19/05/2026
Visiting ? We recommend popping by ‘Joyful Misanthropy’ - just opened at , with prints by
About the installation:
Cult Vision and Colorville explore the joy of ‘colour naming’ at the Barbican, for Clerkenwell Design Week 2026.
Cult Vision is pleased to announce a new collaboration with Colorville / Color Makes People Happy, the independent paint brand founded and run by Simon March, for Clerkenwell Design Week 2026.
A window installation at Cult Vision’s Barbican shop will bring together Colorville’s new collection of hand-painted screen prints and colour cards, on display during Clerkenwell Design Week (19 to 21 May 2026) at Cult Vision, 14 Goswell Road, London EC1M 7AA.
Simon March has spent 28 years making paint, and naming it in ways that have nothing to do with heritage pastiche or trend forecasts. His colours take their names from popular culture, film, cartoons and the street. The results are irreverent, precise and entirely his own.
‘Joyful Misanthropy’ is a series of hand-painted screen prints and colour cards, which March describes as an exercise in the philology of color. The prints are simple, modernist designs: tools to assist in making colour decisions. They are not art - however if you would like to hang them on your wall, Simon would be delighted.
https://www.clerkenwelldesignweek.com/fringe/cult-vision
