If you see me gnawing at and/or slowly devouring my bedroom walls from this weekend onwards let me tell you now, it’s not because my body is craving plaster and dried up blu-tack from when I decided to cover my room with Tazos. It’s because I’m painting my room a delectable shade of Iced Vovo. Dulux hooked me in by naming their paint colours after that famous “pink fondant either side of a strip of strawberry jam and sprinkled with coconut” (according to the Iced Vovo page on Wikipedia which I may or may not be the main contributor to). But seriously how much pulling power does the name of a colour of paint have when choosing the shade for your bedroom walls? If I was in the market for a crisp white bucket of paint for my minimalist bedroom, no questions asked I’d pick Mexican Milk over White Watsonia any day. Purple gal? I’d recommend Astro Zinger or for a more subdue choice, try Fiddlesticks. If you want to liven things up with yellow you could swing by Cowardly Custard or even a nice shade of Garfield slapped on your wall. If you don’t have a sweet tooth and a bucket of liquid Iced Vovo doesn’t tempt you, there is always the savoury version called Slippery Salmon to fall back on. Dulux caters for everyone.
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John Jacobs // December 15, 2008 at 12:23 pm |
Hi Emily,
I always enjoyed the names of big bunches of things like this. Yore right paint names seem paticularly goofy. The other instance I think of like this is the names of pre-sets patches or sounds in synthesisers. One I like is on a Casio CZ100, ‘Mars to …?’ And it sounds pretty good too. I like to imagine wtf whent through the heads of the creators of the titles. And also guess some of the silly boardroom scenarios over at Dulux Corp. If there a just a few in a product line it’s probably pretty easy for the main design team to figure them out it would come naturally, but after a certain amount they would build up and become unwieldy and some committee would step in and try to ‘employ some serious logic’. Or maybe not,
…Garfield?