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The Color Council is the principal interdisciplinary society in the United States dedicated to advancing color research and best practices in industry, design/arts and education.

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Deadlines for our new Student Support Grant are May 15 and October 15, 2024! This grant is designed to assist undergraduate and graduate students with activities pertaining to color. Details and application forms here.

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ISCC Annual Meetiing

When
19 Oct 2024

2:30 PM - 4:30 PM

Location
virtual

Stay Informed!

Join us for our 2024 Annual Meeting. This is your chance to directly interact with the Board of Directors and you get important reports about the state of the council. This year, we will also be awarding the Macbeth Award to Leslie Harrington and Anat Lechner. After a brief citation for the recipients, they will present a lecture about their work

Other reports will include:

Treasurer

Colour Literacy Project

Visual Identity Project

We will post a link here soon. If you are a member you will also receive the link in email.

Following the formal proceedings, everyone is invited to stay online for our monthly Colorful Connections. This is an informal and fun discussion time that is usually open to members only. More info here.

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October Colorful Connections

When
19 Oct 2024

4:30 PM - 5:30 PM

Location
virtual

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40

Join us for a special edition of Colorful Connections immediately following our Annual General Meeting. Open to all, members and non-members, get to know your color colleagues in a lively online gathering. Registration is not required -- just stick around after the meeting. Hope to see you there!

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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Grow your color knowledge

Learn and connect with color professionals through our events, resources, and programs!

The Colour Literacy Project is an educational initiative to strengthen the bridge between art and science in 21st century colour education.

This project provides foundational, state-of-the-art resource within a STEAM framework. Teaching guides available for free download.

VISIT COLORLITERACY.ORG

Join students from all disciplines and network with color professionals. Discover state-of-the-art information about color in our lives and applications in the world. New episode every month. One-hour presentation on topics such as branding, architecture, paint, and more.

MORE ABOUT FLUORESCENT FRIDAYS

Consider this the online version of coffee breaks and happy hours at a color conference. BYO coffee or beverage and join in the conversation!

Socialize, network, and learn! Discussions are wide-ranging and depend on attendees, their current interests and past experience.

A deeper dive into a range of topics related to color.

BOLD: Color from Test Tube to Textile

Presented by Dr Elisabeth Berry Drago, Director of Visitor Engagement at the Science History Institute. Recorded January 23, 2024.

We are sharing this webinar to non-members for free. Visit this link and enter your name and email address.

A Look Inside Our Quarterly:

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Diffusion Material for Luminous Mosaic Images

In this editorial, Richard Travis presents a follow-up to his 2021 pair of articles about color education and additive color mixing, which also serves to remind us all to have a look at both of his preceding works.

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Blue Morphos Have a Cool Color

I first encountered the blue morpho in Kai Kupferschmidt’s book, Blue: In Search of Nature’s Rarest Color, which I reviewed in Issue 504 of ISCC News. There I learned about a tricky problem that the butterfly appears to have solved through natural selection. Interference patterns can lead to brilliant structural colors, but the color you see generally depends on the angles of illumination and viewing.

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