Colors

Once, not so long ago, the streets of Thimphu had a brief brush with traffic lights. Now, only vague recollections of the alien structures remain. Kunzang Choden illuminates the mystery of the missing traffic light.

"The bamboo that grows in India is growing behind your calves!" ring the war cries of village archers. Bhutanese men are famous for their devastating marksmanship and for their insults. Kunzang Choden explains how to intimidate your opponent.

Three weeks of vacation spent feeding the dead. In Bhutan, death rituals are more important than birthdays and they last 49x as long. Kunzang Choden counsels us through a difficult time.

From April 4th to April 13th, Colors will present our three-issue series, "Colors Magazine: the Survival Guides" at the Design Museum in London.

Mitt Romney's robotic "eh. heh heh." creeps everyone out, but the Japanese push friendly insincerity to new extremes with a mandatory "grin-o-meter". So should we fake it or not?

While Bhutanese billboards conform to a sober government-approved aesthetic, giant penises wink from doorways and sprawl across the walls. Kunzang Choden talks art in the age of Gross National Happiness.