AIC NEWSLETTER - OCTOBER 2024
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AIC2025, 16th Congress of the AIC, “Color for Future”
The AIC2025, 16th Congress of the International Colour Association (AIC) will be held in Taipei, Taiwan from October 19 to 24, 2025. The theme is “Color for Future”, and all topics related to colour are welcome!
Venue: Songshan Cultural and Creative Park, Taipei
Organisers: Color Association of Taiwan (CAT)
Conference Chair: Prof. Tien-Rein Lee
Short abstract submission: from January 1st to March 31st, 2025
Notification of acceptance: June 1st, 2025
Full paper submission deadline: September 1st, 2025
For more information visit the conference website or contact the organizers by e-mail: color.org.tw@gmail.com | | |
The AlC2026 Midterm Meeting website is online
The Associazione Italiana Colore is excited to announce the launch of the official website for AlC2026, the Midterm Meeting set to take place in Florence, Italy. The site offers key details on the conference, scheduled events, and submission guidelines, providing a central hub for participants and attendees. Visit the site to stay updated and prepare for this significant event in the world of colour studies.
Visit: https://www.aic2026.org/ | | |
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The Sphere Award: Celebrating Outstanding Contributions to AIC
We are pleased to announce a new AIC award. The Sphere Award is one of AIC's highest honours, recognizing individuals, teams, or groups for their sustained and valuable contributions to AIC’s goals. Whether through organizational, clerical, technical, or other services, this award celebrates those who go above and beyond to benefit AIC and its members. Unlike other AIC awards, the Sphere Award highlights long-term dedication and lasting impact, acknowledging contributions that help drive AIC’s success. It reflects the core values of collaboration, innovation, and service that keep AIC thriving.
The first-ever Sphere Award will be presented at the AIC2025 Congress in Taipei, Taiwan, marking a historic moment for our community. Future awards will be presented every other year at the AIC congress.
The award committee comprises the two most recent Past Presidents and the latest Sphere Award recipient. Since this is the first year of the award, there is no current recipient. Therefore, for this inaugural award, the committee will include the three most recent Past Presidents.
Any AIC Regular member can nominate an individual/group/team through private email to the award committee - sphereaward@aic-color.org. Nominations must be received by January 19, 2025. A nomination for the Award should be supported by one document with the following information:
- A statement of what service or services have been performed that justifies receiving this award
- A statement outlining the nominee’s contributions, including committee participation if there were any, leading to the services performed for AIC.
Nominate someone today who has made a significant difference within our community!
If there are questions please email the Committee Chair.
AIC Sphere Award Committee
Chair: Leslie Harrington | | |
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Study Group on Colour Education (SGCE)
Colour Literacy Forum #9: "Colour through Time: Histories, Meanings, Practices"
Colour in Context Series - Part 3, Historical Contexts
Save the date: Friday, November 8, 11:00 am - 12:30 pm, US Eastern Time (via Zoom)
The Colour Literacy Forum is a (free) virtual platform featuring presentations and interactive conversations focused on updating and expanding 21st-century colour education at the post-secondary level. The Forums aim to connect educators, students, and the public with experts from diverse fields to share state-of-the-art research and resources.
Forum #9 talks and speakers:
- "Werner’s Nomenclature of Colours", by Patrick Baty (author, The Anatomy of Colour; Nature's Palette).
- "Lapis Lazuli and Some Meanings of a Blue", by Spike Bucklow (author, The Alchemy of Paint: Art, Science and Secrets from the Middle Ages - University of Cambridge, UK).
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"Why History Matters in Colour Education and Practice in Post-Compulsory HE", by Judith Mottram (Professor, Lancaster University, UK).
More information and registration: https://colourliteracy.org/
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Study Group on Environmental Colour Design (SG ECD)
Special Collection: Environmental Colour Design Research
Journal: Color Research and Application
Submit your paper now!
New articles published in 2024:
Katia Gasparini (2024) Urban Color Plan: The case study of the Ledro Valley (Italy). Color Res Appl. 2024; 1-17. doi:10.1002/col.22947
Esra Küçükkılıç Özcan, Kasım Çelik (2024): Environmental color analysis and facade color design in a street rehabilitation: Adana, Kayalıbağ. Color Res Appl. 2024; 49(5): 433-448. doi:10.1002/col.22926
Francesca Valan, Pietro Paglierani (2024): Connecting the new to the past: The Color-Material-Finish design approach applied to the Fortezza da Basso. Color Res Appl. 2024; 49(4): 384-400. doi:10.1002/col.22923
Further information: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1002/(ISSN)1520-6378.environmental-color |
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ark - Finnish Architectural Review 4/2024 (Finnish/English): COLOUR
This special issue on colour design includes the inspiring article “Short Syllabus in Colour Research” by SG ECD member, landscape architect and colour researcher Saara Pyykkö from Helsinki, Finland. This issue addresses the topic of colour from the perspective that colour has always been an intrinsic feature of architecture, which has its own long and manifold traditions independent of developments in the visual arts. This issue also contains four interviews with architect Suvi Tyynilä, architectural lighting designer Roope Siiroinen, professor of architectural practice Pentti Kareoja, and colour and materials designer Anni Rantasalo, as well as several projects along with other articles and reviews.
Read: https://www.ark.fi/en/2024/04/short-syllabus-in-colour-research/
Issue contents: https://www.ark.fi/en/2024/04/ |
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Australia - Colour Society of Australia
November Free Webinar
For our last webinar of the year, Dr Alexandra Loske will be presenting on her outstanding recent books "Colour Concepts 1686-1963" and "The Artist's Palette", as well as her research on women's contributions to colour history, at 8 pm AEDT on Tuesday, November 26; bookings will open on the CSA website 3 weeks before event.
More information: https://coloursociety.org.au/event-5881145
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Canada - Colour Research Society of Canada
Upcoming CRSC Events
Thursday, October 24, 7 pm ET: KALEIDOSCOPE LECTURE: Colour Vision Deficiencies in Hypoxic Environments byJeff Hovis, Optometry & Vision Science, University of Waterloo
Aircraft pilots in the United States are allowed to fly at altitudes up to 12,500 ft (3800 m) without supplemental oxygen. Previous research has shown that the colour vision of individuals with normal colour vision can be mildly affected near this altitude. Individuals with colour vision deficiencies are also allowed to hold a pilot’s license, but there is little information available related to how their colour discrimination changes in this environment.
This presentation will summarize the general characteristics of individuals with congenital colour vision deficiencies, how this mild hypoxic (or low oxygen) environment can affect basic colour vision discrimination, response times to coloured stimuli and the Stroop effect using coloured stimuli of individuals with normal colour vision and congenital colour vision defects. The presentation will also discuss a colour-related incident in a more extreme hypoxic environment.
Register here: https://www.colourresearch.org/event-details-registration/colour-vision-deficiencies-in-hypoxic-environments |
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Sweden - Swedish Colour Centre Foundation
Obituary: Gunnar Tonnquist has passed away at the age of 99 years old
Our renowned Colour Researcher Gunnar Tonnquist left us on July 30, 2024, in Solna, Sweden. He was born April 24, 1925, in China as a son of the Swedish missionaries Sven and Edit Tonnquist.
Gunnar Tonnquist was a physicist and Ass. Professor/Laborator at Swedish National Defence Research and Department of Physics, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm. Tonnquists’ main research interests include photography, colorimetry, colour vision and order systems. During the development of the NCS-system Gunnar was in charge of the research department working with questions related to colorimetry.
Gunnar Tonnquist was the chairman of the Swedish Colour Group (later on Swedish Colour Centre Foundation) from 1964 to 1975. 1965 an international committee was set up to prepare an International Colour Association in which Gunnar was strongly involved and contributed to the start of the International Colour Association, AIC, in Washington DC 1967. An interim Committee was elected with Gunnar as Vice-President with the task to arrange the 1st AIC Congress in 1969 This congress was held in Stockholm and Gunnar could welcome 478 delegates and 83 accompanying persons from 22 countries and a full AIC Executive Committee was elected. Since that time Gunnar has participated in many AIC meetings and has been a renowned and honoured member of the international colour research society. 1992 Gunnar Tonnquist delivered a speech “25 Years of Colour with the AIC – and 25 000 Without” at the AIC Silver Jubilee banquet in Princeton.
Since 1964 Gunnar Tonnquist, together with Anders Hård and Lars Sivik, was the research team that developed the Natural Colour System (NCS). The research was headed by Anders Hård and was completed in 1978. Gunnar invented a computer program COLOUR/INVERS that made it possible to accurately translate physical measured values into visual NCS notations and vice versa.
1997 at the AIC 8th Congress, Kyoto, Japan the three scientists were given the AIC Judd Award for their exceptional work which culminated in the NCS-system and its atlas. The research was characterized by the phenomenological analysis of the experience of colour in spirit of Hering.
Gunnar Tonnquist was also the chairman of the Swedish Standards Committee on colour notation. In the Commission International de l' Eclairage he was a member of the Technical Committee for Colorimetry and chairman of its subcommittee on Colour Terminology. Terminology.
We, Anders and Berit, started at the Scandinavian Colour Institute (now NCS Colour AB) 1990. Gunnar was always there for us, ready to explain whatever we had to ask him. He had such a great and solid knowledge of colour theory in many different aspects like physics, physiology, psychology and psychophysics. Gunnar was very respected in the international colour society. He was happy to introduce us, which has allowed us to take part in the international knowledge and research on colour.
Berit Bergström & Anders Nilsson
Swedish Colour Centre Foundation & NCS Colour AB |
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Switzerland - pro colore
Guided Tour of the Swiss National Museum
Date: Saturday, November 2, 2024, 11:00 am
Location: Landesmuseum Zürich, Museumstrasse 2, 8001 Zürich, Switzerland
Journey into the minds of Gustav Gull and Christ & Gantenbein, the architects of the museum building of 1898 and the extension completed in 2016. The museum’s collection shows the history of Switzerland from its beginnings to the present day and provides an insight into Swiss identity and the country's rich history and culture, with temporary exhibitions on current topics.
Further information: https://procolore.ch/treffs/museums-tag-landesmuseum/ |
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Two-day program in Lausanne
Date: Friday, November 15, and Saturday, November 16, 2024
Location: Lausanne, Switzerland
During a tour on the first day, interior designer Emmanuelle Diebold will present in detail two of her projects (CAD School and Restaurant L'Union in Epalinges, VD). On the second day, an exploration tour of the new Plateforme 10 art district is planned, which brings together on an esplanade the previously completed Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts (MCBA, with the largest collection of works by Félix Vallotton, 1865-1925) and the shared new home for Photo Elysée and the Mudac design museum.
Further information: https://procolore.ch/treffs/lausanne/ |
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90-minute Tour of the Blind Museum
Date: Saturday, November 23, 2024, 11:00 am
Location: Blindenmuseum «anders sehen», Höhenweg 10, 3052 Zollikofen
This unique national institution is an engaging place of learning that not only imparts knowledge but also offers sensory experiences and real-life scenarios. The aim is to sensitise people to the challenges that persons with blindness and visual impairments encounter in our society.
Further information: https://procolore.ch/treffs/museums-tag-blindenmuseum/ |
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AIC ASSOCIATE MEMBERS NEWS | | |
CIE - International Commission on Illumination
Call for Contributions – CIE Midterm Meeting Vienna 2025
The Call for Contributions for the CIE Midterm Meeting Vienna 2025 is now open! Submit your research by December 10, 2024, for a chance to present at the three-day Scientific Conference from 7 to 9 July 2025. Accepted papers will be included in the Proceedings of the CIE. Don’t miss this opportunity to connect with global experts. Early bird registration ends on May 1, 2025. Visit the CIE 2025 website for more details!
More information: https://vienna2025.cie.co.at/call-for-contributions/
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New book: Farbkultur und Handwerk in Schweizer Regionen. Culture de la couleur et artisanat régional en Suisse, by Haus der Farbe (Ed.)
The researchers at the Haus der Farbe Institute explored the colour culture and craftsmanship characteristics of Swiss regional architecture. The basics and the implementation of handcrafted colour design are illustrated and explained. The book opens with colour charts that reveal a wealth of typical colours and craftsmanship techniques found in Swiss cities and regions and can serve as a starting point for your design.
HAUS DER FARBE (Ed.), WENGER-DI GABRIELE Marcella, WETTSTEIN Stefanie, KEIST David, LAFFRANCHI Matteo. 2024. Farbkultur und Handwerk in Schweizer Regionen. Culture de la couleur et artisanat régional en Suisse. Zürich: Triest Verlag, ISBN 978-3-03863-082-1, (German/French) 190 pages.
More information: https://www.triest-verlag.ch/produkte/buch-26/architektur-139/farbkultur-und-handwerk-in-schweizer-regionen-3022
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