Octopuses are the undisputed kings of camouflage. Whereas engineers have learned to mimic the colors, octopuses also match ...

Many home landscapes burst with color in early summer, only to fade into a flat, uninspiring green by midseason or become visually empty once flowers disappear. This often happens because gardeners ...

To control color, the team sandwiched the polymer between two gold films. Light bounces off these films and interferes in ...

The Stanford team created a metasurface from a polymer previously used in solar panels and printable electronics. They found ...

Perseverance and a willingness to take risks underpins the best colour and texture design, but new products can be a catalyst, writes Felix Mara Why is it some architects combine colours and textures ...

Be it at any age, colour and texture are important elements for one’s cognition and well as development. Children (and even adults!) learn best and retain the most information when they engage their ...

There’s a time and a place for minimalism, but if you’re more inspired by the bright-patterned, plant-filled palaces that Justina Blakeney publishes on The Jungalow than stark, less-is-more design, ...