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SDC Launches Online Design Journal

Colour: Design & Creativity – official launch 30 October 2007

 

‘Gateway Grid’ by Victoria Watson from her article ‘A new colour form’ which appears in the inaugural issue of Colour: Design & Creativity from the SDC.

Colour: Design & Creativity, the new online journal from the Society of Dyers and Colourists (SDC), is intended to serve a gap in the marketplace by appealing to a multidisciplinary audience seeking a better understanding of colour and its application in design, theory and practice. In particular the journal will emphasise the synergy between colour and design, as opposed to their individual importance.

Comments editor, Prof. Stephen Westland, ‘Although design is for convenience recognised as a discrete discipline, it is truly multidisciplinary, involving aspects of science, technology, art, crafts and business. Design represents one of the significant interfaces between art and science, and the journal will be dedicated to exploring this interface.’

Among the topics covered in the inaugural issue are colour and emotions, analysis of colours in branding, design concepts using thermochromic colour change, colour forecasting and preference in the fashion industry, and an article that describes what the author calls ‘a new colour form’.

The journal will appeal to colourists, designers, scientists, artists and other professionals alike and seeks submissions of research related to colour: from explanatory papers, case studies and essays, to reviews of books, events, collections and installations. Being published online, a key feature will be the inclusion of ‘galleries’ of work, as well as material in movie and audio format. All articles will undergo a process of peer review, managed by the editor and assisted by a body of international experts forming an advisory panel.

In the first instance, Colour: Design & Creativity will be open access, thanks to funding received from the Worshipful Company of Dyers, and can be found at the following website: www.colour-journal.org. We invite anyone active in colour research, development and application to submit material for subsequent issues, or to contact the editor.

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NOTE FOR EDITOR

Issue 1:
Colour: Design & Creativity (2007) 1 (1)
www.colour-journal.org/2007/1/071contents.htm

Galleries
-Uncertain Harmonies by K Laycock (UK)
-Sample 7 by recent graduates from the University of Huddersfield (UK)

Review
-Colour Harmony by S Westland, K Laycock, V Cheung & P Henry (UK)

Articles
-Facial Expressions, Colours and Basic Emotions by O da Pos (Italy) & P Green-Armytage (Australia)
-Chromatic Identity: Analysis of Colours in Branding by J L Caivano & M A López (Argentina)
-Forensic Intimacy: A Digital Exploration of ‘Non-Place’ by J Brogden (UK)
-Design Concepts Using Thermochromic Colour Change by R M Christie, S Robertson & S Taylor (UK)
-Colour, Preferences and Forecasting for the Fashion and Textile Industries by T D Cassidy (UK)
-Air Grid: A New Colour Form by V Watson (UK)
-Study of Colour Shifts in Various Daylights by M Hårleman (Sweden)
-The Significance of Colour for Room Character by M Hårleman, I-B Werner & M Billger (Sweden)

Members of the Editorial Panel:
Stephen Westland, University of Leeds, UK (editor)
Mark Bishop, Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK
Kenneth Burchett, University of Central Arkansas, USA
José Luis Caivano, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
Hilary Dalke, Kingston University, UK
Paul Green-Armytage, Curtin University of Technology, Australia
Nick Harkness, Nick Harkness Pty Ltd, Australia
Ken Hay, University of Leeds, UK
Clare Johnston, Royal College of Art, UK
Naz Kaya, Houston, USA
Julie King, De Montfort University, UK
Paul Lyons, Massey University, New Zealand
Lindsay MacDonald, University of the Arts London, UK
Barbara Martinson, University of Minnesota, USA
Judith Mottram, Nottingham Trent University, UK
Nilgün Camgöz Olguntürk, Bilkent University, Turkey
Roy Osborne, UK
Tetsuya Sato, Kyoto Institute of Technology, Japan
Verena M Schindler, Atelier Cler Etudes Chromatiques, France

For more information about this release contact the SDC press office.