I’m very chuffed to have provided Steve Tidball of Vollebak UK with some evidence-based high visibility colour insight. London-based start-up Vollebak is a cutting edge, experimental adventure brand that creates adventure sports clothing using insights and discoveries from diverse fields such…
I provide evidence-based corporate colour assessment and brand colour strategies for existing corporate colours and new logo design development. Brand and corporate colours need to achieve a number of diverse objectives: Colours need to appear compatible with corporate values and…
Colour/Contrast Strategies to Improve Environmental Visual Literacy Universal Design Symposium – 26 October 2016. ANZ Viaducts Events Centre, Auckland. Environmental visual literacy occurs at the interface between design and users. It relates to the way in which users ‘read’ visual…
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…
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…
This colour supergraphics design was proposed for a project in North Sydney to coincide with Vivid Sydney 2017. I designed this colour supergraphic for submission to North Sydney Council for consideration on 1 June 2016. The aim of the project was…
INTERIOR magazine published my interior colour scheme review of the unique CIGA project in Christchurch, New Zealand.
I did an interview with the editor of INTERIOR magazine while in New Zealand in February 2016. Federico Monsalve has the enviable job of editing INTERIOR, which showcases the best of NZ’s commercial interiors. We discussed colour in interior…
In a media interview with Laura Trieste, I discussed a simple interior colour scheme formula. This formula equates to 60% Dominant hue/tonal value; 30% Auxiliary hue/tonal value and 10% Accent hue/tonal value. This approach to interior colour provides a cohesive…
