ColourLovers and MOO update...

If you don't know whatever in the world ColourLovers or Moo is, check out my previous posts re: them.

Now that you know that much, ColourLovers is one of the "designers" from whom you can order ready-made designs on Moo's products. ColourLovers submitted its top however-many palettes from last year for inclusion in its design packs, and I spied a few of my palettes in the shuffle.

Just thought I'd share that. If you're inclined to support Moo or CL by donating or buying something from either of them, know that you'd be supporting two very valuable and forward-thinking members of the internet's art+design community.

Either way, Moo added a design "Dropbox" to facilitate easier creation of the products you want, and I thought I'd brandish a handful of links to palettes of mine that were included in the pack :)

Victorian Wallpaper
Time Lapse
Mon Monsieur
Malaria

Some of my other very favorites are in there too... check it out.

COLOURLovers and MOO.

Now that I got ColourLovers out of the way, it's time for what I wanted to show off yesterday.

MOO is a progressive online printing service based in England. It enables users to print notecards, "minicards" and books of miniature stickers from Flickr, Second Life, or other personal designs; they also offer a selection of products from featured designers. You guessed it: one of those designers is ColourLovers.

Darius Monsef provided MOO with 120 of 2006's top Palettes, up to 50 of which appear in each assortment of cards and stickers.

If you want the whole story, take a gander at the CL blog entry HERE.
If you want to cut to the damned chase already, check out the MOO site.

And this is all cool, and I might have bought some of these anyway, but I'm buggering to blog about it because I've noticed from the snapshots that a couple of my palettes are included in the mix:

I think I spy

and

If I'm not mistaken, anyway. I don't expect CL to be buggered to divulge every one of the 120 palettes submitted to MOO, and near (far?) as I can tell without actually buying a pack, the designs you receive are random. So who knows which palettes were picked or what you'll get when you order... but I like to fall asleep at night knowing that, somewhere, someone could actually be using and enjoying the palettes I've frittered so much time building.

COLOURlovers.

I should have blogged about COLOURlovers a long time ago. Anyone who's interested in color, this is for you. If you know anything about color, particularly hexadecimal color, you're already home. If you don't know much about color, you'll pick up so much so fast. Either way, you create a little account and amass a collection of unique colors that you put a name to (here's a couple of my alltime faves)

and then build palettes out of your and everyone else's colors:


At this point, there are around 20,000 members, 340,000 colors, and 120,000 palettes registered. Users tag, give feedback about and rank colors and palettes (my current top five palettes run on the sidebar of this blog, actually), and monthly color trends in the media and on the net are monitored. Think Flickr, but with colors instead of photos. I'm a long-standing member at this point, and I've made some solid contacts there, and there's an influx of new membership and activity.

COLOURLovers is one of those rare things on the internet: it'll never cost you a dime, it's benign and all-inclusive in purpose, and the entire community is supportive, genial, and comprised of genuine people. Although it does have a proprietor, the illustrious Darius Monsef, being a Lover feels like being a shareholder and every user has a hand in shaping the site. Plus it supports the arts, which I'm a sucker for.

I could blather on and not do it justice. For some reason, it's always hard to explain. But have a gander; you might be snagged. More on CL to come.

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