Today is the 6th anniversary of our award-winning community project, which was timed to coincide with Vivid Sydney 2017. The project featured saturated colors in a simple pattern that mimicked the brightly-colored yacht sails on Sydney Harbour. Research indicates that…
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…
The corridors on each level of this multi-storey apartment building are relatively long with grey carpet and white walls. Currently, the length of the corridors and bland white and grey scheme conveys an institutional impression. In addition, the lack of…
I was chuffed to be asked to speak at this conference in Oslo, Norway! Fargedagen translates to Colour Day and the conference focuses on colour in the built environment. Hosted by Heidi Pettersvold Nygaard and the Oslo Planning and Building…
This meeting report focused on papers presented at the AIC Study Group on Environmental Colour Design at the International Colour Association conference in 2021. My paper focused on variations between specified colour and perceived colour: ‘Specified colour vs. perceived colour:…
Proud to have another peer-reviewed research paper published in the leading journal on colour: Color Research and Application. ‘Traditional colour theory: A review’ is a paper that was prompted by David Briggs, president of the Colour Society of Australia, who…
Proud to have contributed a book chapter to ‘A Cultural History of Color’ (February, 2021). Several years in the making, the six-volume set is published by Bloomsbury, London, and my chapter is ‘Color, Power & Identity’ in the ‘Modern Age’…
2021 got off to a great start with two peer-reviewed articles scheduled for publication in the leading journal on colour: Color Research and Application. ‘Tactical Urbanism: Colour interventions with purpose’ was a paper initially presented at AIC2020 – the annual…
In 2020, I designed the logo for 2120 Music Management, a business wholly owned by RZL Partners. The design featured a detail from a Resonator guitar owned by Americana singer/songwriter Lucie Tiger. Initially established in Sydney, 2120 Music is named…
