Colour News March 2025
Colour related news and events
Recording of a Colour Talk with Ingrid Calvo Ivanovic
On the 9th of February, our guest was Ingrid Calvo Ivanovic, a colour designer, professor and researcher at the Design Department of Universidad de Chile and Politecnico di Milano.
She spoke about her research on sustainable practices in colour design and called for a shift in how designers approach colour.
In case you missed the Colour Talk with Ingrid Calvo Ivanovic, you can now see the recording.
Ingrid spoke about the environmental effects of constantly changing colour trends, about her research on sustainable practices in colour design, a need for a shift in how designers approach colour and its significant impact on environmental issues, and its influence on consumer behaviour and social sustainability.
She showcased new, eco-friendly materials as well as pigments from upcycled industrial waste and collaborative projects that bring together science and art.
Thank you Ingrid for a very insightful and inspiring talk!
ICA-Belgium Annual Activity Report 2024
Our 2024 Annual Activity Report is here. Thank you to everyone who contributed! You can download it here.
Celebrating INTERNATIONAL COLOUR DAY: Walk & Talk / Meet & Learn in Brussels
Join us at our next ICA-Belgium’s Walk & Talk / Meet & Learn on the 23rd of March at 13h45 and let’s celebrate the International Colour Day together! We will be visiting the exhibition: Untold Stories – Women Designers in Belgium 1880-1980, guided by Javier Gimeno-Martinez, co-curator of the exhibition.
For further details see: https://www.ica-belgium.org/p/celebrating-international-colour
Let’s celebrate the International Colour Day by exploring this fascinating exhibition and meeting each other. There will be time to talk and share about the impressions, news, ideas…
See you on the 23rd of March!
INTERNATIONAL COLOUR DAY celebrations around the world
The Culture of Colour: Colour Spaces for All & Learning from the Global South
By Deutsches Farbenzentrum
21 March 2025, 20:00 CET, Online
You are warmly invited to join the German Colour Association, Deutsches Farbenzentrum, for an online talk on International Colour Day, Friday, 21 March 2025.
Prof. Esther Hagenlocher, Head of Department of Interior Architecture, College of Design, University of Oregon, USA, and our curator for colour and architecture, and Austrian master builder Cornelia Faißt, will give a lecture entitled Color Spaces for All and Learning from the Global South.
More information: https://pretix.eu/deutsches-farbenzentrum/CONNECTIONS-2/
Unmuted: Indigenous Colour Stories
By Colour Research Society of Canada
20 March 2025, 16:00 ET, Online
Celebrate Indigenous Voices on International Colour Day, as members of indigenous communities share their colour stories. With panellists: Coleen Garska, Jade Crabbe, Lisa Boivin & Presley Mills. Moderator: Erika Doehring-Lafferty.
More information: https://www.colourresearch.org/event-details-registration/unmuted-indigenous-colour-stories
International Colour Day Forum: The XRF Revolution in Painting Analysis and Painting Conservation
By Colour Society of Australia
21 March 2025, 19:00 AEDT, Online
By revealing all the chemical elements present in a painting, X-ray fluorescence (XRF) mapping can identify the individual pigments used by the painter and their exact locations, including those beneath the surface. Please join us online for our exciting International Colour Day 2025 event at 7 pm to 9 pm AEDT on Friday March 21, to be held in conjunction with the AIC Study Group in Arts and Design (SGAD) as the first of their new series of online forums on art and design topics. Three painting conservators, Simon Ives (Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney), Marieke Gerken (Bruker Nano Analytics, Berlin) and Rika Pause (Boijmans van Beuningen Museum, Rotterdam) will speak on remarkable new insights provided by applying XRF and other non-invasive tools in the fields of painting analysis and painting conservation. The forum will be introduced by SGAD Chair Prof. Dr. Maria João Durão (University of Lisbon), and will conclude with a discussion of questions from the audience chaired by CSA Vice President and SGAD Co-chair Dr David Briggs.
More information: https://coloursociety.org.au/event-6094003
Colour & Poetry: A Symposium VII
By UCL Slade School of Fine Art
21 March 2025, 10:00 - 17:00, GMT, Online
This year's event, celebrating International Colour Day and World Poetry Day, on Friday 21 March, will take place at the Slade PhD studios. Kimberly Selvaggi, PhD researcher, will be hosting this online event.
Saturday 22 March 2025: The World Pigment Day event on Saturday 22 March, is in person (in London).
Nomenclature of Colours V: This online show, curated by Stephanie Nebbia, will go live on Friday 21 March.
More information: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/slade/events/colour-and-poetry-a-symposium-vii-20250321/
Fluorescent Fridays: Color with Purpose in Product Design
By Inter-Society Color Council
21 March 2025, 13:00 US Eastern, Online
This event shines the spotlight on Gisela Monteiro and her design students Josué Neves and Pedro Lucas Viana from the Federal Fluminense University, Brazil. They will explain how the “Colour with Purpose” workshop was conducted to validate the teaching material created based on the content formulated by the Colour Literacy Project. This includes the application of colour in drawings of real objects, such as furniture and clothing. The objective of this series of exercises is to empower students to use their knowledge of colour to justify their choices in projects, combining intuition and objectivity in the process.
More information: https://iscc.org/event-6095874
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