Does green need to be more red?

In this week’s New Scientist, there’s a great article summarises all the different research that’s been done into the colour red. Semiotically it stands for a great deal – stop, danger, aggression, blood, etc. It turns out that this subliminally affects all of us, as we are ‘hard wired’ to view red as a dominant colour, and we’re not…

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More Demon than Angel

Warning: highly opinionated movie review follows…! Have you seen the new Angels & Demons movie based on the Dan Brown book, sequel to the Da Vinci Code? I was honoured to be invited to a Sony premiere at Sony Theatre (thanks to our kind hosts), but sadly the evening was far better than the film warranted – the highpoint…

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