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• March Colorful Connections

  • When
    06 Mar 2025
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    4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
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  Colorful Connections is an opportunity to gather informally with other members of ISCC for a little socializing, networking and learning from each other. Discussions are wide-ranging and depend on attendees, their current interests and past experience. Consider this the online version of coffee breaks and happy hours at a color conference. BYO coffee or beverage and join in the conversation! 

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• Fluorescent Fridays: Colour with a Purpose in Product Design

  • When
    21 Mar 2025
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    1:00 PM - 2:15 PM
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  WHO	University students and faculty
  WHEN	March 21, 2025, @ 1pm, US Eastern

  
  

  This event shines the spotlight on Gisela Monteiro and her design students Josué Neves and Pedro Lucas Viana from the Federal Fluminense University, Brazil.  They will explain how the “Colour with Purpose” workshop was conducted to validate the teaching material created based on the content formulated by the Colour Literacy Project.  This  includes the application of colour in drawings of real objects, such as furniture and clothing. The objective of this series of exercises is to empower students to use their knowledge of colour to justify their choices in projects, combining intuition and objectivity in the process. That is why the name is “Colour with Purpose.”
  

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  Gisela Costa Pinheiro Monteiro (above, center) D.SC. is an Associate Professor at the Department of Design and Technology at Fluminense Federal University (UFF) in Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where she teaches in the Industrial Design undergraduate programme. With an academic career entirely focused on design, she works in the fields of graphic and product design, with an emphasis on apparel production. She coordinates the "Colour Applied to Design" project at UFF, developed in partnership with Prof. Dr. Robert Hirschler, with the aim of implementing a course dedicated to teaching colour to designers. Bridging research and practice, she created Colorcria (2020), a tool designed to help designers justify their colour choices in collection projects.Josué Custódio Neves dos Santos (above left) is an undergraduate student in Industrial Design at the Fluminense Federal University (UFF) in Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.  Josué is part of an extension project focused on bringing modern colour studies into the field of design at his university. His interest in colour stems from his passion for art, having worked as a freelance illustrator and graphic designer.

  Pedro Lucas Viana Braga (above right) is an Industrial Design student at UFF in Rio de Janeiro. Focused on teaching and art direction, he is currently working as a design assistant, gaining practical experience in the field. His goal is to become a design lecturer, contributing to the academic development of future designers.

  
  

  FLUORESCENT FRIDAYS is a platform for university students from all disciplines to network with color professionals and fellow students, and to explore cutting-edge information about color’s role in our lives and applications in the world. 

  Global Student Chapter: The long range goal is to build a global student chapter that positions color as a multidimensional STEAM model (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Math), sharing up-to-date color research by scientists, artists, designers, industry professionals, and university students.21st century color communication requires a commitment to building bridges for sharing resources, cultivating mentors, and creating new opportunities. With up-to-date information and useful tools, students become the next generation of leaders in ever-evolving color related disciplines.

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• ISCC Webinar - John Wiens presents How life became colorful: the evolution of conspicuous colors (and their functions) in plants and animals

  • When
    15 Apr 2025
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    2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
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    virtual

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  How life became colorful: the evolution of conspicuous colors (and their
  functions) in plants and animals

  In this talk, I will discuss recent work by my collaborators and myself on the evolution of colors in animals and plants. Plants and animals are often adorned with potentially conspicuous colours (e.g. red, yellow, orange, blue, purple). These include the dazzling colours of fruits and flowers, the brilliant warning colours of frogs, snakes, and invertebrates, and the spectacular sexually selected colours of insects, fish, birds, and lizards. Such signals are often thought to evolve by utilizing pre-existing sensitivities in the receiver’s visual systems (e.g. sexually selected coloration evolved to utilize sensitivities to brightly colored fruit). This raises the question: what was the initial function of conspicuous colouration and colour vision? Here, we review the origins of colour vision, fruit, flowers, and aposematic and sexually selected colouration, and when each one evolved. We find that aposematic colouration is widely distributed across animals but relatively young, evolving only in the last ~150 million years (Myr). Sexually selected colouration in animals appears to be confined to arthropods and chordates, and is also relatively young (generally <100 Myr). Colourful flowers likely evolved ~200 million years ago (Mya), whereas colourful fruits/seeds likely evolved ~300 Mya. Colour vision (sensu lato) appears to be substantially older, and likely originated ~400–500 Mya in both arthropods and chordates. Thus, colour vision may have evolved long before extant lineages with fruit, flowers, aposematism, and sexual colour signals.  We also find that there appears to have been an explosion of colour within the last ~100 Myr, including >200 origins of aposematic colouration across nine animal phyla and >200 origins of sexually selected colouration among arthropods and chordates.

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  John J. Wiens is a Professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Arizona.  Prior to coming to Arizona in 2013, he was an Associate Professor and Assistant Professor at Stony Brook University in New York (2003–2012).  Before that he was a curator of herpetology at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh (1995–2002).  He obtained his Ph.D. at the University of Texas at Austin (1995), and his B.S. degree at the University of Kansas (1991).  He has served as an Associate Editor for several journals in ecology and evolution (e.g. American Naturalist, Ecography, Ecology Letters, Evolution, Systematic Biology) and as Editor-in-Chief of the Quarterly Review of Biology.  He is an ISI Highly Cited Researcher and a winner of the President’s Award of the American Society of Naturalists.  He has published >250 scientific papers.  He studies many questions in ecology and evolutionary biology, and especially the origins of biodiversity patterns and the impacts of climate change.  He is also interested in phylogeny, speciation, sexual selection, niche evolution, and the biology of reptiles and amphibians.  He has been interested in the evolution of conspicuous colors in animals for many years.

  
  

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