Tag: colour

João Loureiro serves grayscale gelato at Tadao Ando’s MPavilion 10 – designboom

On-site, customers can ask Piccolina about the flavors of the grayscale gelato, which range from light grey to almost black. João Loureiro tells designboom in an email that the flavors change every time the work is shown. ‘It depends on local flavors and the ice cream production system,’ he shares with us. Users across social platforms still try to guess the flavors, including black sesame, but only when they visit the stall at MPavilion 10 can they confirm their hunches. In a way, revealing the flavors online defeats the purpose of keeping the grayscale gelato a mystery.

art, Australia, colour, food

21/01/2025
Why does Home Depot sell a white paint called Climate Change? – Curbed

Last year, Emily Mediate found herself in a Virginia Home Depot, studying an array of off-white paint chips all with names like Frost and Bakery Box, Harmonious and Vintage Linen. She was planning to paint her deck and picked up a calm, generic beige. Then she noticed its name: Climate Change. “It threw me off,” she said. Mediate is an executive at a nonprofit with an environmental push; she sees climate change as a catastrophe, not a décor project. “It’s like naming a color after a disease,” she said. “I keep wondering, Who did this, and what were they thinking?”

colour, environment, names

17/12/2024