Painter Bridget Riley once said something to the effect that color only exists for the artist. That is, color as it is encountered in lived life, reflected off of this and that surface, is unquestioned — it simply is what it is; but for an artist (or a designer) color is “abstract.” Color for these people is removed, representational, perhaps even artificial — used to convey (emotions, moods or what have you). And since things must separate in order to appear, the knack for creating chromatic harmony is the key (juxtapositions). Which leads us to the site and work of designer/director Chad Miller whose command of color coordination is quite sophisticated. His selection of a gray overarching environment for his various projects was a prudent one. Similar in spirit to the way Wright and Barragán made the entrances to their buildings low and confined so that subsequent spaces felt large and impactful — the gray on Miller’s site generally subdues to maximize the subjective vigor of each of the varied project palettes.