Oscar Wilde once said, “Mere color can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways.” And he may have not known how right he was. Have you ever felt green with envy? Sang the blues? Been given the ...

Would they be the same ones you’d pick for an album cover or music video for the heavy metal band Metallica? Probably not. For years, my collaborators and I have been studying music-to-color ...

Imagine yourself as a graphic designer for New Age musician Enya, tasked with creating her next album cover. Which two or three colors from the grid below do you think would “go best” with her music?

Colors are thought to carry emotional meaning. Even more, many agree that color impacts us in the way we think and feel. We can find many sources that tell us to paint our bedroom walls in blues and ...

In the 1950s, the DuPont chemical company, based in Delaware, came out with a product that might have made the biggest impact on how you live in your home: acrylic paint, in every color of the rainbow ...

Psychologists explain how your home’s paint colors may be increasing stress, and which shades and design choices to avoid for ...

Psychologists have theories about how color affects emotions. And so do marketers, which is why they choose certain colors in advertising to get consumers to buy goods and services. No scientific ...

“When you do things from your soul,” writes Rumi, “you feel a river moving in you, a joy.” The river may be boisterous, with frothy waters surging fervently through its receding banks, shouting at the ...