International Colour Design Workshop

This world-famous colour workshop is always popular. During an intensive week, in Gripsholm, outside Stockholm, you will have a unique experience that you will be able to put into practice immediately. You will learn, among other things, about colour perception, colour interaction, colour and patterns, colour mixing, colour associations and feelings plus colour and light in a range of practical exercises. You will also work a lot on your own personal projects. The workshop is a residential course so that you can work even more extensively with colours.

 

The Summer Course started in the 1950's and became the breeding ground for Swedish colour research and the development of the NCS Colour System.
This course gathers people from different branches and countries, both researchers and professionals. They all work with colours as a visual phenomenon but their different experiences and questions give the course its special and much appreciated character.

COURSE CONTENT

In the program, you will work with different aspects of colour perception, colour combinations, colour interaction, colour and patterns, colour analyses, colour mixing, colour phenomena, associations and feelings towards colours, colour memory. The course includes lectures and exercises both with gouache paints and with colour samples and at the end of the week you will work together or alone in a project concerning colours. You can either choose your own project or work on an assigned project. The course language is English.

The NCS Summer Workshop is a residential course, which gives the participants the opportunity to work very intensively with colour, and it seems to inspire the participants to work even harder to experience the world of colours.

Suitable for: All professionals working with colours as a visual phenomenon.