Colour Science

Colour perception changes under different lighting, making matching a challenge. Understanding metamerism helps designers ensure consistency across materials, pigments and digital displays.

We cannot have colour without light. Here, we look into the technical aspects of working with colour in different artificial lights and asks the question, how does lighting affect our perception?

Many of the most intense and brilliant colours are produced by synthetic dyes that cause considerable environmental damage. This clearly has to change, but can nature feed the consumer demand for mood-boosting, dopamine brights?

As we continue to strive for a more circular economy in the design world, could nature hold the answer to sustainable alternatives for pigments and dyes when considering colour application? Here, we discuss the natural phenomenon of structural colour and a biomimetic approach to design.

The role that tangible material properties play when layering is a useful tool for creatives to explore the illusion of spatial depth and transparency through colour relationships. In this essay, we discuss how the intermingling of colours can be applied to create layers within design.