Colour: Design & Creativity - new issue

Colour: Design & Creativity - the online design journal from the SDC - addresses all aspects of colour and design, in art, environment, textiles, architecture, fashion, etc. It was launched at the end of last year and issue 1 received much encouraging feedback:
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* What an excellent range of material.

* Excellent articles and presentation.
* Inspiring and promising...
* Very good work. It will help me in my work as designer.
* This is a wonderful journal.

* Excellent scholarly articles full of insight and intelligent discussion. Great work.

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This journal for the professional and academic design community aims to create a forum for professionals from a diverse range of disciplines in which colour plays an important role, one where they can come together to exchange knowledge and ideas, and begin to develop a common language to facilitate communication in the fascinating world of colour.

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The next issue will be published at the end of May and will contain a rich mix of content, including a gallery of work by artist Jennifer Durant and articles focusing on colour in architecture. If you would like to receive advance notification about forthcoming issues, as well as news about the journal, please sign up for an alert here.

www.colour-journal.org

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by CMcN

New photo galleries published!

New photo galleries have now been published on the SDC website relating to the colour design competition - shots from the awards dinner, the grand final and the regional heats, along with the finalists' designs, can all be viewed here. Shots from the rest of the Day of Celebration will be added to a separate gallery soon.

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by CMcN

Link between science and design

During the recent Day of Celebration, the guest speaker
Ann Priest - the dean of the School of Art & Design at Nottingham Trent University (pictured above at the awards dinner) - spoke of the need for greater links between scientists and designers. Which is precisely what the SDC is striving for - be it through education, training or technology of colour.

Recognising that different people have different aspirations, the SDC offers a range of qualifications designed to reflect age, experience and previous education. Anyone wishing to enhance their colour knowledge and career now has a new option to consider, with the launch of the SDC Diploma in Colour Management of Textiles. More details coming soon!
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by CMcN

SDC at Graduate Fashion Week 2008

We are pleased to be once again sponsoring an award at Graduate Fashion Week, which takes place in London in exactly one months time (Sun 8 to Thurs 12 June). The
SDC Colour & Textiles Award promotes the imaginative and exciting use of colour in printed or constructed textiles and is open to students (on both fashion and textiles courses) from colleges exhibiting at GFW - we wish all the students taking part the best of luck!

Judging of the portfolios will take place on the Tuesday and the winner will be announced at the glittering Gala Show on Wednesday evening. The SDC judge will be Chris Sargeant (SDC vice-president fashion/design), and we found out this week that the co-judge for our award this year will be David Saunders (aka David David), which we are very excited about! David's trademark is his kaleidoscopic vivid prints - as seen on his recent collaboration for Fred Perry's 'Blank Canvas' project.

More on our plans for Graduate Fashion Week coming soon!
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by CMcN

Colour design competition 2008 - grand final

The final of the SDC global design competition took place in Bradford just over a week ago - and what an inspirational event that was! At the awards dinner on the 'Day of Celebration', the winner was announced as Danielle Lewis from Colchester Institute (pictured). This dinner was a colourful culmination of two days that the 13 finalists had spent with each other and with the SDC in Bradford.

We will be detailing elsewhere more about how each of the students - all winners of their regional heats - made it through to the grand final, but for now we wanted to share their designs with you!

UK (London Region): Danielle Lewis

Colchester Institute

'Get behind me Satan'

AUSTRALIA: Erin Grant

St George TAFE School of Fashion, Sydney

'Birds of paradise'

UK (Scottish Region): Lynsey Henderson

Edinburgh College of Art

'The multi-coloured world of Prokievs'

HONG KONG: Yau Yim-Fun (Natalie)

Hong Kong Polytechnic University

'Dissolve'

INDIA: Neha Aneja

Pearl Academy of Fashion

'Natural beauty'

SOUTH AFRICA: Chantelle Bekker

Tshwane University of Technology

'Urban nature'

UK (N Ireland Region): Lyndsey Bell

University of Ulster

'Eastern aura'

PAKISTAN: Sana Sami

Faisalabad Institute of Textile and Fashion Design

'Ethnic modernity'

UK (N England Region): Laura Reid

University of Huddersfield

'Back in Black'

SRI LANKA: R P E Bandara

University of Moratuwa

'Rhythmic rough'

UK (Midlands Region): Emily Scholes

Nottingham Trent University

'Moments of colour'

USA: Casey Bianco

Virginia Commonwealth University

'Natural beauty'

UK (W England / S Wales Region): Anna Wilkinson

Winchester School of Art

'Son Mélange Délabré'

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Thanks to all the students for being so brilliant - and to the judges too! Talking of which, let's have one closing shot . . .

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by CMcN

Welcome . . .

. . . to this, the first post of the all-new SDC colour blog -
a blog which is destined to be a place to cogitate about colour and to share news, stories and ideas about all aspects of colour.

Such a blog has been on the cards for some time now but we were finally inspired to get this up and running thanks to Sue Williams. Sue is the new president of the SDC and since she took office - just over one week ago - during a true 'Day of Celebration' (more of that in subsequent posts) - she has been keeping her own blog. And we wanted one too. So here it is!

Who will read this blog? We hope all users of our other websites - such as ColourClick and the recent online design journal Colour: Design & Creativity - as well as all the students and staff at our many patron colleges around the world. Basically, we hope, just about anyone interested in colour.
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by CMcN