Pantone releases taboo-breaking Period red colour
Colour company Pantone and health brand Intimina have collaborated to create an "active and adventurous" red colour to start a positive conversation around periods. More
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Kaiku turns fruit and vegetable waste into natural pigments
Imperial graduate Nicole Stjernswärd has invented Kaiku, a system that turns plants into powdered paint pigments using vaporisation technology. More
UNStudio develops The Coolest White paint to cool down our cities
UNStudio and Monopol Colors have created an extremely reflective white paint that can reduce the amount of heat buildings absorb and cool cities in the face of climate change. More
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Black 3.0 is a "black hole in a bottle" that challenges Anish Kapoor's Vantablack pigment
Stuart Semple has released the "flattest, mattest, black acrylic paint in the world" and banned Anish Kapoor from using it, as the latest development in an ongoing feud between the two British artists. More
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Backdrop simplifies painting with easy-pour can and stick-on samples
US company Backdrop is aiming to ease the process of choosing the right paint, through a curated selection of colours and adhesive samples for testing on walls, along with an essentials kit and a redesigned can. More
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Nanolab releases own extremely black paint to rival Anish Kapoor's Vantablack
The latest contender in the fight to create the world's blackest black is a paint originally developed for NASA and now made available to the public. More
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World's first graphene paint launches in the UK
Miracle material graphene – considered the strongest substance known to science – has been used to make eco-friendly paint by manufacturer Graphenstone. More
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Stuart Semple creates cherry-scented version of Anish Kapoor's Vantablack
Artist Stuart Semple has revealed his latest creation in an ongoing colour battle with Anish Kapoor – an "open source" cherry-scented version of the Vantablack pigment exclusively licensed to Kapoor. More
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Anish Kapoor receives exclusive rights to blackest black in the world
Indian-born British artist Anish Kapoor has acquired exclusive rights to the revolutionary Vantablack pigment, said to be the blackest shade of black ever created. More
