OK - can't help it - I have to show you this. You know how you can search Flickr by tag, by user, by picture title, by location, whatever. Well now, you can search by COLOR. The Multicolr search lab lets you pick a few colors (up to ten, I think), then it searches Flickr for a whole bunch or images with those colors.
This sounds random and not very interesting unless you are in publications or marketing, but seriously, have a look. The key to it is that it doesn't bring you any images with your selected colors. No, it only searches what Flickr calls "interesting" images - using what I am sure is some complex algorithm or something (or a bunch of dudes in a room surfing), Flickr calculates an image's interestingness based on "where the clickthroughs are coming from; who comments on it and when; who marks it as a favorite; its tags and many more things which are constantly changing" - and so the most interesting pictures also change based on all the new images which come into play all the time.
When I plugged in my associations' very boring yellow and blue corporate colors, I got a whole ton of creative photos. Here are just a few. (Sorry if the resolution did not come out great here in the post - see the whole group here). And this is just with three colors! Just think what you can come up with if you plug in more!
Obviously you would need to ask permission (or to check the Creative Commons license) for any picture you wanted to actually use, but I bet this could get your marketing or design team out of a post-campaign slump....
Thanks to ReadWriteWeb for the find.
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