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‘If fashion were a song, colour would be the beat.’ – Fran Keenan, Saks Colour is the first thing other people notice about us, and its impact is immediate and long-lasting. Our fashion colour choices say a lot about the image we are trying to portray and how we feel about ourselves. Everyone expresses themselves through colour. From the moment we pick out our clothes in the morning, to the shade of lipstick or scarf we put on, to the time we put on our pajamas at night, colour factors into how we convey emotion, identity, and meaning. So if colour is so fundamental, it only makes sense for brands to adopt a colour strategy that conveys their core values to consumers in a single glance. Unfortunately, colour is also one of the most fluid and frustratingly subjective things to quantify. Psychoanalysist and Sigmund Freud collaborator Carl Jung famously said, “Colour is the mother tongue of the subconscious.” So if the effects of colour are so difficult to codify, how can bra...

Figuring out which lenses will suit our specific needs is not that simple.There are hundreds of lenses presently available across the major lens makers. Thus how do we go about choosing a lens for our needs?Selecting a lens is totally different game to selecting a camera, and it’s complicated by the fact that two lenses often appear the same on paper however vary in price considerably. There are several abbreviations and specifications we need to know, and different manufacturers use utterly different abbreviations for exactly the same properties. The  process of  narrowing  down  the selection to a handful of options is stressful. APERTURE Most apertures are stated on all lenses. Aperture is provided as an aperture number, such as f/2.8.Higher the aperture number, the cheaper is the lens. It tells us how much light the lens can get through to the sensor at its best. Much light means we can keep shooting in darker conditions without the image...

Furniture matters to interiordesigners like books to librarians. It's important because interior design is concerned with the design of spaces and what makes the space is furniture. In this article, we'll discuss the various aspects of this 'making'. Function and Furniture Interior designers use existing furniture or new ones in types of ready-made, custom-designed, or built-in. Every furniture is made with user needs and function in mind. Function determines what a furniture should do like sleeping (beds), eating (tables), or seating (chairs). Function determines what a space should do, too. Analyzing how a space will be used and what activities will take place at that space marks the programming phase of interior design where furniture is involved. Function determines which furniture and furnishings (appliances, fittings, and accessories) are necessary for the usage of space, too. Space Planning & Furniture Furniture and functionality work togeth...