Diageo outcompeted local distillers by painting bars in bright colours and providing them with flat-screen televisions.

ECONOMIST: Schumpeter

Trained as graphic designers, they kitted out the space in bright colours and covered the walls with framed photographs of the neighbourhood.

BBC: A renaissance beyond Cartagena��s historic walls

Perhaps this helps explain why most of the 250 elephants that were recently on display and for sale in London were not painted white but in very bright colours.

BBC: No white elephants in this herd

Ms Ni Dhulchaointigh is now taking Sugru, which comes in a variety of bright colours, into shops.

ECONOMIST: A peculiar product��s peculiar route to market

It was the beginning of what has been called the Great Male Renunciation, which would see men abandon the wearing of jewellery, bright colours and ostentatious fabrics in favour of a dark, more sober, and homogeneous look.

BBC: Why did men stop wearing high heels?

Teeny tiny and super shiny, the ONE TOUCH FIRE is an easy-to-choose, easy-to-use smartphone in a range of seven bright colours and a compact, pocket-friendly design.

ENGADGET: Alcatel One Touch Fire joins the Firefox OS cuddle party, we go hands-on (video)

Swings and slides remain fenced off after complaints that the bright colours were "out of keeping" with nearby homes in Cirencester.

BBC: Corinium Via playground remains shut in paint colour row