Faber Birren painted his bedroom red to see if it would drive him mad, then designed the colors of the nuclear age
In 1919, a University of Chicago art student named Faber Birren dropped out after two years because no program existed for what he wanted to study: the effect color had on a person’s emotional state. He interviewed physicists and psychologists, ran his own experiments — at one point slathering his bedroom in red vermillion to see if living inside it…
