For the graphically inclined or anyone else with a sense of visual play, Idée Labs has built an online application that allows you to search images on Flickr, the photo sharing site, using color as the search criteria. With the ‘Multicolour Search Lab’, you can select a single color or combine up to 10 colors and be presented with subsets of photos (50 at a time) selected from Flickr’s 10 million so-called ‘most interesting’ Creative Commons images.
Even though I’m in between hand-washing dishes, writing and assessing employees, it took only moments to produce the grids below. To see an individual photograph, just click an image you like from the grid to view it on Flickr.
search results using primary red
selected photo from the red grid
combination of light green, red, lavender and an orange-brown
selected photo from the combination grid
This is cool stuff for graphic designers, photographers, editors and those who appreciate the technology. Idée Labs provides a secondary application that allows you to upload and color search your own photos. Now what would be really cool is if I could apply this to my own subset of…say, a million photos of Africa!
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