Jon Rafman artist promotional umbrella
Montreal born artist, filmmaker and essayist focuses on the impact of technology on the contemporary consciousness and how it distances us from ourselves. His work has gained much attention with his exhibitions of images found on Google Street View.
PMS or Pantone matching system
PMS – not to be confused with the monthly troubles women can endure, but the universal matching system that allows printers, designers and manufacturers to perfectly match colours on any fabric or material.
Great Tool from PANTONE, matching colour to Pantone references
We at the Umbrella Workshop, love colour We live and breathe it each day. We have our favourite colours, our troublesome colours and colours we think should not come out to play. PANTONE is the absolute resource for designers , clients and printers and manufacturers to speak in the same language of colour. As the Inuit tribes […]
Vantablack umbrella?
Acclaimed sculptor, Anish Kapoor, famed for his huge-scaled sculptures designed to unsettle the viewer and twist their surroundings, is exploring the possibilities of working with the world’s darkest, blackest material, Vantablack. We heard this exciting news this morning and read it in Dazed.
The History and Derivation of Umbrellas
The word umbrella originates from the word ‘Umbra’ which means the shade cast by an opaque object. In 1609 there is a mention in the English Poet John Donne’s letters. He uses the term ‘ombrello’. This was then altered with the influence of the word ‘Umbra’, from ‘Umbella’ to ‘Umbrella’: the word we recognise immediately today.