Colour conveys confidence. This is exactly what many of the competitors in the Australian Open 2016 know when it comes to on-court fashion. Suzanne Carbone wrote about this phenomenon recently in an article: ‘Australian Open 2016: Players serve up bold…
Colour + Children + Imagination = PLAY[ground], a collaborative effort involving HASSELL architects, Archikidz and Sydney Living Museums. A temporary three-day installation, insights from this project will be used to inform future strategies for public engagement. ‘Playability’ is seen as…
I was delighted to be asked to be a contributor to a new colour encyclopedia. The prestigious ‘Encyclopedia of Color Science and Technology’, edited by Ronnier Luo, is being published by Springer, New York in 2017. The chapters I…
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…
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…