Colour Design Seminar – Strategies to improve Environmental Visual Literacy in Aged Care Facilities. This colour design seminar focussed on environmental visual literacy and colour/contrast strategies that can improve the interface between environmental design and users. Environmental visual literacy relates…
Colour scheme for a Dementia Unit – This project involved providing evidence-based colour insight to the team responsible for the design of the Fraser McDonald Geriatric Psychiatric Unit. This dementia unit is located at Auckland City Hospital, Auckland District Health…
Colour contrast strategies – Healthcare design I had the opportunity to meet with members of the New Zealand Health Design Council and deliver a seminar on effective colour contrast strategies in healthcare design aimed at improving environmental visual literacy. The…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
