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Since its creation, the Pantone color chart has been the official dictionary of color. Artists, designers, painters and decorators have used Pantone to precisely pair colors to create a desired visual aesthetic. Artist Pierre David has redesigned the Pantone with a different shade of coloring; the varied beauty of Human skin tones. David´s work was shown in Brazil, showcasing the range of beautiful colors of the people of the proud South American nation.
Superhero Light Boxes by The Rekindled Page
It’s lighting meets learning meets spandex… a threesome to be reckoned with! These vintage lamps are made from standard industrial electrical boxes with a classic comic book superhero printed on a dictionary page mounted on the front for dramatic effect. It’s no Bat-Signal, but these stylish comic lamps will surely keep the supervillains away at night. Available at etsy.
Artist: Facebook
Dear Sir:
I like words. I like fat buttery words, such as ooze, turpitude, glutinous, toady. I like solemn, angular, creaky words, such as straitlaced, cantankerous, pecunious, valedictory. I like spurious, black-is-white words, such as mortician, liquidate, tonsorial, demi-monde. I like suave “V” words, such as Svengali, svelte, bravura, verve. I like crunchy, brittle, crackly words, such as splinter, grapple, jostle, crusty. I like sullen, crabbed, scowling words, such as skulk, glower, scabby, churl. I like Oh-Heavens, my-gracious, land’s-sake words, such as tricksy, tucker, genteel, horrid. I like elegant, flowery words, such as estivate, peregrinate, elysium, halcyon. I like wormy, squirmy, mealy words, such as crawl, blubber, squeal, drip. I like sniggly, chuckling words, such as cowlick, gurgle, bubble and burp.
I like the word screenwriter better than copywriter, so I decided to quit my job in a New York advertising agency and try my luck in Hollywood, but before taking the plunge I went to Europe for a year of study, contemplation and horsing around.
I have just returned and I still like words.
May I have a few with you?
Robert Pirosh
385 Madison Avenue
Room 610
New York
Eldorado 5-6024
My new favorite job application letter, from 1934. He ended up winning an Oscar for screenwriting!
(via Letters of Note)
(Source: megangreenwell)
A book of strange words we don’t use normally
Transfer, pen, acrylic, and shoelaces.
(Source: abbeyfrenchu)
Un libro olvidado cobra relevancia por la transgresión sufrida en forma de una provocativa intervención artística que respeta la esencia del mismo clasificando texturas, rasgados, mujeres y letras dentro del mismo diccionario en un afán humano de supervivencia y expresión que pretende gritar “ESTOY AQUI”“Diccionario Gráfico de la Fama Anónima” pretende mostrar al arte como resultado del tiempo en un espacio de cultura transgredida y fama anónima donde la casualidad de la tendencia al caos y el ser de lo que no debiera ser, se funden en un pequeño torbellino de sorpresa, violación, expresión y olvido dando escaparate a paredes agrietadas, postes perforados, pinturas descarapeladas, carteles rasgados, graffitis anónimos y calcomanías de culto, que bajo una intervención y expresión fotográfica libre pretende testimoniar la creación del tiempo, la lluvia, el polvo, el dolor, el coraje y la existencia sin intención ni juicio, tomando al hombre y su necesidad de expresión y vida como un mero vehículo para la definición indefinida.
Dictionary Book Ring
My friend showed me this website and this is the gist of it:
You’re given a word and multiple choice meanings for it, and for every word’s meaning you get correct, ten grains of rice are donated to the fight against world hunger. So while building your vocabulary, you are also helping combat world hunger.
(via wordsinthesky)