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NEW DATE! The Experience of Color

Start Date: 11/17/2009
End Date: 11/18/2009
Time: 1:00pm - 4:30pm
Location: Ottawa Room, Embassy West Hotel, 1400 Carling Avenue, Ottawa
Price: $200.00

Additional Information: Click here

Description

The Experience of Color


This is the last of 3 seminars offered on November 17th & 18th. Please see the linked PDF (above at 'Additional Information' ) for more information on this and the other 2 seminars offered, as well as the registration form.


Registration closes November 2nd. 3 Self-directed CEU's are offered with each seminar.


What this seminar will cover:


I. The art of colour application


1. Use of colour changes to add visual interest to buildings


2. Architectural colour detail


3. Colour fads, favourites, and flops


4. Space, volume and light


 


II. Colour use in architecture


1. Using colour in large areas


2. Use of colour as point-of-interest or way-finding


3. Examples of effective colour use in architecture


 


III.Colour and architecture


1. Using colour to visually communicate function in public spaces (exteriors/interiors)


2. Structured colour solutions


3. Mixing a colour bridge of perceptual opposites

Bio

Cheryl Spina Dudley is an award-winning architectural colour designer with over 20 years
experience in the application of colour in spaces for public and private sector clients. She is an
IACC certified colour consultant and past president of the International Association of Color
Consultants, North America. In her thesis work she explored the application of light and colour
in specialized public environments as well as the development of functional and aesthetic colour
solutions for application in these environments. Cheryl has taught interior design fundamentals,
colour theory and application to various audiences. She is a registered member of the Interior
Designers of Canada, the Association of Registered Interior Designers of Ontario and the
International Association of Color Consultants/Designers. She is the director of a colour design
group that focuses on colour design education, consultation, materials and their application in
public spaces.
Lee Fargo earned a Ph.D. in experimental psychology from the University of California, San
Diego, (UCSD) in 1995. Her research involved human colour perception and specifically, colour
memory and categorical perception. She has published articles in colour journals with her
advisor, Dr. R.M. Boynton, a renowned colour vision scientist. Lee also completed a Masters
degree in Applied Design at the University of Minnesota in 1987. Her thesis work included art
pieces that explored simultaneous contrast and the development of strategies for designing colour
palettes. She has exhibited her work in several juried shows. She taught beginning and
advanced colour theory for 3 years in the Design Department at University of Minnesota and
taught colour vision and colour perception at UCSD for 15 years. Lee is a director of a colour
design school that focuses on the application of colour theory in the design process.

Contact Information

Name: Cheryl Dudley
Phone: 613.728.6653
Email: csdudley@rogers.com

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