A Dye & Design House · Grand Rapids, MI
Color is how we remember who we were before we stopped wearing it.
MORE ∞ JOY is a studio, a practice, and an invitation.
This Season's Colors
Spring - Vivid Hues
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How To Begin
Three Ways
Into Color
You might arrive curious, heartbroken, bored with your closet, or ready to make something. All of these are the right reason.
Make
Dye Something With Your Hands
Powdered pigment. Natural fiber. Water. No expectations. This will be the most meditative hour you’ll have this week — and you take something home.
Be Seen
Book A Portrait Session
You dress in colors that make you feel alive. We photograph what your body does when it feels free. Somatic, joyful, yours. I can’t wait to witness your joy blossom.
Wear
Shop
the Collection
We have 150 activated dyes, hand-dyed scarves, apparel, and jewelry — each piece one of a kind, each color chosen with intention.
More ∞ Joy · Color Education
Find Your Season
8 questions · no wrong answers · your result is a starting point, not a label
Question 1 of 8
In natural light, how would you describe your skin?
Go with your first instinct — there are no wrong answers.
Question 2 of 8
Look at the inside of your wrist. What color are your veins?
Check in natural daylight — this is one of the most reliable undertone signals.
Question 3 of 8
Which metal feels most like you — near your face, not just in your jewelry box?
Imagine wearing each one. Which makes your skin come alive?
Question 4 of 8
How does your skin respond to sun?
Think about your natural pattern — not what sunscreen changes.
Question 5 of 8
Which row of colors makes your face look most alive?
If you can, hold something near your face in natural light. Go with your gut.
Question 6 of 8
How do neutrals look on you?
Neutrals reveal undertone clearly — they don't distract from your face.
Question 7 of 8
What's your natural hair color — or the color it was before it changed?
If you've colored it for years, go with what felt most natural when you did.
Question 8 of 8
When a color stops you in your tracks — what word best describes how it hits you?
Instinct, not logic. What color stopped you last?
Sessions In Joy
Book Color Time
From the Portraits
Every color is someone's story!
Witnessing Becoming
Power Portraits
Our projects are not just collections — they are collaborations. Each series invites real people to explore color, movement, identity, and transformation through clothing and portraiture. From Power Portraits to immersive installations and fashion collections, every project begins with a simple question: Who do you become when you wear color that tells the truth about you? Explore past features, current collaborations, and upcoming open calls below.
Michigan Birds
Michigan Birds is a collaborative portrait project where individuals choose their favorite Michigan bird and are styled in garments inspired by its color and character.
Men In Motion
Men in Motion is a portrait series featuring men styled in dash-dyed garments and photographed in movement — in places where they come alive. This project celebrates masculine expression, individuality, and embodied identity through color and motion.
Spectrum Colors
The Spectrum Between Us was an immersive color installation for ArtPrize 2025 — inviting viewers to walk through suspended portraits and experience identity, healing, and joy through color and connection.
Understand Our 150 Colors
Color resources to guide you!
Learn
Understand Your Colors
Every color has four qualities that define it. Learning these four words will give you a vocabulary for every color decision you make going forward. Learn the language of color through psychology, history, and tools to find the hues that belong to you.
Hue is the color family — red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet, magenta. It’s the most obvious quality, the one we name first. But two reds can look completely different from each other, and that’s where the other three dimensions come in.
Every color leans either toward warmth (toward orange and yellow) or toward coolness (toward blue and violet). A warm red feels like fire or brick. A cool red feels like a berry or a blue-red wine. Same hue family, completely different presence and effect on your skin.
Value describes how light or dark a color is. Pale pink and deep burgundy are the same hue at opposite ends of the value scale. Light colors feel airy and fresh. Deep colors feel grounded and weighty. Value affects how much visual presence a color has.
Chroma describes the saturation or clarity of a color. A soft (muted) color has grey mixed in — it feels earthy, wearable, subtle. A vivid (clear) color is pure and saturated — it pops, demands attention, and feels bold. Soft chroma colors feel grounded. Clear chroma colors feel gem-like.
The Philosophy
Chromatic Kintsugi
Traditional kintsugi repairs broken pottery with gold, honoring the break as part of the story. Chromatic Kintsugi does the same — with color and cloth.
We fill the places where life has split us open with pigment instead of shame. Because the seams deserve to be seen, not hidden.
