Tag: Shades

Shades of Uniqueness: The Art of Imperfection

Any deviation from the norm is considered an imperfection, but it is these imperfections that make everything unique and beautiful. For it is in these differences that the endless mosaic of life unfolds in a variety of shapes, colors, and characters. https://foundation.app/@Anomalit/basic/8 ...

From Berlin with Love: 50 Shades of Grey

During wintertime (late autumn and early spring too, to be exact) Berlin becomes a Grey Fest. For everyone attending we have plenty of rain in the lineup, some early dawn for starters, and clouds for days. We also gonna experience some low temperatures but not low enough for snow; also not warm enou...

50 shades of Poster-making

We were assigned this project on our second day of classes. As someone with no background whatsoever in using design tools, this project introduced me to Photoshop, Illustrator and inDesign in the Adobe Creative Cloud- all at once. We were asked to create a series of 3 posters that inform people ...

The Subtle Shades of Racism

Cocoa-colored hands. Helping hands, bathing hands, cleaning and cooking hands, working hands. These are Georgia, peanut-picking hands. These are Mary’s hands. I’m two. Mary holds me on her hip while she cleans the house, while she makes everything smell lemon-scented. Mary makes the b...

420 Shades of Gray: The Legal Web Around Cannabis

Botany is weird, and I think the clearest example is to look at the common vegetable Brassica oleracea. Cultivars of this single species include broccoli, cauliflower, kale, collard greens, cabbage, Brussels sprouts, kohlrabi, broccolini, romanesco, and gai lan (Chinese broccoli). The...

My Experience Trying to Use Warm and Cool Undertones to Choose Lipstick Shades

When I was a teenager, I used to choose lipstick shades based on how much I liked the way they looked in the tube. If I was looking at a display of lipsticks at a store, my eye was always drawn to the bright, vivid pinks, so those were the shades I bought, without thinking about whether those were a...