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Article re how the color and shape of rooms affects the thinking that goes on inside the rooms... "They tested 600 subjects when surrounded by red, blue or neutral colors-in both real and virtual environments. The differences were striking. Test-takers in the red environments, were much better at skills that required accuracy and attention to detail, such as catching spelling mistakes or keeping random numbers in short-term memory. Though people in the blue group performed worse on short-term memory tasks, they did far better on tasks requiring some imagination, such as coming up with creative uses for a brick or designing a children's toy. In fact, subjects in the blue environment generated twice as many "creative outputs" as subjects in the red one. Why? According to the scientists, the color blue automatically triggers associations with openness and sky, while red makes us think of danger and stop signs. (Such associations are culturally mediated, of course; Chinese, for instance, tend to associate red with prosperity and good luck.) It's not just color. A similar effect seems to hold for any light, airy space."

"This wiki has been created to support the 'Relationship between Teachers and Students' Cohort at the Learning 2.010 Conference held in Shanghai, September 16-18, 2010."

This would be great to show to kids - the second half - where they explain the different colours and what they represent from a personality/emotions perspective, a marketing perspective, politics and chakras. 

Awesome tool where you can upload an image & get the hex code for colours within it by clicking on them

color film footage of WWII in Singapore

A nice color scheme designer.

Put the link to an image in and it will generate a custom palette, complete with hexcodes for you

Great creative commons backgrounds for design/keynote/ibooks etc etc

Another colorful QR code generator

Various resources for customizing Google Sites, especially with colors and fonts

colour picker for websites etc. Very nice!

This site has some great suggestions for making beautiful posters. It talks about white space, font, color etc. It has links to hundreds of great examples to look at. 

"Importantly, our early indications suggest that the least effective method of reading may be the one society has been clinging to for centuries: reading on paper."

Twurdy uses text analysis software to "read" each page before it is displayed in the results. Then Twurdy gives each page a readability level. Twurdy then shows the readability level of the page along with a color coded system to help users determine how easy the page will be to understand.

Awesome tool for designing colour schemes e.g for websites

teaching resources for Art.

Beautifully designed palette search. Awesome. Great for website design.

Great for people with dyslexia, this tool adds gradient to words/lines of text to help with the issue of accidentally skipping a line.

Really interesting information on being a better online reader. The author suggests the following: "Maybe the decline of deep reading isn't due to reading skill atrophy but to the need to develop a very different sort of skill, that of teaching yourself to focus your attention. (Interestingly, Coiro found that gamers were often better online readers: they were more comfortable in the medium and better able to stay on task.)"