AIC NEWSLETTER - FEBRUARY 2024
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AIC2024 Brazil: Call for Papers Open until March 21st
The Brazilian Color Association (Associação ProCor do Brasil) is hosting AIC2024 Midterm Meeting in partnership with ESPM University, which will be the conference venue.
The Conference Theme is Color Design, Communication and Marketing. The conference program dates are 17 – 19 September, 16
September for Workshops, 2024, when it is Spring in São Paulo, Brazil. The conference chairs are Paula Csillag (ESPM and ProCor), Cristina Helena de Mello (ESPM), Vien Cheung (Univ Leeds), Carol Bustos (ESPM), and Ricardo Zagallo Camargo (ESPM).
Selected papers presented at the conference will be invited to produce extended versions for a special issue for the AIC2024
in Color Research and Application,
Color Culture and Science Journal, orJournal
of the International Colour Association (JAIC). The three best poster presentations will be awarded by
The Colour Group (GB)’s Robert W. G. Hunt International Poster Awards. Best student papers will be awarded
with the AIC’s Student Paper Awards. A total of six awards will be given to the winning paper, the first
runner-up, the second runner-up, and three honorable mentions.
On behalf of the International Color Association, the AIC2024 Organizing and Scientific Committees invite you to participate
and submit abstracts in English related to the conference theme, Color Design, Communication, and Marketing. The theme covers different aspects and can fit into the following conference topics:
- Colour in Branding and Marketing
- Colour and Consumer Behavior
- Colour in Design and Visual Communication (all forms of Design)
- Colour and Consumer Products
- Industrial colour application (Cosmetics, paints, textiles among others)
- Colour in Interior Design and Architecture
- Colour Semantics and Semiotics
- Colour and Psychology
- Colour and Physiology
- Colour and Physics
- Colorimetry and Colour Control and Colour Order Systems
- Colour Education
- Colour in Art, Culture, and History
Please click on the
conference site
for the Call for Papers guidelines and deadlines.
We will be glad to see you at AIC2024!!!
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AIC EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE NEWS
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International Colour Day, ICD 2024
The International Colour Day (ICD) is held on 21st March each year. The ICD aims to develop awareness of colour phenomena and culture
in all domains of Art and Humanities, Science, and Technology.
ICD 2014 - Celebrations
Wherever you find yourselves on this colourful Earth, the International Colour Day is a month away!
We are moving rapidly forward to March, so if you have not yet made preparations for your 2014 celebration, we encourage AIC members (Regular, Individual, Associate, and Study Groups) to do so through diverse activities or events. You can do so in partnership
as has happened in the past. Celebrations can be held around 21st March, before or after. If you are interested in former examples of activities and events, find them
in this link or in the AIC Annual Reports where the information is more descriptive and complete. We will post ICD 2024 celebration announcements that are sent to internationalcolourday(at)gmail.com
Please note that there is a difference between posting your ICD 2024 celebrations on the AIC website in March, and your post-celebration ICD reports that will be published in AIC Annual Report 2025. We shall ask you for the latter until July.
Do not hesitate to contact us for assistance.
Book Publication - International Colour Day: A Decade and Beyond
The book project International Colour Day: A Decade and Beyond by the Journal of the International Colour Association - Special Issue 2023 was presented by the ICD coordinator, Maria João Durão at the AIC 2023 Congress in Thailand and will be launched
at the AIC 2024 Meeting in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Editors: Maria João Durão, José Luis Caivano, Vien Cheung, Berit Bergstrom
Design coordination:
Luísa Martinez, Joana Perry
Design: Rita Costa, Larisa Mudava
Polycromatic wishes for a happy ICD!
Maria João Durão, ICD coordinator
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Dr. Pei-Li Sun joined the AIC Executive Committee
Dr. Pei-Li Sun, proposed by the AIC2025 Congress Regular Member organizer, joined the AIC Executive Committee 2024-25 term. Pei-Li
Sun was awarded his PhD at Color and Imaging Institute of Derby University in UK. He is an associate professor of Graduate Institute of Color and Illumination Technology in National Taiwan University of Science and Technology (NTUST). His main research interests
include color engineering, image quality assessment and AI image processing. He is currently the executive supervisor of Color Asociation of Taiwan (CAT) and the secretary-general of the Taiwan Association of Color Applications (TACA). He has published more
than 100 papers and 3 book chapters related to color imaging and image processing.
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New Study Group: Color in Games and Toys
We announce the creation of the Study Group on Color in Games and Toys. Focus of the group is the use of color in gaming contexts,
particularly in games, boardgames, video games, and toys. The group aims to bring together researchers, experts, and enthusiasts in the field and intends to explore in-depth the importance and impact of color in these contexts. Special attention will be given
to the use of games and toys by color-blind users. A special session on these topics will be held at AIC2024 in Brazil.
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AIC REGULAR MEMBERS' NEWS
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Australia - Colour Society of Australia
Dynamic Colour in Digital Art with Steve Forster (Long Island Academy of Fine Art, USA)
On February 17, join us for the 4th in our
"Creating Colour"
series of webinars, when Steve Forster will give us a taste of his digital creative process, in particular the way he approaches and creates diversity in colours and colour palettes. Stay posted for our hybrid in-person and online ICD 2024 event
exploring some superb portfolios of colour exercises by students of
Phyllis Shillito. Recordings of both sessions will be publicly available on the
CSA YouTube channel.
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Belgium - Interdisciplinary Colour Association (ICA) - Belgium
Upcoming ICA Belgium Events
March 17, 10:00 CET: Online International Colour Day Event
For more information, please visit
our website.
April 24, 10:30 - 16:00: 1-day Workshop COLOUR STORIES
Colour Mapping the Living Past: an Investigation into the Colours of Antiquity, Reimagining a Colour Narrative. The workshop is part of the exhibition 'Antiquity in Colour.'
At: Gallo-Roman Museum, Tongeren, Belgium
Recordings of our Sunday Morning Colour Talks are available on our
YouTube Channel.
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Canada - Colour Research Society of Canada
Upcoming CRSC Event
March 21, 7pm Eastern: AGM KEYNOTE: Out of the Blue? Colour as strategic tool in the built environment to engage
with the community, by Udo Schliemann
The relationship between colour in branding, signage and building identification for cultural centres, public buildings and the workplace environment will be discussed. Colour is used strategically to ‘speak’; to user groups in ways that words are not able
to do. Colour is used as a communication tool to attract, to lower the threshold anxiety to enter a building and to create an association of identity. Udo is Principal Creative Director at Entro Communications in Toronto, a leading studio for branding, wayfinding
and experiential design.
Register here.
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Chile - Asociación Chilena del Color
A Local Colour Chart of Valdivia, Southern Chile
The ACC members, Elisa Cordero Jahr and Ingrid Calvo Ivanovic, are working on the research project “Los Ríos en Colores"
(funded by ANID, Chile's National Agency for Research and Development). The project aims to create an identity colour chart of the Los Rios Region, a territory with more than 60 rivers, 11 lakes, and different types of vegetation and soils. To portray the
chromatic atmosphere of the territory, the research team has made field visits during all seasons of the year in the twelve communes of the region, collecting atmospheric colours (skies, waters, and forests) and colours of landscape objects such as rocks,
sands, flowers, leaves and other plants.
This collection of colours has led to the development of a methodology that has, among other actions, homologated the perceptual
colours to standardised samples in colour management systems. The main goal is to highlight the value of local identity for design and architecture applications using local colours that denote their belonging to the territory. This initiative is a pioneer
in Chile, and the team will seek, in a future stage, to replicate it in other regions of the country or the world. During January, the team selected a definitive regional colour chart of 48 colours from the almost 300 colours surveyed, in addition to creating
40 colour palettes, following different methodologies and combination techniques. The chart and palettes will be available from the middle of this year on the project website and
Instagram account.
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Great Britain - The Colour Group (Great Britain)
A Tribute to Professor Sophie Wuerger
In January the Colour Group (GB) held its customary Colour Vision Meeting, at which the annual Palmer Lecture was delivered
by Professor Daniel Osorio, University of Sussex, UK. The meeting began with a special tribute to the previous year’s Palmer Lecturer, Professor Sophie Wuerger. The announcement of her sudden death came early in January. Various events to celebrate her life
and achievements have already been planned within Britain’s colour community, and the Colour Group (GB) will take part as well as celebrate her as one of its active members. Professor Wuerger was one of the regular organisers of the Group’s Colour Vision Meetings.
After obtaining a PhD at New York University (NYU) in visual neuroscience with Michael Landy and John Krauskopf, Sophie Wuerger
continued as a post-doctoral researcher at NYU with John Krauskopf and Larry Maloney, before joining the Institute of Ophthalmology at the University College London as a postdoc to work with Michael Morgan. She then moved on to hold permanent positions at
the University of Keele and then at the University of Liverpool. In 2001, Professor Wuerger was awarded a Senior National Research Council Fellowship to work at NASA Ames (CA) on computational vision models. Subsequently, she held visiting professorships at
the University of Regensburg and the Computer Vision Centre at the University of Barcelona and an honorary professorship at the University of Science & Technology, Liaoning, China.
Professor Wuerger’s main research interests were vision research and how the brain combines information from the different
senses (multisensorial perception). She used primarily behavioural methods, but also electrophysiology and functional brain imaging. According to Professor Wuerger, her specific interests of late included: Modelling skin appearance; 3D printing; and higher-order
appearance mechanisms. Her research was funded by research councils including the Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council, the Wellcome Trust, the Royal Society and the Economic and Social Research Council. She also was a co-founder of a University
of Liverpool spin-off company on hardware-free display calibration. This applied research has been funded by the Technology Strategy Board, the Merseyside Investment Funds and other industrial partners.
For
more information, please refer to her ORCID profile
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7th International “Colour in Film” Conference
A month earlier, in December, the Colour Group (GB) held the Seventh International Conference
Colour in Film: Colour and Underwater Cinematography at Metro Kinokulturhaus in Vienna. It was organised by Dr Elza Tantcheva-Burdge (Colour Group (GB)), Professor Ulrich Ruedel (HTW, Berlin) and hosted by the National Film Archive of Austria.
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Norway - Forum Farge
Forum Farge (AIC Norway) Annual Meeting will be held in Oslo on March 7, starting with a colour
seminar with presentations by Associate Professor Elise Dees Krekling, Department of Optometry, Radiography and Lighting Design, University of South-Eastern Norway, and urbanist, photographer, and colourist
Ingvild Constance Festervoll Melien. The talks will explore colour vision in low light conditions and strategies for creating a comprehensive colour guide for a completely new district in Oslo, Norway.
Program and info available at
www.forumfarge.no
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Switzerland - pro colore
Visit the paint company Thymos AG
Date: March 15, 2024, 4.00 pm - 7.00 pm
Location: Thymos AG, Niederlenzer Kirchweg 2, 5600 Lenzburg, Switzerland
After the 33rd General Assembly of pro colore, we will celebrate International Colour Day with a guided tour of the headquarters
of Thymos AG, a company for natural colours that has been combining proven raw materials with state-of-the-art production technology since 1987. We will discover the firm’s product ranges and learn how we can use them to create trend-conscious colour schemes.
More
information:
https://procolore.ch/treffs/thymos-lenzburg/
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Interactive workshop on colour & visual impairment
Date: 20 April 2024, 10.00 am - 2.00 pm
Location: Haus der Farbe, Langwiesstrasse 34, 8050 Zürich, Switzerland
What are the requirements for barrier-free architecture and colour design for people with sight loss? Under the guidance
of a visually impaired person, the importance of colour contrast, material quality and finish will be discussed. The architects from Esch. Sintzel GmbH will then present their planned building for the care and health centre Blindenheim in Basel. This meeting
is being held jointly with the Association of Swiss Colour Designers in Architecture.
https://www.bsfa.ch
More information:
https://procolore.ch/treffs/sehbehinderung/
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Thailand - Colour Society of Thailand
Announcement of Asia Color Association, the 8th
ACA2024 conference
The Color Society of Thailand is pleased to announce
that we will host the 8th ACA2024 conference in Bangkok. The ACA conference originated in 2013 at Rajamangala University of Technology Thanyaburi, Thailand. Subsequent conferences took place in 2016 in China, 2018 in Thailand, 2019 in Japan, 2021 in Indonesia
(online), and 2022 in Taiwan. The Color Society of Thailand (CST) has decided to host the 8th ACA2024 conference in Thailand. ACA's member countries include Taiwan, Thailand, Japan, China, Indonesia, Singapore, and New Zealand. Currently, Professor Tien Rein
Lee serves as the coordinator, succeeding Professor Mitsuo Ikeda.
Chulalongkorn University will host the 8th ACA2024 conference,
aligning with the conference's motto of being an "Economical conference," a concept initiated by Professor Mitsuo Ikeda. The ACA conference aims to encourage young researchers and students to present their work at an affordable cost, and even if their English
proficiency is not perfect, they can receive guidance from senior researchers during the conference. CST has scheduled the conference for November 13-16, 2024, with the theme "Harmony in Hue: Bridging Colors and Code."
More information:
https://aca2024.sc.chula.ac.th
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AIC ASSOCIATE MEMBERS' NEWS
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Color Marketing Group (CMG)
It’s forecasting season! Join CMG in shaping our 2026+ World Color Forecast™
At Color Marketing Group®, Spring means forecasting season! We’ve planned a calendar of global color forecasting ChromaZone®
workshops across the next few months.
Join us for Latin American ChromaZones in February and March; an in-person European Conference in March; North American ChromaZones
in March and April; and Asia Pacific ChromaZones in April. We are also hosting a special
ChromaZone+ event
in Cleveland, Ohio, that will enable even closer connections with your fellow color enthusiasts!
More information:
https://colormarketing.org/event/2024-chromazone-workshops/
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New book: The Art of Color Categorization, by Kyoko Hidaka
‘The Art of Color Categorization' explores how cultures establish color names and standards from Newton to today and how these are tied to environments and perceptions. It also investigates
potential links between Western color systems and racism by analyzing color theories. As a 193-page hardcover/Kindle release by Palgrave Macmillan on January 25, 2024, it promises enlightening thoughts on color theory's complex relationships with categorization
and societies. SG ECD member Kyoko Hidaka holds a PhD from the Tokyo University of the Arts in Japan and is an associate professor at the Shibaura Institute of Technology and a board member of the Color Science Association of Japan. Kyoko studies color order
systems for communication.
HIDAKA, Kyoko. 2024. The Art of Color Categorization. Cham (Switzerland): Palgrave Macmillan. Hardcover, ISBN 978-3-031-47689-1 (English) XIX, 193 pages.
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-47690-7
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New book: Landscape Design in Color - History, Theory, and Practice 1750 to Today, by Mira Engler
In her new book, Emerita Professor of Landscape Architecture at Iowa State University and SG ECD member Mira Engler inquires into the themes, theories, and debates on color and its impact
on practice in Western landscape architecture over the past three centuries.
ENGLER, Mira. 2023. Landscape Design in Color: History, Theory, and Practice 1750 to Today. Routledge. ISBN 9781138343962 (English) 232 pages.
https://www.routledge.com/Landscape-Design-in-Color-History-Theory-and-Practice-1750-to-Today/Engler/p/book/9781138343962
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New book: Colours of the Great Heart - Resonating with Sirius, by Barbara Diethelm
SG ECD member Barbara Diethelm, owner of the artist's colour manufactory Lascaux Colours & Restauro and co-founder of the Foundation Lascaux, has published a book on her Sirius colour system
and the holistic, cosmic, spiritual, creative, and philosophical approach underlying it.
DIETHELM, Barbara. 2023. Colours of the Great Heart - Resonating with Sirius. Elsau: Alataverlag. ISBN 978-3-9521130-1-1 (English) 240 pages.
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New book:
The Book of Colour Concepts, by Alexandra Loske and Sarah Lowengard
From the 17th century to the advent of the digital age, colour theories have been illustrated with luscious wheels, polychrome charts, and meticulous diagrams.
Gathering over 65 works from around the world, this illuminating edition traces the endless hues and shades of a subject that inspired Newton, Goethe, Sanzō Wada, the Bauhaus, and many more.
LOSKE, Alexandra & LOWENGARD, Sarah. 2024. The Book of Colour Concepts. Cologne: Taschen, ISBN-13: 978-3836595650. (English, French, German & Spanish) 846 pages.
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New book: Mary Gartside c.1755-1819 Abstract Visions of Colour, by Alexandra Loske
First study on the work of Mary Gartside, an English artist, teacher and botanist whose innovative approach to the illustration of colour theory was largely overlooked until the emergence
of abstract art in the mid-twentieth century.
LOSKE, Alexandra. 2024. Mary Gartside c.1755-1819 Abstract Visions of Colour. London: Thomas Heneage, ISBN: 978-19136445649. (English). 56 pages.
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Other books on colour published in 2023
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