{"id":4,"date":"2026-09-25T07:42:29","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T07:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/daren-blocks\/about\/"},"modified":"2026-09-25T07:42:29","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T07:42:29","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/daren-blocks\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Hello<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’m Daren. This is a journal about colour.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

For fifteen years I have been paid to choose colours for other people: for book covers, for packaging, for a pool-float company and a tea that tastes of liquorice. This is where I write about the ones I choose for myself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most weeks that means a set I have built in the studio, a wall I have walked past too many times to ignore, or a paint I cannot stop using. Every picture here was made or found for the story it sits in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Daren Ellis<\/strong>
Illustrator and art director, Lisbon<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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What I write about<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Three things I cannot stop looking at, and the categories you will find them under.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Still Life<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Colour you can hold<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Sets built in the studio from whatever is the right colour: eggs, bottles, sprinkles, a chair.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Street Art<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Walls and the people who paint them<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Murals in Lisbon and wherever else I happen to be, looked at closely and slowly.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Illustration<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How a picture is made<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Paint, brushes, briefs and the decisions nobody sees in the finished thing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n

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A letter about colour, once a month<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The new stories, a palette I have been using and one thing worth looking at. No noise, and you can leave with one click.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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