Colour In The News

About every two years the Colour Group awards its Newton Medal to a distinguished worker in the field of colour science, on the occasion of his or her delivery of The Newton Lecture. This year the Newton Lecture and Medal will be presented This year...

Is yellow the colour of the next few months for everything from wallpaper to fashion?  The Queen set the scene but Mrs Trump in London (December) follwed at Buck House - doubtless a compliment to Her Majesty's wardrobe....

Robert W G Hunt Poster Awards 2019   Local colour and patterns (essence of place) Glenn McArthur OCAD University, Toronto, Canada Presented at the AIC2019, Buenos Aires, Argentina Abstract This is a pedagogical project for first-year OCAD University design students with the objective of exposing them to the concept that every...

The challenges of assessing acquired loss of colour vision Date & Time: 14.00 hrs, Wednesday 5 December 2018 Venue: City University...

The latest stab at a more 'intense' blue has been made by scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in northern California, working with artist Olga Alexopoulou and color researcher Maria Chatzidakis. They have made strides towards developing a new, high-tech pigment dubbed "Quantum Blue."Check it...

As the photo shows, the change to autumn colours in the eastern states of the USA is delayed this year.  Indeed on average the change has been becoming later year by year. Why?  Is it something to do with climate change? Read about it at the...

  In a study published in Nature Chemical Biology, MIT researchers manipulated E coli genes so that they respond when illuminated by red, green, or blue light they fluoresce red, green or blue. So a coloured image projected onto a bacterial mat causes the bacteria to emit red, green...