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This Group has specifically been created to provide a Forum for Architectural and or Interior Design Professionals to discuss the fascinating world of Photorealistic Rendering, and the role it can play in securing design projects.
Corne Lourens
This study was done on open-plan offices, as well as COMBI-OFFICE. It seems that the individual and combi offices got the most possitive results, just because of their individuality where personal needs could be accomodated, and I take…
Phillip Newmarch
Your comment on working out what colours to use in offices, I want to explain the following..
You are bounded by an architectural design and a users needs. Not a very happy situation. Read my comments to Bridget, maybe there is some…
Willem Basson
I support you fully on your comment " you are concerned about the way that some self proclaimed "colour experts" are attempting to wrench away colour decisionmaking powers from architectrural practitioners and interior designers" You s…
Bridget, I would also like to hear if you worked on a pure feeling, and what did you take into consideration on deciding on colours.
The humane design approach will be testing the colour choice requirement, like;
1 What is the room to be used for?
2…
Phillip Newmarch
Some interesting points you made, I wonder if you realised that you were touching the core of colour. A lot for me to deal with now, I will touch it soon, just to confirm that I have taken note of your statements
I still have to rea…
Corne Lourens
You are of cause correct, colour design can be tought, but the person witk the natural feeling and gut feeling will always be able to design quicker and with more confidence. You should contact Lisa and let her introduce you to the NCS…
Gavin, I have never imported photos onto this group... I dont know how. Please explain to me how to go about, I have very supporting photos diagrams to help people undestand the influence of light on colour in different areas. Thanks
What is colour?
My discussions will not be a "how to do it"manual for any designer but an aid to support the designer.
The concept of colour, can be approached from different perspectives and different disciplines, such as the natural science, biolo…
Gavin, thanks for your reply, I appreciate it. Lets start over, what I am going to do now is start with answering thos questions I asked as well as the hospital one, for readers to react, view thei different opinions or their methods. This is in no…
Gavin, thanks for you somewhat personal response. Your words like "demeaning attitude is seriously tiresom" and " you believe that you have nothing to learn"and " well then maybe we are better off without your remarks" .and " I am superior to you an…
Gavin, are you not labelling colour as a science now with this diagram? However I like this new adition to colour perceiving explanation.... who else will value or understand this..... im interested because through scientific diagrams you can explai…
Willem Basson
allow me the following;
1 There is such things as " correct colours" or " correct colour schemes" I gave an explanation to Bridger why certain colours are used in operating rooms world wide(derived from science!) There are literally th…
GAVIN TONKS
May I give you some more info on your friend who is loosing her eyesight. I feel so sorry for her, because light is the essence of life and I sometimes wonder if we realise what vision means to us. But the dear Lord is good for those who…
Profile Information
- Built Industry Sector:
- Interior design services
- Profession:
- Colour Educator, designer & Paint Retailer
- Primary Work Focus:
- Humane Colour Design
- About Me / Us:
- 1 Honours degree research in the site allocation of businesses
2 Masters degree research in sosio-economic residential planning
3 Doctorate degree research in the process of residential orientation.
4 Natural Colour System course in Stockholm Sweden
5 Colour workshop School of Leksand Sweden
6 Colour & Paint Paint Quality Institute Philadelphia USA
7 Colour marketing Washington DC USA, Farrow & Ball UK, Sigma Kalon France/Paris, London
8 Attended the 9th Congress of the International Colour Association in Rochester NY, USA
9 Visited the Rochester Institute of Colour Technology and Munsell Color Laboratory, Rochester USA
10. Presented a paper on Colour marketing at the AIC International Congress in Cape Town
11 Qualified as an International Colour consultant/designer at the International Association of Colour Consultants in San Diego California USA in the following fields:
* Color-Environment-Human Reaction
* The Biological Effects of Light on Human beings
* Color in the Architectural Space/Offices, workstations, health care facilities, Industrial work environments, schhools, restaurants
* Color Harmony, Color Systems, Color marketing
12 First and only South African to be invited to exhibit a colour asignment at the 50th Internation Exhibition of the IAC in Geneve.
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- Contact Number:
- 0828942275
Comment Wall (9 comments)
- At 11:21am on March 9, 2010,
Brekkels Botha said… - Hi. Where do you normally get your wallpaper from? We are looking for artsy funky something. maybe illustrated.... thanks!
- At 2:13pm on September 25, 2009,
Gwen Gerber said… - The butterfly-shape beauty and therapeutic pillow now a South African manufactured product:
Over the past 10 years I have come to sincerely appreciate this product for its value in reducing the aging of the facial skin, neck ache and breathing problems.
This is not a product that will be mass produced, simply because it is extremely labour intensive and each is hand crafted to produce the desired quality. If all the cutting, gluing and sculpting is done before-hand, one person can produce two complete units per day and it will therefore always be an exclusive product.
Although these pillows fit in a standard pillow slip, each pillow is supplied with one fitted pillow slip which could be used as a pattern to have slips made in the desired colour and fabric as required by each customer.
These pillows are currently manufactured in China only with a landed cost per unit of R890. Now interior designers & decorators are able to purchase directly from point of manufacture at R560 per unit, leaving an ample margin for profit.
Warm Regards,
Gwen Gerber
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- At 8:39pm on August 27, 2009,
Keith Lurie said… - Hi, thanks for the advice, and I will definitely take you up on the offer for help. I am just pushing to get the tender drawings and spec out for tomorrow, then I'll have time to focus on colour
- At 10:05am on August 16, 2009,
Karyn Reynolds said… - Hi,
Yes I do still need help, I have been very busy with marketing and getting work in, but I still need to work on the articals, I will contact you when I get around to it!
Regards
Karyn
- At 5:18pm on August 4, 2009,
Willem Basson said… - Dear Van Aardt,
Thank you for your response.
Do I understand correctly: you have not actually visited the site I am referring to? For if you haven't, then you cannot really criticize. You suffer, it seems from a distinct bias against websites. I have learnt a lot there, and this one I must say is really quite exceptional - trust me. The author, Bruce McEvoy, happens to have a PhD in psychology and colour perception being (among other things) a thing of the mind, it follows that it will always be psychology. It may be other things as well (like physiology for instance, which Bruce happens to cover at length too), but psychology it will always be. I obtained a fine arts degree with formal colour training many years ago when the internet did not even exist so you need not fear that that my knowledge of it is limited to websites. I too have 30 years of experience behind me, working with colour from both a painter's and an architect's point of view, and have lectured on the subject at my institute. I may not know all there is too know, in fact you only have to visit Bruce McEvoy's site to realize you certainly do not know all there is to know. It is precicely because I have studied first hand the classic colour treatises of the past such as those by Goethe, Johannes and Joseph Albers to name but a few, that I am so impressed with this site. I have yet to come across a source more comprehensive, whether it is book form, a course or any other medium of communication. I know also know enough to be aware that a lot of snake oil gets sold by so called colour experts about the 'psychological effect of colour' on one's mood and so on, as if that is a universal given for all mankind, hardwired into our brains. The fact is that it varies strongly from culture to culture and from historical period to historical period and is subject to fashion.I suggest that you read up McEvoy on that too. It saddens me to hear how colleagues of mine paid thousands of rands for training courses where these kind of myths are disseminated.
I respect your experience, and I really mean it. One of the major points McEvoy makes is precisely that good colour sense actually is not born out of any scientific theory (which he ably demonstates to be pseudo science most of the time anyway), but out of painstakingly building up a reservoir of experience through first hand experimentation, trial and error in other words, of what works and what doesn't. Obviously you have gained your experience the only way one can actually gain it: the hard way, which bears out Clark's statement that it takes 20 years to train a good colourist and that is why I say I really respect you for it. However, even many an able colourist makes the mistake of thinking that there are some scientific laws behind there hard earned ability, the learning of which can act as a substitute for experience. That is simply not the case, and to find out why, you have to read McEvoy.
This is where I take issue with the article - I think is is misleads in creating the impression that you have to only quickly learn a few rules and voila!, you can call yourself a colour expert. The reality is that there are so many variables to consider such as the hue, the tonality of the colour, the proportion in relation to other colours, the surface texture, the effect of after images, the spreading effect, whether the colour areas are directly in contact with each other or not, the reflectance, the transparency or opacity, the light quality - the list goes on and on. McEvoy demonstrates that the medium that conveys the colour has a vital effect on one's perception of it. You need to TRAIN the eye in all these things and it only happens by trial and error I am afraid. And this statement is supported by colourists far more capable and famous than you or I - Joseph Albers for instance. Admittedly there are broad guidelines such as the concept of colour temperature and complementaries for instance but that is usually only of the most rudimentary order. What McEvoy demonstrates so ably is how things become unstuck when you ask 'Scientifically speaking: what is the precise complementary of colour X, and how do you determine it?' That is when you realize precisely how woolly most experts' (myself included) thinking really are and to what extent it is all a matter of gut feel.
Actually all this is very good news for you and me. It means computers won't be able to take over our jobs in the very near future. :-)
I hope I have adequately explained myself and you are welcome to have a friendly debate with me around the issue.
Regards,
Willem
- At 3:52pm on August 4, 2009,
Dr. Francis Mwape Ndilila said…
- An interesting name indeed
- At 3:52pm on August 4, 2009,
Dr. Francis Mwape Ndilila said…
- An interesting name indeed!
- At 6:14pm on July 18, 2009,
Sarah Calburn said… - Van Aardt du Preez ..... You have a great name, but an odd profile picture... tee hee. You seem to be having many argument all over the place! Let's have one too - Just not about colour, OK? Bring it on
- At 4:11pm on July 15, 2009,
Karyn Reynolds said…
- Hi Van Aardt and thank you for commenting on my blog, I do agree that colour has a very important role in any environment, however not as the foundation, the foundation is good sound and effective design, onto which the layers are added onto, and this includes colour. We need to ultimatley colour something (walls, furniture etc) that needs to be designed and placed correctly.
I did do extensive colour studies at design collage and I now how colours can effect us, and how to enhance or reduce the effect, as well as why some colours work well together and some dont. - Just another reason why we need to use Interior Designers!
I am writing a coulpe of articles on this subject and I will dedicate a section to colour, do you have some info to share with me that could be of benifit?
Karyn
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