You’d think that everything that could be done with jigsaw puzzles has already been done, but artist and designer Clemens Habicht has reimagined this classic pastime by getting people to reassemble colors rather than shapes – 1,000 colors, to be exact.
His 1000 COLOURS puzzle follows a CMYK color gamut, which is one method by which printers achieve their colors. Though some of the colors are nearly imperceptibly different from each other, Habicht says the puzzle is actually easier than assembling a specific image; “Unlike ordinary puzzles where you are in effect redrawing a specific picture from a reference, you have a sense of where ever piece belongs compared to ever other piece. There is a real logic in the doing that is weirdly soothing, therapeutic.”
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