麻豆约拍

Designer Wayne Hemingway looks at five colours that have been at the centre of ownership and trademark battles, revealing the complex status of colours in our society - their artistic, commercial and cultural impact.

He explores our response to colour - whether it's the red soles of designer shoes, the blue strip of a football team or the purple of a chocolate bar wrapper.

He interviews those involved in branding, advertising and IP, as well as the psychologists, scientists , colour gurus, artists and those creating the colours of tomorrow using Nanotechnology.

Whether black is a colour is debatable.

Unlike colours which are created from the reflection of different wavelengths of light, black is created from the absorption of light.

Wayne tells the story of Vantablack - the blackest black created which, unlike other blacks, absorbs all but a tiny (less than 0.04%) of light. Anish Kapoor has bought exclusive rights to the black.

Wayne concludes the series by questioning the rights of colour ownership.

Producer: Sara Parker

A Juniper production for 麻豆约拍 Radio 4, first broadcast 4 in April 2017.

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