next week: scarlet

The image above, from Stephen Von Worley of Weather Sealed, charts the evolution of Crayola’s color range over the past century or so.  He writes:

To create the chart, [he] gently scraped Wikipedia’s list of Crayola colors, corrected a few hues, and added the standard 16-count School Crayon box available in 1935.

Except for the dayglow-ski-jacket-inspired burst of neon magentas at the end of the ’80s, the official color set has remained remarkably faithful to its roots!

Ever industrious, Velo also calculated the average growth rate: 2.56% annually.  For maximum understandability, he reformulated it as “Crayola’s Law,” which states:

The number of colors doubles every 28 years!

Good thing we’re doing our project in 2010!  Apparently by 2050 Crayola will have over 330 shades of wax.

This excellent chart discovered via BoingBoing a few months ago– I hope it will make up for our absence here lately…  a bit?

next week month: indigo

next week: green-yellow*

The story of Ariel’s Dandelion- I have been utilizing some of my crayons to their fullest extent resulting in the final product leaving me with no more crayon. Over the holiday I tried playing with a combination of microwaving and baking in patterns on tinfoil. At the end I had no more crayon and a not so hot result. I tried scanning it, but the reflections caused scanning problems. Photography wasn’t much better, but I did it. I didn’t however upload the photo right away and, I don’t know where the original is and the picture has disappeared. Maybe it was destined to be an unrecorded performance piece with this as the only record.

next week: gray

next week:dandelion

next week: cerulean

next week: apricot

next week: violet (purple)