NCS Colour continues to strengthen its global presence as part of our mission to support professional colour use and knowledge worldwide. On the booming Chinese market a new NCS Colour office has recently been established in Guangzhou. Besides, an ambitious collaboration is introduced with two prominent Chinese universities: Tongji University in Shanghai and Tsinghua University in Beijing.
In Shanghai a high level colour education for students, teachers and professionals has been introduced. A special colour research programme is also planned for the future. The university registers over 50,000 students participating in education on different levels; from certificate courses to PhD programmes and post-doctoral attachments. Our activities have started this month and in December the first 2-day colour course will be open for everyone to join; teachers, students, professionals and industry oriented people. In Bejing the first course "NCS in Colour Design" will take place in December. It will be carried out together with TASCII (Tsinghua Art & Science Colour & Image Institute) which is an independent Colour Support Centre. The course is an open workshop directed to professionals working with colour. It will be oriented towards colour subjects such as the construction of the Natural Colour System, how to work practically with NCS, how to describe and communicate colour, how to use NCS as tool and more.
Read more: DEC 1-2. 2011 BEIJING | DEC 4-5, 2011 SHANGHAI
DOSHI LEVIEN
Imagine a house in the urban context of Shanghai, Tokyo or an Indian city. The houses seem to be sewn together, different but still closely connected. It doesn't seem to be conscious design, almost as if the design has been authored by the people who live in it. These are the thoughts that inspired Nipa Doshi and Jonathan Levien, the young designer couple behind the successful London based design studio Doshi Levien, when creating the installation "Das Haus" for the
imm cologne 2012 trade fair in Germany. Using the Natural Colour System they have created the entire colour concept for their project. Their teamwork combines Indian and European, male and female and graphic and functional formal quality of design that has caught the attention of many, such as Tefal, Moroso and Cappellini to name a few.
HEIMTEXTIL TREND BOOK 2012/13
The trends for the coming season have been characterised by the far-reaching events over the past few years e.g. the nuclear catastrophe in Fukushima, the banking crisis and mass demonstrations. Colour is now in focus and powerful, fresh tones show an optimistic view of the world. Heimtextil is the largest international trade fair for home and office textiles. Acting as a trend barometer it also launched Heimtextil Trends, a team of seven international design studios formulating the most important tendencies for the coming season. Each year a different design studio, this year bora.herke.palmisano, collects the coming trends in the Trend Book, all colours with NCS Notations. The theme is MONTAGE and it is about mixing existing elements into something new, personal and individual that has not existed before.
THINK INSIDE THE BLOCK
NCS Block is a useful tool when working with colour selection, colour analysis and colour identification. All 1950 NCS Original are colours arranged into 'colour areas', sorted by hue or nuance. Nine fan decks are included where each sample can be fanned out to make it easy to try different colour combinations. It can be placed against different surfaces or isolated from other colours around it. The nuance classification is especially popular among those who work with patterns and contrasts. The large sample format 35 x 104 mm makes it a handy pocket-size tool that you can easily carry with you. NCS Block Nuance | NCS Block Hue
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