Nature surrounds us with the most dazzling colours — of flowers, animals, even stones — that are always in perfect harmony with each other. When viewing a Poppy Flower from up close, you might notice many colours in one single petal, ranging from red to Magenta, and from burnt umber to light Veronese Geen. ‘Colour Me Flower Booklet’ is a collection of 14 booklets that shows the colour combinations and proportions of 14 flowers.

Supported - Creative Industries Fund NL
Photo Credits - Andre Terlingen and Franciska Meijers

‘Colour Me Flower’ is a digital toolkit that invites you to explore, test, and choose colour combinations inspired by nature.

Franciska Meijers analysed nearly 200 flowers with an artist’s eye for beauty and wonder. 36 flowers were selected from Dutch gardens, parks and meadows to create a versatile palette with hand-painted colour swatched and RGB colours for digital and analog use. Explore the toolkit at www.colourmeflower.com.

Team - Franciska Meijers, Ingo Valente, Meeusontwerpt, and Milembe Horb
Text - Edo Dijksterhuis
Supported - Creative Industries Fund NL
Image Credits - Franciska Meijers

‘MERLN Magic’ the annual magazine of the MERLN Institute (Maastricht University). 

Design and Direction - Franciska Meijers Photography - Carlos Peniche Silva and Franciska Meijers
Editorial Team - Carlos Peniche Silva, Fiona Passanha, Liline Fermin, and Franciska Meijers
Printing - Robstolk® Amsterdam

‘Engadine Colour Dairy’ and ‘20 Hikes’

Residency - Fundaziun Naris, CH
Supported - Stichting Stokroos
Image Credits - Franciska Meijers

Stills from a short movie titled ‘Colours of the Engadine’. During a three-month stay in Swiss Alps, Franciska became fascinated by the colour changes of the landscape while ascending and descending. She collected objects (such as stones, leaves, moss, etc.) and translated these to paint and colour samples. The movie starts at an altitude 3206 meters and ends in the valley at River Inn.

Residency - Fundaziun Naris, CH
Supported - Stichting Stokroos
Image Credits - Franciska Meijers

Magazine ‘Solid & Shape’ to launch the new carpet tile collection of Studio Stefan Scholten for Desso Tarkett.

Studio Stefan Scholten for Desso Tarkett
Design and Direction - Studio Stefan Scholten
Photography - Pim Top

‘Colour Chart Library’ is a growing collection of hand-painted colour cards made with pigments, goache, ink, and metalics. The cards are a great tool to make new and unexpected colour combinations.

Photo Credits - Franciska Meijers

Woven Drawings 

Photo Credits - Franciska Meijers

The exhibition ‘Out of the Ordinary II’ at Museum Mudac (CH) is a journey along 15 projects of Studio Wieki Somers. The warm atmosphere of the museum spaces create on intimate relation with the pieces. A special color plan is designed for the spaces in which all the windows will be ‘open’ to let natural light in and allow the pieces to connect to the outside world. Every color is related to the theme in that room; the deep dark blue of the ‘Magical Reality’ space is a reference to an evening sky with light clouds kites floating above the Bathboat sailing of into the night. One can see the lake Geneva...

Studio Wieki Somers for Mudac, Museum of Contemporary Design and Applied Arts
Team - Studio Wieki Somers
Text - Studio Wieki Somers
Photo Credits - Hugo Plagnard

‘Diarama’, a tile collection for Mutina, is a study of a wide range of chromatic shades which are layered over coloured clay tiles – the collection is about pure color, applied on different ceramic bases like a second skin.

Jongeriuslab for Mutina
Team - Jongeriuslab
Text - Jongeriuslab
Photo Credits - Mutina and Jongeriuslab