160over90’s Color Scheme – Making Us More Creative and Food-Crazy?

February 9, 2009 • 3:01 pm • POSTED BY Gretchen

There was a recent study published in the journal Science about the effects of color on people’s performances. Unfortunately, the study mostly focused on the effects of blue and red on cognitive performance. I wished that they had explored the effects of other colors, and the blend of colors (such as purple) to see what effects, if any, these colors had.

 

However, from what was discovered in this study, it got me thinking about 160over90’s office color scheme (see below pics). Our main wall colors are a light seagreen/blue color, a deep yellow color, and an eggshell color. We also have accents colors of dark brown, silver, blonde, etc. Since the study did not look at any of the accent colors, I will have to disregard them until more research appears.

 

 

Based on the study, the color red can help people be more accurate and precise in their task performances and the color blue can help people be more creative. So our blue/green wall choice may help, if only slightly, us be more creative. Since I oversee finance/accounting, I am happy to discover that my favorite color red could be helping me be more accurate in my work. Woo hoo to that!

 

Also, my suggestion is that 160over90’s table tennis team should incorporate the color red into the design of uniforms because evenly-matched athletes wearing red win more against athletes wearing the color blue.

 

 

 

The funniest part of this study was the “cocktail party study” in which each room at the party was decorated in red, blue, or yellow. What the researchers discovered was that the guests in the red and blue rooms reported feeling hungrier and thirstier than the other guests, however the yellow guests ended up eating TWICE as much as the other guests! So now, I understand our agency’s love of food (as can be seen by the various food critiques posted on our blog). So the next time, leftover food from a meeting is put in the kitchen, and the “vultures” swarm down on it, we can all just say to ourselves “the yellow made me do it.”