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# Tattfoo Tan’s Nature Matching System
- URL: https://www.protein.xyz/tattfoo-tan-8217-s-nature-matching-system/
- Published: 2011-03-30T10:50:40.000Z
- Updated: 2025-05-28T11:03:55.000Z
- Description: Asking you to ‚Äòremember to take your daily dose of colour‚Äô may sound like a bizarre fashion…
- Author: Protein
- Tags: Seeds, Art & Design, Food & Drink, #protein, #Import 2024-06-11 13:15, #author-change-2025-05-28

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Asking you to "remember to take your daily dose of colour" may sound like a bizarre fashion trend but for [Tattfoo Tan](http://www.tattfoo.com/?ref=protein.xyz), a Malaysian-born artist now based in New York it’s become a mantra for his [NMS – Nature Matching System](http://www.tattfoo.com/projects.html?ref=protein.xyz) project. The NMS uses shades of colours sourced from farmer’s markets; Tattfoo takes photos of produce and using Photoshop’s eyedropper tool has extracted 88 colours to represent 88 different fruits and vegetables.

These intense shades represent a new way to appreciate nutrition, as a natural indicator for phytochemicals and beneficial nutrients – so the more colours per meal, the better. Calling them nature’s own nutrition labels, in 2008 Tattfoo has enlisted the help of local schoolchildren and the [New York City Department of Transportation](http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/?ref=protein.xyz) and the [DUMBO](http://dumbonyc.org/?ref=protein.xyz) Improvement District, he painted a mural of the NMS, installing the mural under the Manhatten Bridge where it stayed for 11 months. Since then he is currently working on a mural for in the playground for Brooklyn’s PS791 school, which will be completed this summer, bringing more healthy reminders to an urban environment.

See more of Tattfoo’s Nature Matching System, which pieces including films, placemats, murals, colouring books and screensavers [here](http://www.tattfoo.com/projects.html?ref=protein.xyz).