Color Changing Paints and Materials

Choosing colors for architecture, finishes and materials involves so many variables. Obviously, that is why we colorists are here to help. 

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Now add to the mix the option of color changing paints and materials.  Feeling too indecisive to pick just one color?  Well, there are more and more products coming on the market that let you avoid just one choice.  Granted many of these, to me, can easily cross the line into gimmicky. But with a little creativity and careful use, I can see the beauty and interest in some applications.

This company, Moving Color,  has a wide range of color changing tiles.  They respond to heat or touch and react a variety of ways from simply changing color to having painted landscapes change seasons. 

Color changing paints, such as a line from the company, Eclipse, make paint that changes from one color to another.

Italian designer Roberto Cavalli used color changing paint on his yacht.

No small price tag at around $500 per gallon. Yes this is the same designer who has a color changing house in Italy as well!

Italo Rota and partners

Other applications under consideration are for the use of road paints that change colors to alert drivers of changes in road conditions such as the presence of ice.   

As for me, I'm waiting for the car that changes colors with the push of a button.  Yes, a way has been developed in which a car can change colors in seconds with the flip of a switch using changes in electrical charges to produce a full spectrum of color choices. Imagine how much fun this will create for the DMV keeping track of all these color changing vehicles!

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