.

    The new photographs are part of Bolin’s ‘Hiding in the City’ collection and are being exhibited at the Eli Klein Fine Art Gallery in NYC until 28 August.