The Marginalian
The Marginalian

Search results for “color”

The Dawn of the Color Photograph: Albert Kahn’s Catalog of Humanity
The Dawn of the Color Photograph: Albert Kahn’s Catalog of Humanity

How an early-twentieth-century French banker shaped your favorite Instagram filters.

read article

PANTONE: A Color History of the 20th Century
PANTONE: A Color History of the 20th Century

From Gatsby to Apple, or what the 1939 New York World’s Fair has to do with the evolution of color theory.

read article

Ethnic Diversity in Russia 100 Year Ago, Restored in Color
Ethnic Diversity in Russia 100 Year Ago, Restored in Color

From peasants to emirs, or nomads have to do with the political cornerstones of world history.

read article

E. chromi: Designer Bacteria for Color-Coded Disease Detection
E. chromi: Designer Bacteria for Color-Coded Disease Detection

What the future of personalized medicine has to do with the cross-pollination of design and engineering.

read article

5 Quirky Coloring Books for The Eternal Kid
5 Quirky Coloring Books for The Eternal Kid

What gangsta rap has to do with children’s healthcare and mid-century illustration.

read article

Three Primary Colors: OK Go and Sesame Street Explain Basic Color Theory in Stop-Motion
Three Primary Colors: OK Go and Sesame Street Explain Basic Color Theory in Stop-Motion

read article

Do You See What I See? BBC on the Subjectivity of Color Perception
Do You See What I See? BBC on the Subjectivity of Color Perception

Why you should wear red on your next date, or what an African tribe can teach us about the color of water.

read article

American Look: A Technicolor Homage to Mid-Century Design
American Look: A Technicolor Homage to Mid-Century Design

Can you identify these 49 classic pieces of mid-century design?

read article

A Rare Look at Japan: Hand-Colored Images from the 1920s
A Rare Look at Japan: Hand-Colored Images from the 1920s

What Geisha parlors have to do with arranged marriages, Buddhist priests and earthquake recovery.

read article

PICKED: Color Story Parallels, Past vs. Present
PICKED: Color Story Parallels, Past vs. Present

read article

View Full Site

The Marginalian participates in the Bookshop.org and Amazon.com affiliate programs, designed to provide a means for sites to earn commissions by linking to books. In more human terms, this means that whenever you buy a book from a link here, I receive a small percentage of its price, which goes straight back into my own colossal biblioexpenses. Privacy policy. (TLDR: You're safe — there are no nefarious "third parties" lurking on my watch or shedding crumbs of the "cookies" the rest of the internet uses.)