member awards
SG ECD members Dr Anat Lechner and Dr Leslie Harrington win the ISCC 2024 Macbeth Award
The ISCC Macbeth Award is given for one or more recent outstanding contributions in the field of color. The 2024 Macbeth Award has been presented at this year's Annual Meeting of the Inter-Society Color Council (ISCC) to Leslie Harrington, PhD, and Professor Anat Lechner, PhD for their work on Huedata Inc., a state-of-the-art color data platform for industry and academic use. After a brief citation for the recipients, they gave a short presentation about their work. The ISCC Annual Meeting took place on Saturday, October 19, 2024, 3:00 pm. Our warmest congratulations!
AIC Student Paper Awards 2024
SG ECD member Lauren Nicole Gonçalves Duarte wins the 2nd Prize
Lauren Nicole Gonçalves Duarte (left) and Ass. Prof. Natalia Naoumova,
Architecture and Urbanism Department, Federal University of Pelotas, Brazil, in front of their poster on:
Color in the City: An Analysis of Chromatic Interventions in the Pavement of Urban Space
https://www.aic-color.org/award-student-paper
SG ECD member Dr Vien Cheung wins SDC Gold Medal 2024
Gold medal for commitment to colour research and education
Congratulations to Prof Vien Cheung, our JAIC Editor and AIC Past President, who was recently awarded the Gold Medal by the Society of Dyers and Colourists (SDC) - a leading educational organisation dedicated to advancing the science and technology of colour worldwide - for her commitment to publishing research in the field. Vien was recognised for her "prolonged and outstanding contributions to international colour research and education, and publication" as part of her more than 15 years of work establishing and managing a not-for-profit and fully open-access international colour journal. The journal was founded in 2007 as Colour: Design & Creativity and renamed Journal of the International Colour Association (JAIC) in 2012 after securing the AIC as a permanent publishing partner. In her capacity as Editor, Vien has always been at the centre of the publishing process and has led its development. To date, 34 volumes of the journal have been published and all of the more than 250 papers Vien has overseen are freely accessible.
https://www.aic-color.org/journal
In particular, see Volume 17 (2017) Special Issue on Colour and LightAIC Newsletter April 2024
https://www.aic-color.org/News-APR24
AIC CADE Award 2023
SG ECD honorary member Clino Trini Castelli (IT) wins the AIC CADE Award for Colour in Art, Design and Environment
Clino Trini Castelli, throughout his career, developed methodologies for color design. He used the concept of meta-design in environmental, product & industrial design by introducing tools such as CMF design & Design Primario. Among his main collaborations, we mention Cassina, Fiat, Lamborghini, Legrand, Louis Vuitton, Michelin, Olivetti, Somfy, and Vitra in Europe; AT&T, Herman Miller, Intek, Unisys, & 3M in the United States; Hitachi, Honda, JR-Nishi Nippon, Kyoei, Mitsubishi, Nakagawa Chemical, Toli, YKK Ap, & Itoki in Japan. He received prominent international awards in color & design: ADI Compasso d'Oro, IBD Gold Award, IF Product Design Gold Award, & Machine Design Awards. As a result of his research & professional activity, he has written over 190 publications in journals and books.
OPEN LETTER TO THE MEMBERS OF SG ECD – AIC 15 September 2021
Dear colleagues,
Thank you for welcoming me to your Study Group on Environmental Colour Design of the International Colour Association, I am very honored. This takes me back to about ten years ago, when I participated in the foundation of a working group for the new Landscape Commission of the City of Milan. It was a demanding three-year experience which, however, honed me in the art of judging projects for public space, where all kinds of lights, colors and materials are recurring aspects.
In my work I have dealt with the themes of color and environment, more than anything else through the design of products and meta-project tools for Contract Interiors. I believe I have contributed to consolidating the new destiny of color in industrial design, thanks to the inversion of the paradigm that saw color as a secondary attribute of form. Already for Galileo Galilei and John Locke, form was defined as a primary quality while color was secondary. A century ago, even Le Corbusier, wrote in his magazine L'Esprit Nouveau that form is preeminent and color is only one of his accessories. He further wrote that a color cannot be conceived as independent of the medium, and that color is always coordinated with form, while the reverse is not true.
Fifty years later, in the 1970s, when I started dealing with material design, I was lucky enough to immediately notice the epochal advent of additive color synthesis, while working with RGB technologies in Colorterminal IVI, a center I founded in Milan together with the Colorscape Group for urban planning. I realized that the principles of modernity no longer adhered to the new dynamics of the color project. This led me to the concept of No-Form of Reactive Surfaces and to conceive "design primario" (primary design), with its other intangible qualities such as light, sound, texture, smell, etc. The term "primary" (apart from the polemical intent) did not come from radical architecture but rather from my Milanese acquaintance in the 1960s with the American artists of Minimalism and Primary Structures.
Finally, ten years later, in the 1980s, I publicly declared that the ideal approach to design is to eliminate form altogether--- that form is necessary, but secondary. I published a manifesto in the architectural magazine Metropolis (1983) on the occasion of the presentation of the CMF design project for Herman Miller in New York, whereby the CMF concept is based on color, material and finishes. In this work I went beyond the old “intensive” concept of the “color card” to adhere to the new “extensive” vision of the “color matrix”, rich in logistical advantages and conceivable only through the meta-project. The colors of the matrices were finally conceived as immanent entities, as independent color notations that can adhere to any shape and whose application remains open and can easily be coordinated.
Another fifty years have passed since that turning point of the 1970s; and today, with the difficult beginning of the 2020s, we all feel that the extraordinary experience of modernity has come to an end, thus opening up to the vision of a fluctuating era: that of the “Great Transition” described by Kenneth Boulding (1964), an event I never imagined I could witness.
With my best regards,
Clino Trini Castelli
Clino Trini Castelli, No-Form Statement, Metropolis, 1983. © 2021 Courtesy ClinoArchives.Online
SG ECD member Dr Georges Roque wins the Prix Vitale et Arnold Blokh 2022
The Vitale and Arnold Blokh Prize was awarded to Georges Roque for his book La cochenille, de la teinture à la peinture. Une histoire matérielle de la couleur (Gallimard).
This prize, awarded by the National Institute of Art History (INHA) in Paris jointly with the Jean Blot Foundation, rewards the author of a work on Western art between the 17th and 20th centuries. It concerns works published in French in the year preceding the award. The choice is made on the proposal of the members of the scientific committee of this prize. It is now awarded every two years, alternating with the Jean Blot Literary Prize. Its creator, the writer Alexandre Blokh, known as Jean Blot, a great intellectual figure committed to the defence of freedom of expression, died in December 2019.
Georges Roque, a philosopher and art historian, is an honorary research director at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) and has been attached to the Centre de recherches sur les arts et le langage (EHESS) since his training. He is one of today's most important theorists of colour.
https://www.ehess.fr/fr/prix-et-distinctions/georges-roque-reçu-prix-arnold-et-vitale-blokh-pour-livre-cochenille-teinture
AIC Student Paper Awards 2022
SG ECD member Yulia Kovanova wins the 3rd Prize
Yulia Kovanova, University of Edinburgh (UK):
Chroma calls: Place attunement through colour intra-action in sculpture
SG ECD honorary member Dr José Luis Caivano wins the AMEXINC Award 2021
presented at the AMEXINC Second International Colour Congress and Fifth Mexican Colour Congress, online (Mexico City, Mexico)
Premio Mexicano del Color AMEXINC 2021
In recognition of Prof. Caivano's achievements in colour research at an international level and, in particular, for promoting colour research in Latin America.
SG ECD members win the Robert W. G. Hunt Poster Award presented at AIC 2021 online (Milan, Italy)
2nd prize
Márcia Hazin, João Pernão
Faculty of Architecture, University of Lisbon, Portugal
The NCS color notation as a guide to produce colours from traditional pigments in conservation: The case study of two painted ceilings from eighteenth-century churches in colonial Brasil
https://www.colour.org.uk/student-poster-awards-2021/
This year, poster submissions were changed to short oral presentations.
At the Laboratory of the National Historical and Artistic Heritage Institute of Brazil PhD student Márcia Hazin reproduces the colours measured in churches using a colorimeter. She is a Brazilian architect and historian working in the field of cultural heritage.
AIC CADE Award 2021
SG ECD honorary member Jean-Philippe Lenclos (FR) wins the AIC CADE Award for Colour in Art, Design and Environment
Photo: Martin Lenclos
Jean-Philippe Lenclos, honorary member of the AIC Study Group on Environmental Colour Design, is the 2021 recipient of the AIC Award for Colour in Art, Design and Environment (CADE). Our warmest congratulations Jean-Philippe!
The nomination of Jean-Philippe Lenclos war supported by pro colore - Swiss Association for Colour, APCor - Associação Portuguesa da Cor, and the Color Society of Russia.
Jean-Philippe Lenclos is a colour designer, visual artist, colour researcher, Professor Emeritus of the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs (EnsAD), and founder and former director of Atelier 3D Couleur in Paris. He was awarded the Ordre des Arts et Lettres as a Chevalier by Jacques Lang, the French Ministry of Culture for his significant contributions to the arts.
He developed a ground-breaking methodology that he called "The Geography of Colour" and has given invited lectures worldwide. His books have received numerous prizes and have been translated into several languages. His work has been exhibited in various countries, and 170 of his works are included in the Collection du Centre Pompidou in Paris.
Jean-Philippe Lenclos has inspired several generations through his example, excellency, and seminal contributions to the world of colour in urban planning and design, environmental colour design, architecture, industry, product design, art, research, and education.
Recently, Jean-Philippe Lenclos was a keynote speaker at RUcolor2020 and his paper, translated into Russian, is available on pages 68–83: The International Scientific Conference of the Color Society of Russia: Selected Papers. 2021, edited by Yulia A. Griber and Verena M. Schindler. Smolensk: Smolensk State University Press, ISBN 978-5-88018-660-0 (Russian, English). This volume also includes an appendix entitled "Books on Color" in English presenting two of Lenclos' most recent books: http://color-lab.org/files/283/bop_rucolor2020_with0.pdf
SG ECD member wins the Robert W. G. Hunt Poster Award presented at AIC 2020 online (Avignon, France)
2nd prize
Yulia Kovanova
Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
Colour out of Place: Extinction Explored through Art Practice
https://www.colour.org.uk/robert-wg-hunt-poster-awards-aic-2020/
SG ECD members win the Robert W. G. Hunt Poster Awards presented at AIC 2019 in Buenos Aires, Argentina
The three Robert W. G. Hunt Poster Awards were given to SG ECD members:
1st prize
Glenn McArthur
OCAD University, Toronto, Canada:
Local colour and patterns (essence of place)
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2nd prize
Yen-Ching Tseng, Yuh-Chang Wei, Monica Kuo, Ya-Ping Kuo, Wen-Guey Kuo
Chinese Culture University, Taipei, Taiwan:
A case study on environmental landscape color harmony via the Zhengbin Fishing Port color scheme
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3rd prize
Ana Torres-Barchino, Juan Serra-Lluch, Anna Delcampo-Carda
Universitat Politècnica de València, Grupo de Investigación del Color, Instituto de Restauración del Patrimonio, Valencia, Spain:
Chromatic applications in interior spaces for the elderly in the P. Borja Geriatric Center of the Fontilles Foundation
Further information
https://www.colour.org.uk/poster-and-grant-scheme-winners/
SG ECD member Dr Ana País Oliveira wins the 49 edition of the Rafael Zabaleta Award in 2019
Article: https://www.ideal.es/culturas/jaen/portuguesa-pais-oliveira-quesada-20190712211412-nt.htmlJournal article: https://www.diariojaen.es/cultura/tarde-de-reconocimiento-y-entrega-a-un-bello-arte-IF6124208?fbclid=IwAR27zB_FHtiOHCjOGrvk6LBiSo2ymsb1dN6IoZjaKf8_kCLp2M70yrSCQ9kAna Pais Oliveira: "I’m interested in an expanded field of painting, where new possibilities of interaction between painting and the architectonic space, through colour, are explored. [...] Colour entropy, reflected in the concepts of order, chaos, dynamics, flow, balance and composition inherent to chromatic relations, should be identified and used within the interaction and mutuality between pictorial and architectonic languages. In this process, there is the intention to create a dialogue between paintings with architectonic representations; pictorial objects with an architectonic dimension, like constructions that we can physically explore and contour; and painting made directly in architectonic space or exhibition room, where colour can determine the building’s impact in the surrounding area and work as a skin of the construction, taking on autonomy from its structure and functionality. It is a fundamental objective to explore, experiment and analyse the transformative potential of colour in these projects..." More "I have the privilege of doing what I like, painting and dancing..." More
AIC CADE Award 2019
SG ECD member Roy Osborne (GB) wins the AIC CADE Award for Colour in Art, Design and Environment
SG ECD member Roy Osborne, artist, author, and educator, has sustained a keen interest in colour practice and theory since studying art at Brighton, 1966–70.
He taught lithography at Brighton, Bradford, London, Watford and Sunderland. 1978–2008, he was part-time or visiting lecturer at 140 institutions in Britain and Ireland, in 60 in the USA, Canada, Australia and elsewhere, principally teaching aspects of colour theory but also design and art history.
His Lights and Pigments: Colour Principles for Artists (1980) was the first art book to bring together older art media (painting, printing, photography) with the newer (plastics, film, holography) and pigment colour-order systems with the CIE system.
At the Royal College of Art, he assisted Hans Brill in setting up a series of 10 colour symposia (1982-86), and contributed to a similar symposium, with Faber Birren, at Pratt Institute (Brooklyn, 1985).
Starting in the USA (1986-87), he devised practical colour courses based more on the theories of Klee than Albers, encouraging students to compose minor artworks rather than colour exercises.
In 1989 he curated a touring exhibition on colour in painting, from Sickert to Yuko Shiraishi, also featuring works by Sydney Harry (1912-91), who had previously toured the UK presenting talks on colour.
In 1994 he was awarded an MA (London) in Art and Design in Education, after which he was invited to publish a short summary of his thesis as Teaching Colour in Art: Colour-Form Preference.
He was an AIC committee member and editor of its Newsletter, 1994-97, and contributed to its symposia in Sydney, Cambridge, Gothenburg and Boston.
In 2004, he published a short manual, Color Influencing Form, first drafted in 1984, plus the first edition of a definitive colour bibliography, subsequently expanded as Books on Colour 1495-2015.
He contributed to half a dozen colour books by Don Pavey (2003-12), who reinforced his interest in historical colour publications and led to his translations of four of the earliest printed books on colour (1495-1535), recently brought together in a single volume, Renaissance Colour Symbolism (2019).
He also contributed chapters on the history of colour in art, science and education to Colour Design edited by Janet Best; first edition 2012; second edition 2017.
Since 1970 he has participated in 150 exhibitions, at home and abroad, and recently published a Catalogue Raisonné of paintings, 1968–2018. He is represented by the Lisa Norris Gallery in London.
Roy Osborne was a member of the Colour Group (1982-2008); he was twice chairman 1995-1997 and 2005–2007. He received its Turner Medal in 2003, presenting a talk on Antonio Telesio's Latin colour dictionary of 1528.
AIC Student Paper Awards 2018
SG ECD member Saara Pyykkö wins the 1st prize
Aalto University, Finland, with a paper entitled "The main elements of the colour design process of a new neighbourhood: The case Koivusaari in Helsinki"
First Prize goes to SG ECD member Saara Pyykkö (2nd right)
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AIC CADE Award 2017
SG EC member Dr Antal Nemcsics wins the AIC CADE Award for Colour in Art, Design and Environment
Prof. Dr. Antal Nemcsics, a member of the Study Group on Environmental Colour Design, in front of one of his paintings, Budapest, 2012. Photo: Verena M. Schindler
In 2017, the AIC CADE Award honoured the work of Antal Nemcsics (1927–2019), artist, researcher, colour scientist, and professor, with a PhD in architectural sciences and a D.Sc. in colour sciences. He was Chair of the Hungarian National Colour Committee during the period 1969–2015. He obtained the International Giorgione Award (Venice) and the International Award for Colour in Environmental Design (Stuttgart). He is author of the Coloroid System, conceived on harmony thresholds. His book Colour Dynamics. Environmental Colour Design (New York: Ellis Horwood, 1993) is used as a textbook in universities worldwide. He had more than 100 colour design realizations for buildings and interior spaces, including the colour design for the Ferenc Lizst Airport, the Metropolitan Railway, and the Castle District in Budapest... More
International WAN Award 2013
Winner is SG ECD member João Nuno Pernão PhD Professor | APCor-Portuguese Colour Association Founder Member | IACC-International Association of Colour Consultants Member | OA-Portuguese Architect Association | CIAUD-Research Centre for Architecture, Urbanism and Design
"Recently I developed a colour study for a school that won the International WAN Award".
Design Prize 2011
SG ECD members receive the Research Prize for Colour and Light: Ulrich Bachmann, Ralf Michel, Florian Bachmann, Marcus Pericin, Zürcher Hochschule der Künste, ZHdK Zurich University of the Arts
