This project for Mirvac at Broadway in Sydney involved developing new façade colour scheme options for an iconic building. Consideration was given to the following key aims and issues of the project, including: All colour scheme options used historicism as…
Building Design Queensland and Resene are hosting this one hour online CPD session presented by Zena O’Connor that focuses on the issue of specified vs perceived colour in the built environment – 9 February 2023. In the built environment, colour…
The article, ‘Traditional colour theory in design context: A focus on value’ was published in the Journal of the International Colour Association, Issue 32, pp29-43 – January 2023. Tonal value plays a key role in applied design and design of…
I was honoured to be appointed to the scientific committee for AIC 2023, the annual conference of the International Colour Association to be held in Chiang Rai, Thailand, 28th November to 2nd December 2023. I have presented at six AIC…
Radio interview ABC Radio – Dr Zena O’Connor, 1 December 2022 Over the last decades, many articles have focussed on the idea of using colour as a visual deterrent for cigarette smoking. Aside from printing slogans such as ‘Smoking Kills’…
For the past couple of years and in conjunction with the Colour Collective Sydney, I’ve sponsored five colour awards at the annual Design Centre Enmore Graduate event. As a designer by training, it gives me great pleasure to be able…
AddOn is a satellite exhibition of HeadOn, a large-scale, multi-venue photography exhibition in Sydney Australia. Curated by Charles McKean and Moshe Rosenveig (founder, creative director and lead curator of Head On Photo Festival), this satellite exhibition features the tagline ‘No…
Published in the September issue of Mindfood, thanks are due to the author of the article, ‘Psychology of colour’, Rebecca Douglas, for veering away from the usual colour psychology claims found on the internet. Many of these claims are not…
This was a delightful project to work on mainly due to the client who had a clear brief for the colour scheme of the large house on Sydney’s North Shore. The goals of this project revolved around minimizing the visual…
Prior to developing facade colour recommendations that will be visually cohesive, it is important to conduct a site analysis of the property to determine fixed facade colours and variable facade colours. This step involves identifying all the colours of all…
