You can't change the weather, but you can make a gray rainy day more cheerful by bringing a touch of color to the streets. In Seoul, the monsoon season is fought with street art thanks to Project Monsoon (#ProjectMonsoon), a project that brought together a group of South Korean artists and the king of color, Pantone, at the same table.
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Time cannot be changed, but it is possible to render more cheerful a gray rainy day, reporting a touch of color in the streets. TO Seoul, the season of monsoons it is fought with blows street art, thanks to Project Monsoon (#ProjectMonsoon), a project that brought together a group of artists from the South Korea and the king of color Pantone.
three weeks every year the city of Seoul is transformed: the monsoons wipe out everything, the environment becomes gloomy and gray, roads desolate. To remedy this situation as well depressing, the team of collective D&AD proposed to coloring the streets of the Korean capital with a special paint which appears only at contact with water.
In practice whenever it rains, on the asphalt begin to appear patches of color. The result is what you see in these pictures but I am alone Reproductions of how yes would transform the streets if the city administration decides to marry the project.
A street art idea who would therefore like to modify the perception of the monsoon season and encourage the inhabitants not to necessarily associate the rainy period with a sad moment but, to give it a new one positiveness, of course thanks to the color.
From light blue to yellow, from red to green, from orange to purple, the combination looks like that of one children's palette and even the drawings reproduce simple and linear images, there are for example turtles, whales and fish.
It remains only expect the decision of the Seoul administration imagining pastel colored rainy days!
Dominella Trunfio
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