The bright blasts of color were also evident in those single-serve coffee makers, which were everywhere.
Attention-grabbing figures like Philippe Starck and the Dutch group Moooi archly undercut the smooth look with baroque decoration, blasts of color and pattern or razor-sharp edges.
Coming upon it after the grinding asceticism of Documenta, I was at first elated by the blasts of color and pizzazz.
Though I welcomed a few generous blasts of color here and there in the designs (costumes are by Judanna Lynn, sets by Beowulf Boritt, with lighting by Jason Kantrowitz), the overall impression is of a dim cartoon.
I was awe-struck by the stunning vegetation: ancient trees, their branches stretching up to a brilliant blue sky, orange and lime trees, and the calcified stems of pigeon peas and tomato, relics from the time of the leper colony, and everywhere blasts of color, ripening fruit and wildflowers, red, orange, yellow, purple.
The models' plainness — an almost albino whiteness of skin with pallid lips and scraped-back hair — added to the severity, although Ms. Sander played subtly with color, mixing navy and brown, while orange, yellow and lagoon blue came in as a blasts of color.
It's with these friendly blasts of color that the JHU Hindu Students Council welcomed spring to the Homewood campus at their annual Hopkins Holi celebration.
Turning to Blandino's works, I see O'Keefe and again, as with Slonem, I see a pop iconography via the graphic blasts of color and impactful images all lined up, doing aesthetic duty like beautiful soldiers.
What they suggest is that the great gray mass of the building could still succeed as a bracingly alien presence on the Miracle Mile — but only if its imposing forms and severe palette are tempered with blasts of color, inventive landscape design and appealing, richly detailed public space at ground level.
"Monsoon Wedding" begins with a blast of colors, and a roof-raising blast of Bollywood score by Mychael Danna.
