Our mission is to make a positive contribution to the global color community by sharing evidence-based color design information and resources. With a focus on color theory, research and application relevant to applied design and design of the built environment, we support and color activations as well as color-related events, seminars, workshops and awards
Founded in 2017, Color Design Resources (formerly known as the Colour Collective Sydney) relocated to Muscle Shoals in 2023 and continues to have links with the International Color Association (AIC) and the Inter-Society Color Council (ISCC) through our co-founder Zena O'Connor.
Image: City of Westminster College, mural by Lothar Götz (2011).
Oct 1, 2024
We're excited to be presenting this online two-hour seminar that is so popular, we run it every couple of months! Open to everyone, the online start time is as follows:
1:30pm - Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Tuesday 22nd October
1pm -…
Aug 2, 2024
There’s been quite a few colors that went viral in the past - Millennial Pink, Barbie Pink, the Blue Glass Craze, Psychedelic colors in the 1960s are just a few - but none have captured the zeitgeist so thoroughly and…
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Jul 4, 2024
Maitland Erwin Graves (1902-1978) was born in New York city, the son of Maitland E. Graves and Josephine Cortes. A year after he was born, Graves’ father filed for bankruptcy due to a failed hotel development project and, after going…
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Mar 12, 2024
To celebrate International Color Day, we are excited to be participating in this online seminar - Colorful Landscape / Vibrant City.
Presented by the Environmental Color Design group of the International Color Association (AIC), the seminar details are as follows:
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Nov 28, 2023
We're excited to partner with the Aged Care Industry Association to present a series of seminars from March through to October 2024 plus we'll have more seminars announced soon.
Color Design for Aged Care and Dementia Care is a 2-hour…
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Nov 20, 2023
Here’s an interesting webinar from ISCC coming up on 23rd January 2024 - Exploring Dye Histories in Bold: Color from Test Tube to Textile.
The webinar coincides with the exhibition: BOLD: Color from Test Tube to Textile - which…
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Oct 26, 2023
The Encyclopedia of Color Science and Technology, edited by Renzo Shamey, has been updated and the 2023 issue is now available. This book is an invaluable source of information and the table of contents features 800 entries. We're chuffed…
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Aug 30, 2023
The September/October 2023 issue on Environmental Color Design in Color Research and Application features eighteen articles, all of which are fascinating and at the forefront of environmental color design research including:
Doreen Balabanoff – ‘Color, light, and birth space design:…
Jul 28, 2023
This simple color model illustration relates to Ewald Hering’s opponent color theory. However, a newly published research paper reviews the psychological and physiological evidence for Hering’s Opponent Colors Theory and concludes the theory is wrong.
According to Conway, Malik-Moraleda, &…
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Jun 15, 2023
We're excited to partner with Resene Paints and Building Design Queensland for this online seminar - Residential Color Strategies - presented by Dr Zena O'Connor.
Presentation overview - While hue is often thought to contribute to mood and ambience plus…
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May 28, 2023
Today is the 6th anniversary of our award-winning community project, which was timed to coincide with Vivid Sydney 2017. The project featured saturated colors in a simple pattern that mimicked the brightly-colored yacht sails on Sydney Harbour.
Research indicates that…
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Apr 24, 2023
Thousands of white paint colors exist and this huge array of whites can complicate color scheme specification. However, three key issues are important to consider and these can help simplify white paint color specification.
Firstly, what is the aim of…
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