News in a Poster format

While browsing antique poster shops for a color scheme, I came across this wondeful poster by Otto Baumberger. It's from 1928, yet it looks totally contemporary! Poster information: Neue Zurcher Zeitung, 1928,35.5" x 50.25", Lithograph

Seguy Palette #1

Using a floral print by Seguy as a starting point, I created a hexadecimal palette by using Photoshop's eyedropper tool to sample the colors. I then created a new color palette image in Photoshop with hexadecimal colors.
Pochoir or silkscreen prints are a little easier than photographs to use in a color analysis. There is no tonal gradation, just large flat color fields.

1930s Color Palette

I adore the print work of French artist, Eugene Seguy. Most of his pieces were done as book illustrations. In looking at his work, I was inspired to do a color check using I Like Your Colors, on a gallery that sells his work, Leonard Fox Rare Books. Below is the returned color palette. This is good, but it is missing the neutralizing tan on the front page, which is actually a photo. In using Dreamweaver to do a color analysis, it turns out that the hexadecimal color is #A59267

I could do this analysis in Fireworks, Photoshop or any other photo manipulation program. I just happened to have Dreamweaver open. The image below was created as a table in Dreamweaver, then I took a screenshot of it and saved that as a jpg. I did try to import the table into Blogger, but Blogger rewrote the table code in bizarre css that wouldn't render background colors.To the right, is the colors palette generated by Like-Your-Colors. I find that the white : color ration has too much white to make an effective color decision in this dark, rich toned scheme.

Color Inspiration

In design, it is a good idea to keep a sketchbook of what is inspiring you at the moment. Sketchbooks are sloppy. They are works-in-progress. I want to start keeping a design sketchbook of colors that inspire me, in preparation for (potentially) reworking my blog color scheme.

First clipping from: Marcy Tilton's website
Sensational Color has an article declaring that red and green are the colors of vibrancy and freshness in India's markets.