COLORVILLE X CULT VISION: JOYFUL MISANTHROPY

Joyful Misanthropy

Cult Vision and Colorville explore the ‘joy of color 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 from early May and during Clerkenwell Design Week (19 to 21 May 2026) at 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.

For the duration of the window installation, customers will also receive a complimentary limited edition Cult Vision × Colorville lens cloth with any eyewear purchase, featuring International Banana Skin, number 3 from the new collection: a warm, bruised yellow that is exactly what it says it is, and entirely its own thing.

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DETAILS

Dates: During Clerkenwell Design Week 19 – 21 May 2026 (and until end of the year)

Location: Cult Vision, 14 Goswell Road, London EC1M 7AA

Times: Mon–Fri 8am–5pm, Sat 9am–1pm, closed on Sundays

Admission: Free, viewable from the street

Prints: £80 unframed / £180 framed | Parting Shots from £4

Shop prints here