“In a way, the blank canvas... represents the infinity of trying to use color to express emotions - to assign a linguistic function to color.” WayTryingUseEmotionColorExpressionFunctionInfinityBlankCanvasBlank Canvas Author:Guido Molinari
“Along with a dozen other students I had dissected a human cadaver and sorted its contents by size, color, function, and weight. There was nothing pleasant about the experience. Its only consolation was its truth and its only virtue was its utility.” HumansVirtueStudentsColorWeightFunctionSizePleasantDozenConsolationUtilityCadavers Book:Spin Source: Spin
“Printing and transporting paper is very expensive, and e-books eliminate the expensive four-color printing, the higher quality paper, the ocean shipping, the customs clearance, the inventory, answering the telephone, writing up the orders, picking, packing and shipping and managing all of these functions. So we eliminate a huge number of costs and the chance that those books won't sell.” WritingBookOrderChanceNumbersQualityFourColorHugeHigherCostPaperOceanFunctionSellsExpensiveCustomsTelephonesPrintingPackingInventoryShippingHuge NumbersClearance Author:Dan Poynter
“The shiny red color of the soles has no function other than to identify to the public that they are mine. I selected the color because it is engaging, flirtatious, memorable, and the color of passion.” PassionMinesColorRedFunctionMemorableEngagingSelectedColor RedFlirtatious Author:Christian Louboutin
“The master of ceremonies asked people to say what they thought the function of the novel might be in modern society, and one critic said, “To provide touches of color in rooms with all-white walls.” Another one said, “To describe blow-jobs artistically.” PeopleSaidMightJobsWhiteRoomsNovelModernColorMastersWallFunctionCriticsBlowCeremonyModern SocietyBlow JobMaster CeremonyWhite Walls Book:SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE Source: SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE
“The melting pot failed to function in one crucial area. Religions and nationalities, however different, generally learned to live together, even to grow together, in America. But color was something else. Reds were murdered like wild animals. Yellows were characterized as a peril and incarcerated en masse during World War ii for no really good reason by our most liberal president. Browns have been abused as the new slave labor on farms. The blacks, who did not come here willingly, are now, more than a century after emancipation by Lincoln, still suffering a host of slave like inequalities.” WorldHas BeensStillsDifferentWarReasonTogetherAmericaSufferingGrowsPresidentAnimalCenturyColorAreasLaborFunctionSlaveImmigrationInequalityWar Of The WorldsPotFarmsCrucialHostWorld War IiWorld War IPerilNationalityMeltingEmancipationWild AnimalMelting PotSlave Labor Author:Theodore Hesburgh
“Designing is not a profession but an attitude. Design has many connotations. It is the organization of materials and processes in the most productive way, in a harmonious balance of all elements necessary for a certain function. It is the intergration of technological, social, and economical requirements, biological necessities, and the psychological effects of materials, shape, color, volume and space. Thinking in relationships.” ThinkingWayCertainSocialProcessSpaceAttitudeEffectsDesignColorMaterialsBalanceShapesElementsOrganizationFunctionProfessionPsychologicalProductiveVolumeTechnologicalRequirementsHarmoniousConnotation Author:Laszlo Moholy-Nagy