Judith van Vliet: Hey, everyone. Welcome to this special edition on the Color Authority podcast. And this is Judith. I just got back from my holidays. I know most of you are still somewhere enjoying your son, your relaxation, your friends and family, but I just wanted to share with you a summarised episode on what most of my guests thought color was over these past three seasons. The idea actually was born from an email that I was sent by a very dear friend out of United States, Texas, who just keeps on listening as well to the podcast. And she says that question that you ask to all of your guests, what is color? Is so fascinating, and it really captures how complex color is. And maybe you can do a mood board on that, or maybe you can do something with that. And it took me a while to just on holiday. I was probably sipping a cool glass of wine, and just this morning, it just hit me, and I just said, I'm sure you guys sometimes have that as well. I was like, no, I need to do something special with this. So what you're going to be listening to in just a few seconds is, let's say, summarized episode, indeed, of most of my guests and what they think color is. It shows how intriguing the topic is, and it shows how this podcast will never really have an end because there's so many people I still want to interview. There's so many things that we still want and need to discover about color. So this is what I wanted to share with all of you on the topic of color on this special day here in August. I hope you will enjoy!
Leatrice Eisman: what is color to me? I can't imagine my life without being as involved with color as I've been. But your first answer, your kneejerk reaction, is, it's everything. But of course, it can't be everything in your life, but it certainly has been an enhancement that started very early in my life, in my childhood. And I cannot imagine my life without being involved in some way with working with color, enjoying color, using color, being absorbed with color. It's that important to me.
Stefan Ytterborn: well, it was kind of interesting as we got to meet for the first time because you were referring to the cake collar, which is still very grayish. Anyhow, I need to enhance the fact that I love colors. So the more colors, at times, it's a matter of feelings and not at least the opportunity to surprise and to bring some joy. On the other hand, I kind of like the monochromic darkish kind of pragmatic and say, gold colors or hazy colors and so forth. But again, the color is very important to me.
Julia Hamilton: color is like a constant companion for me because I have a form of synesthesia called breathing synesthesia, which it's numbers and letters having color. So it's hard to imagine not having numbers or letters in your head. It's like right now I'm talking. So I have no letters, words between language and numbers. I'm always having flashes of color in my head.
Karl Johann Bertilsson: Yeah, I saw the question and I haven't really found a good answer to that. But to be honest, color to me is one of the most important things that exist. I think the more I work with color, the more I understand and realize that the connection to color from the moment we were born, the connection to color has been fundamental in the creation of who we are and the way we interact with each other and everything. I usually say when I give speeches and everything, the color is one of the most important things that exist in our surroundings or in our lives, because it means so much.
Patricia Fecci_ color for me is life and I believe everything that is related to life, the joy of life, the joy of living, the whole passion, the love, I believe is a mix of emotions in a positive way. And I really cannot imagine my life without color.
Carmel Levitan: that's a really hard question. I'm going to pretend this is my class for a minute because I teach college students and I'd say it's a lot of different things. So there's the physical aspect of color. So it's light, it has certain wavelengths in it, and the different mixture of wavelengths is what we perceive as color. But that's kind of the boring part. What's interesting to me is the perceptual properties. So what your eye and your brain do with color. And those are connected to the physical properties, but they're not exactly the same. It's kind of what we make, the interpretation of both the physical input that comes into your eye, but also your expectations can change what something looks like, your assumptions about the lighting or the situation. So I think to like that famous optical illusion from a few years ago of the dress where people could look at the same image and disagree over what color the dress was. To me, that's the fascinating part, because it tells me that color isn't really just what's physically in the image. We all have equivalent images. I could show that image in class and we could literally be looking at the exact same image, but instead it's about the story that our brains tell ourselves about what we think the color means.
Mark Woodman: it seems gosh, I just think color is life. At least it is for me. I couldn't imagine a moment without it, without looking out the window and seeing what color the flowers are going to be at a particular time in the garden, or opening up the closet and thinking like, oh, I think I put that shirt on today, or heaven forbid, choose a color of sock with the shirt. But I just find that it's so all encompassing, all day long and resides in language. I use it to describe moods and foods and all kinds of things. Yeah, it's just without even realizing, I think it's just life. The first thing that comes to mind to me is mystery. This is the very first thing. It's mystery. It's mystery because I don't know what the world looks like if it's only black and white. So what's the added dimension now that color brings?
Dominik Eisend: color is everything, right? I mean, color really makes our daily experience that we're seeing, that we're interacting and that we experience architecture with. Color really makes it happen, right? And it's not only color, it's the texture. It's the flop of it already diving into this topic and how it all looks out together. So I look at color not only as color as a separate part. I always look at it as a product, kind of like.
Gustavo Castillo: I think color is a way to change things completely. Absolutely. Make it radical, make it simple sometimes. But it's an opportunity to change things. Absolutely.
Patti Carpenter: well, I loved when you sent some of the questions over and I just read that I thought, my gosh, that's such a basic and beautiful question. And as I started sort of talking to myself about what is that? For me, it's a language through which I feel like I have a dialogue with the world. I think in color, I dream in color. Color makes me salivate. So I know that it's a very intrinsic thing to me. And what I kind of landed on is at the end of the day, color is life.
Olga Hanono: Color to me is energy. It represents everything to me, that thing that connects me to a thing, an object, an art piece, a person, a place. It's also a memory.
Montaha Hidefi:I think the correct question to ask would be something like what or who is Montaha without color in the universe? To me, color is everything in my life. Without color, I think in general, life would be so dull and so boring. Color lifts me usually from the ground up. Every morning when I open my eyes, the first thing I see is color. And you know, Judith, that I speak many languages, but the language of color is totally different. And I find that it's more a universal language that everybody can understand, but yet it's so challenging to learn and to master because not everybody is in tune to color.
Sara Forsmark: color is everything. I mean, color is so big. It's so many different ways we can use color, right? And this was a very complex and I think for me, it's the beauty. From a professional point of view. It's kind of a currency. I like to call it a currency. I think it's like color can make you happy, it can make you sad. And of course, it can have such a different influence depending on how you use color. And I think that's the beautiful thing with color. It's kind of mysterious in one sense, because in one sense, we think we understand it. In one sense, we don't.
Ramon Morato: I think color is a form of communication. The same thing happens with my work. Through our creations, we are communicating something to our clients. And the truth is that I am not very aware of. But a while ago in Milan, he opened my eyes to discover that there's a world war behind color, a war from which chefs should really learn more fantasma wow.
Formafantasma: That's already a difficult question anyway. But I think for us, color is a very important element of design, and there has been a very long time disregarded as something superficial, and we absolutely do not believe in that. So it's difficult to give a unified response to this because color can be very different things. You can use color as a way of signaling something. You can use it as a coding. You can use it as to evoke an emotion, as a way of defining a form. So there are very different ways of defining color. I think for us, what is interesting about color is that it is the intuitive side of design.
Marianne Schillingford :I'm sure everybody says color is everything, but I realized how important color was when I was very young. My dad, we grew up on a rose nursery. My dad bred roses for their color and their perfume, and he used to create a color catalog of all of his roses. And at the time, every year, which he used to do this, he used to be completely absorbed by matching color to petals and making sure that it looked right in print. So that's sort of the importance of getting an experience of color, of communicating color to customers and helping them unlock the potential of that in their gardens and on their walls. I got that from a very early age when I see a color because of my dad, I smell it. My mum made wine. She made wine out of rose petals. And it was all about the color of the rose, and I can taste it. And so when people when we're naming colors or we're describing colors, it's about the way the color makes you feel and not just how it makes how it looks. It's beautiful, but it's how it makes you feel. And there's a whole sensory thing. Tell Math on the VA color, to.
Thelma van der Werff: color is a language. It's a hidden language or a secret language. And as soon as you understand and speak that language, you can get a lot of insight, not only yourself, but also in other people. So, yes, I really see color as a language.
Pavo Wong: For me, color is life as it is. I think color brings accents and all the sense to this life without color. I think I will be depressed. I don't know why. I don't know if it's because I'm Mexican. I don't know if it's because of my culture. I don't know. But I just need color in my life. So if I don't see color around, it's like depressing. So for me, color is life. And also, as you know, color is also a game of contrast. So such is life. Life is a game of contrast all the time, and I think also is poetry, because you can express, you can store it. I mean, you can communicate so many stuff through colors. That, for me, is everything.
Bruno Pitzalis: Regarding the free party, I could refer to color as a soundtrack of this new hard movement, normally a movement that is decentralized, and therefore it doesn't have, let's say, that, many typical shared cultural assets. But the color palettes, at least for the artists from the first wave, has been a significant share aspect.
Piet Hein Eek: That's funny. For me, it's a tool because it's one of the most important ingredients of my profession. And then specifically when it's about interior design, when I design products, it's mostly that I try to choose materials and textures and colors as close to design as possible so that it feels very natural. And with the interiors, I try really it's more like conceptual and more a way to even change the whole feeling of space. I looked at that question, and as I reflected it, I thought the only answer I could give is colors. Everything colors, light. Color is what excites me. Color is what draws me to an image. Color is how I communicate feeling in my images. Color is a mood. Color is everything.
David Shah: actually, I came to color quite late in my career. I never intended to get into color or fashion at all, and suddenly I discovered something I knew nothing about at all. Really came from it, from nowhere. But I found it absolutely fascinating because it really appealed to me, and I'm very much in. I like business a lot. I love reading The Economist, and I think business is really important to understanding what's happening in trends, and I love creativity. I always wanted to be a painter, and I realized I'd be better buying paintings and making paintings. But it appeals to me. Textiles appeals to me also. The people who work in textiles and color are highly creative people. Unlike fashion, they are truly believing in what they're doing and really investing their time and belief in it. I fell in love with the whole subject.
And finally, Leslie Harrington: For me, actually, I think it's become a way of life. And so I guess for me, it's just part of life.
Judith van Vliet: I hope you enjoyed this very short episode on what is Color, and I think one of the main takeaways is that, yes, color is life. It certainly is my life, as you can hear from the podcast and how much I have been enjoying doing this, interviewing these wonderful people. This was just a short summer edition. We will be back on September 6 with the next episode with Shashi Caan. So I wish you a wonderful rest of your holidays and see you back in September.