Skip to content

Challenges

Odd Ball

Pedestrians Beware

This road sign, designed by Jacob Sempler and Emil Tiisman, made a controversial appearance in Stockholm in November 2015.  When I spotted it, I wasn’t sure if it was waning […]

-Turkey

Sweet Istanbul

Hex colour reference:  #158078 A colourful note:  this dark green, with a hint of blue, is known in current Crayola boxes as pine green.  In fact, this shade of green featured in the original […]
Sweet Istanbul

-Kent

Piggy Pink for a Viking of the Day

  Hex colour reference: #fdd7e4 A colourful note: piggy pink is a Crayola name, introduced in 1998 as pig pink, but later softened to “piggy pink”.  And it seems a very close match […]

-Berlin

Deadly Love

This mural of  Leonid Brezhnev and Erich Honecker in a fraternal embrace is one of the most famous pieces of art on the Berlin Wall.  These two girls were keen to […]

-Manchester

Ultimate Power

Hex colour reference:  #c5d0e6 A colourful note:  this pale blue-lilac shade, known as periwinkle, is named after the flowers of the lesser periwinkle or myrtle herb. The first recorded use of […]

-Edinburgh

Edinburgh – or Athens?

Back in 1822, Charles Cockerell and William Playfair, created Edinburgh’s National Monument up on Calton Hill.  It was modeled on the Parthenon and made  to commemorate Scots who had died in […]

-Sweden

Peachy Nightscape in Stockholm

Hex colourful reference:  #ffcfab A colourful note:  peach is a delicate colour, named after the pale internal flesh of a peach fruit.  The first recorded use of this name as a […]

-Kent

Pacific Blue

  Hex colour reference: #1ca9c9 A colourful note: this greenish-blue shade appeared in Crayola fashion in 1992, known simply as #16.  This naming by number was a way of promoting that […]