Colour News October 2024
Colour related news and events
What is it like to be a colour and trend forecaster? Let's ask Anna Maria Nyk, a colour and trend forecaster of Studio Nyk Colour & Design.
In the following video, she explains what it means to be a colour and trend forecaster and gives some examples of where her information comes from.
Are you interested in learning how to develop a colour forecast and understanding the research process behind it? Would you like to gain insight into the colour trends for 2026 and beyond?
We invite you for a 1-day workshop about Colour Forecast Research 2026+ held in Borne, the Netherlands, in cooperation with ICA Belgium and Studio Nyk Colour & Design. This exclusive workshop is taking place at the studio of a colour trend forecaster Anna Maria Nyk on Saturday, October 12, 2024, and includes an optional studio tour on October 11.
Through the studio tour you will get a view into the Nyk colour kitchen: colour communication tools, the extensive colour (fabric) archive and the physical trendbook. The tour is free and open to workshop participants.
1 DAY WORKSHOP
Date: Saturday 12 October 2024
Location: Studio Nyk Colour & Design / Borne, the Netherlands
Price: €375 per person (lunch included).
ICA-B, AiNB members: €275 (lunch included).
Become ICA-Belgium member here.
For: designers, product managers, teachers, stylists… from various working fields (fashion, interior, architecture, education)
The last date to register: October 6, 2024
Find more information about the workshop and the Program here.
*Participants will be asked to complete an assignment prior to the workshop. This task requires at least half a day’s work and should result in a presentation. Details of this exercise will be communicated to participants after registration. Deadline for uploading the presentation is October 9.
In this short video series created by Joanna van Gent, ICA-Belgium followed the five main steps of Anna Maria Nyk’s colour and trend research process.
Joanna, thank you for the last 2 months!
If you would like to volunteer for ICA-Belgium, please get in touch with us at ica@ica-belgium.org and let us know more about you and how you think you could contribute to ICA-Belgium. We are a nonprofit organisation, run entirely by volunteers, always looking for ways to grow, develop and connect.
SAVE THE DATE
24 November 2024: online Sunday morning Colour Talk with Ingrid Calvo Ivanovic
More details and registration are coming soon.
NEWS
The Book of Colours (Das Farbenbuch) with Dr Juraj Lipscher
10 October 2024, 6:00 PM, AEDT
Online over Zoom
by Colour Society of Australia
This free webinar will be a presentation by Dr Juraj Lipscher, co-author of the magnificent German book on pigments and dyes, Das Farbenbuch.
Das Farbenbuch by Juraj Lipscher, Stefan Muntwyler and Hanspeter Schneider is a remarkable book of 496 pages illustrating 367 pigments and dyes and also containing 17 pigment analyses of paintings, a timeline for the historical use of pigments,19 extensive and richly illustrated color stories, and a glossary and pigment index.
For his webinar, Juraj Lipscher will discuss the motivation and main tenets of the book with a short overview of its contents centered around the interface between science and art. He will show examples from the compendium of pigments and dyes featuring handmade painted swatches, photographs of the coloring agents, and examples of paintings where the pigments were prominently used.
Further on, he will present pigment analyses of paintings from all historical periods and examples of longer stories about an important coloring agent or an important colour. In the second part of the talk, he will explain the reasons for developing a proprietary 18-colours printing process for the book, discuss its technical aspects, and compare the results with the conventional 4-colours printing process.
CALL FOR ENTRY: Color Impact 2025 Color Exhibition
Deadline: January 15, 2025
by Inter-Society Color Council
How does color affect how we communicate? What perspectives and experiences are evoked through color? Can color shift and re-frame our viewpoints?
This exhibition explores the role of color in communication in the arts, design, sciences, and humanities, and the way color can be used to shift our perspectives.
We invite submissions from all creatives at all levels, in all media: artists, scientists, designers, students, faculty, industry professionals, and anyone interested in creatively expressing color through physical and digital materials – all are welcome.
The Online Exhibit will be presented at the Color Impact 2025 conference and available on the website.
More information can be found here.
See the entire 2023 exhibit:
As a nonprofit organisation, run entirely by volunteers and on a very limited budget, we are counting on you to help us continue offering free online Colour Talks, colour related information and accessible colour related events and education. Consider to either become an ICA-Belgium member, or a paid newsletter subscriber. You can also buy ICA a coffee.
