For 100 days (October 30, 2008 - February 6, 2009), Rachel Berger picked a paint chip out of a bag and wrote about it. On Design Observer last night, she posted her favorite 40. Here's a taste:
07 Lipstick What's the difference between Sarah Palin and the next vice president of the United States? Lipstick.
48 Moss Landing Ken Kesey's Sometimes a Great Notion opens with a description of the frightening, dripping, verdancy of Oregon. It continues for many pages, and it's all true. In Portland, moss grows on the roofs of the houses, ferns sprout from cracks in the sidewalk, even the best maintained streets and buildings are prone to sliding around during the dark wet winter. One time in college, I came home for a holiday, and there were huge gray mushrooms growing out of my bedroom carpet.
57 Cool Melon Only three times in its hundred-year history has the Crayola company changed the name of a crayon. Prussian Blue became Midnight Blue in 1958 and Indian Red was renamed Chestnut in 1999, both in response to requests from educators. In 1962, the company voluntarily changed Flesh to Peach, partially in response to the U.S. Civil Rights Movement.
This project was generated by Michael Bierut's 100 Day Workshop at the Yale School of Art. For more, head over to Design Observer.
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