istock
The Genesis of a Crowd Bruce Livingstone’s vision, born in the early 2000s amidst the burgeoning internet landscape, was deceptively simple yet profoundly disruptive: to democratize access to stock photography. He founded iStockphoto, initially as a project within his web development firm, Evolvs Media, fueled …
A portrait built from istock's own colours
Every 1 approved work contributes its dominant tone to a single flowing field. Sorted along the hue wheel, the strip reads as a smooth spectrum. Click any band to reveal its full four-colour palette.
Bands follow the hue wheel; visually identical tones are merged.
Every painting, placed on the hue wheel
Each dot is a work — its angle set by hue, its distance from the centre by saturation. Hover a dot to see the painting.
The signature, in numbers
Where the colour came from
Up to 24 paintings representing the most frequent palette tones — each shown with its dominant colours.