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Still Life

A summer set, built from cocktail umbrellas

By
Daren Ellis

September 18, 2026
Creative Design

What a dozen dyed eggs taught me about restraint

By
Daren Ellis

September 11, 2026

Illustration

The beetle that wears every colour at once

By
Daren Ellis

September 4, 2026

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Still Life

Three bottles, five cacti and a sky made of cotton

By
Daren Ellis

August 28, 2026

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Creative Design

Carrying colour: a portrait on a yellow wall

By
Daren Ellis

August 21, 2026

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Illustration

By
Daren Ellis

August 14, 2026

Cadmium red, and why I keep coming back to it

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Street Art

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Daren Ellis

August 7, 2026

Reading a mural one eye at a time

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Brand Identity

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Daren Ellis

July 31, 2026

Pouring colour: a brief for a tea brand

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Street Art

By
Daren Ellis

July 24, 2026

Portraits in front of the monster wall

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Creative Design

By
Daren Ellis

July 17, 2026

Hands as a palette

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Street Art

By
Daren Ellis

July 10, 2026

A morning in the spray-can shop

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Street Art

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Daren Ellis

July 3, 2026

A rainbow arc and the discipline of the stripe

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Brand Identity

By
Daren Ellis

June 26, 2026

Inflatables, and designing for joy

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From the archive

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Daren Ellis

June 19, 2026

Triangles, and a bear made of nothing else
By
Daren Ellis

June 12, 2026

Sprinkles, and the smallest colour chart in the kitchen
By
Daren Ellis

June 5, 2026

One succulent against a blue wall

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About Me

I’m Daren Ellis, an illustrator and art director in Lisbon. This journal is where I write about colour: where it comes from, how it is made, and what it does to the people who look at it. A new story most Fridays.

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