Colors of Commerce exhibition

September 1st – September 30th 2011
FICTILIS, 210 S Washington St, Seattle WA

This exhibition focused on the colors of shipping containers in Seattle and other port cities. In our call for entries we asked for work with a limited color palette taken from the downtown Seattle port (Terminals 46 and 30).

We also conducted extensive research about the subject of container colors and produced an infographic, a swatchbook, and “Containerization” shirts for the show.

The exhibition features work by Therese Buchmiller, Christopher Gideon, Madeline Courtney, Marc Hume, Andrea Steves, Ron Hemphill,, Robin Siegl, Greg Boudreau, Robert Strah, Patti Bowman, David Verba, Nam Hoang, and Suze Wolf.

Design Less Better contributed a “telePORTation booth”, which transformed photos of visitors at the opening into container-shaped pixelated images using our limited palette.

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3 Comments

  1. Wunderkammer of Color: September 2011 Edition — Imprint-The Online Community for Graphic Designers wrote:
    September 23, 2011 at 4:38 pm

    [...] else is afoot for color-fans? I’m heartily sorry I missed Seattle’s Colors of Commerce exhibit, an art / design installation drawing from those big juicy blocks of industrial color, [...]

  2. color, colour, Jude Stewart, inspiration, design, gifts, trends, orange, pantone, tangerine, 2011, New Year, Color in Design Awards, Color Conference — Imprint-The Online Community for Graphic Designers wrote:
    December 29, 2011 at 6:02 pm

    [...] on from technology to art, I’m still sorry I missed the Color in Commerce exhibit in Seattle (#8) took as its premise the chunky blocks of color stacked in the form of shipping containers in [...]

  3. color, colour, Jude Stewart, inspiration, design, gifts, trends, orange, pantone, tangerine, 2011, New Year, Color in Design Awards, Color Conference — Imprint-The Online Community for Graphic Designers wrote:
    December 29, 2011 at 6:02 pm

    [...] on from technology to art, I’m still sorry I missed the Color in Commerce exhibit in Seattle (#8) took as its premise the chunky blocks of color stacked in the form of shipping containers in [...]