Observations: colour as movement

The autumn palette is a process. Leaves move from green to gold to rust gradually, irreversibly, contingently, progressively darkening from the edges to the centre as they respond to temperature, to rain, and to the particular light of each day. Noticing this shift is realizing that colour is more a movement than a state.
The most considered palettes in designed spaces often embody a similar evidence of time, incorporating materials whose colour is the result of a process rather than an immutable property.

The Observations grow from a daily habit of noticing details in nature and drawing design insights from them. They’re collected in a monthly digest as part of anooi’s newsletter, which gathers the studio’s world and explores the idea of nourishing spaces. The same attunement shapes the studio’s work, lives in A Biophilic Year – a book-object and online archive on people, nature, and design – and becomes a sensory practice with In Season, a seasonal physical letter.