What's your colour?

Red creates energy, blue inspires calm. Yellow evokes or reflects an open-minded personality, while green expresses an austere character, almost like an ancient tree spreading its branches skywards.
Black is the opposite of white: perhaps the end, or perhaps the beginning of a new scale of greys. Colour is without a doubt a very complex subject which has the power to influence socio-cultural behaviour.

As it happens with certain companies who make colour their advertising battle cry, identify with a particular shade and continue with the same identity for years, as a sign of a successful brand.

We know that from the three primary colours - red, yellow and blue - we can create a myriad of secondary ones, and an array of subtler shades (ochre, straw yellow, light or dark magenta). A whole rainbow, just like the map of our moods, emotions and fears, that leads to the fateful question: "What's your colour?"

 illywords 29, with the theme What's your colour?,  was produced with pictures by students of The Istanbul Bilgi University

Articles:

Letters from the editor - Ariella Risch
I get bored with dark, dark, dark, crime novels ... - interview to Mehmet Murat Somer
Reaching the light - interview to Luca Massimo Barbero
Colour. A question of life - interview to Odile Decq
The colour of susci - Roberta Corradin
"A" is a pretty shade of pink - interview to Edward Hubbard
The colour of rust - interview to Peter Lorenz
The kaleidoscope of art - Angela Vettese
All the colours of Amazonia - interview to Marcia Théophilo
Culture as a vision - interview to Jerome Sans
The opinion - Andrea Illy

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