Seminar on Environmental Visual Literacy – New Zealand dates: 25 October 2016 – NZ Health Design Council, Auckland 26 October 2016 – Auckland District Health Board (ADHB), Auckland 27 October 2016 – Industry organisations including BUPA, Oceania, Arvida The seminar…
Institutional Colour Design Evidence-based colour strategies for institutional design recommend using hues that are familar and homelike, and to minimise strong contrasts. These colour strategies are more likely to invoke positive response, enhance feelings of wellbeing and convey a sense…
Cinema Palettes on Instagram. Launched in October 2016, @cinema.palettes explores the use of colour and contrast in film, music videos and television. Check out Instagram @cinema.palettes here Colour and contrast can play key roles beyond aesthetics. Film makers use colour, contrast…
My consultancy work often involves evidence-based interior colour scheme strategies for private and corporate clients. Responses to colour are subjective and idiographic, so I always start with the client’s preferences in art and furniture, and then devise colour scheme options…
Colour Encyclopedia chapters – I was chuffed to be asked to contribute to the Encyclopedia of Color Science and Technology published by Springer, New York. In each of these chapters, I explored the ways in which colour has been discussed and applied:…
This colour supergraphics project by Zena O’Connor won a Landscape Maestro award (see website) and a Master Painters Association Community award (2017). Kesterton Park picnic huts, North Sydney. The project was timed to coincide with Vivid Sydney 2017 and featured high chroma…
Disruptive Colour is the title of an article I’m currently writing. A key twenty-first century colour strategy, Disruptive Colour is now evident across many areas of applied design and architecture. Disruptive Colour involves combining unusual, atypical colour combinations; using colour…
This 3 hour Colour Psychology seminar blends evidence-based colour psychology theories, practical examples and interactive exercises. The diverse origins of colour psychology theories are examined including the many exponents of colour psychology, some of whom were jailed for fraud. Takeaways…
Prue Miller of Sky Business News Real Estate asked me to be an occasional panelist and talk colour for real estate with her and co-host Bridie Barry. Saturday 10 September 2016. Topics included colour strategies to manipulate perceptions of space in…
In this post, I discuss the projects where I’ve used colour strategies to improve engagement, customer/client traffic, orientation and wayfinding in commercial interiors. ‘Meditrainean’ Restaurant – June 2016 This restaurant, which features a train of small dishes, had a make-over…
