Light encourages engagement and improves perceptions of safety. Impulse is a public art installation in the Place Des Festivals, Montreal, that illustrates the positive impact of light. Thirty illuminated see-saws along with a series of video projections on nearby buildings have…
I’m very chuffed that the Most Accessed list for the journal Color Research and Application includes two of my papers. These two papers top the list for June 2015 and the year 07/2015 to 06/2016. I’m hoping that its only a…
Launched in March 2017, @colour.design.palettes on Instagram explores the ways in which colour strategies are applied in design and the colour palettes of prominent design styles and designers. Check out @colour.design.palettes on Instagram. Colour, tonal value and saturation are dimensions…
The main focus of this six-part Advanced Colour course is colour scheme development strategies that acknowledge aesthetics plus the ways in which colour and contrast can achieve specific outcomes in residential, commercial, hospitality, healthcare and aged care contexts. Colour has…
This Colour Psychology seminar was initially presented to the Colour Society of Australia on 12 August 2015. The seminar examined the diverse origins as well as evidence and applications of colour psychology in applied design and the built environment. Spanning from…
I was invited to dicuss evidence-based colour psychology on The Daily Edition, Channel 7, on 2 July 2015. The Daily Edition is hosted by Sally Obermeder and Tom Williams. In this discussion, I focused on evidence-based colour strategies and…
I was asked to contribute evidence-based information about colour in aircraft design for this article. The article appear in a trade journal for the aircraft industry. ‘Design Psychology’ explored the various design factors that contribute to passenger satisfaction including colour…
New York-based journal Color Research and Application published my peer-reviewed paper: ‘Colour, contrast and Gestalt theories of perception: The impact in contemporary visual communications design’. Color Research and Application, 40 (1), pp85-92. The paper explores the key roles that colour…
Colour as Code: Obscure Dialect or Lingua Franca? This is the title of one of two chapters I contributed to a recently published book. ‘Researching the visual: Demystifying ‘the picture that worth a thousand words’ was edited by Arianne Rourke and Vaughn…
Elements and Principles of Design: Tools to Identify, Analyse and Evaluate the Visual. This is the title of one of two chapters I contributed to a recently published book. ‘Researching the visual: Demystifying ‘the picture that worth a thousand words’ was…
