Stephen Westland
I have been in the School of Design at the University of Leeds for over 21 years. Before that I worked in colour engineering. Before that in colour neuroscience. My first degree was in colour chemistry. So I have had a varied career but colour has been at the heart of it. I don t think Continue reading Colour Design Strategies
I have worked in colour pretty much all my life. In 1980 I started learning at the University of Leeds where I was enrolled on BSc Colour Chemistry. That was 44 years ago! Since 1980 I have been learning, working, researching and teaching colour for almost all of those years. I have learned a lot Continue reading The most important thing about colour
Things are coloured because we have visual systems. In other words, without us or some similar sentient being there would be no colour. By convention there is sweetness, by convention bitterness, by convention color, in reality only atoms and the void. , Democritus, 460-370 BCE. If we eliminated all living beings from the universe Continue reading Why are things coloured?
This is a short video I recorded about the way that we teach children that the rainbow is ROY G BIV. It s a simplification of course and it may be that it reasonable to simplify things when we are teaching small children. If you like this sort of thing you might also like this article Continue reading How many colours are there in the rainbow?
I recorded this video in my labs at the University of Leeds. We have a special lighting lab where we can adjust the spectral properties of the lighting in the room. I started the video and had the lighting automatically cycle through some colours. After a short while it became irritating so I had to Continue reading The danger of blue light
I posted this on LinkedIn the other day and it has certainly a lot of arguments. So I thought I would post it here. The link is to my Patreon site but it is free to read (like many of the articles). The issue is that when you darken a yellow it tends to go Continue reading Dark Yellow
Today I recorded by fourth video on the Colourchat youtube channel. You can see the video here. I started with a very difficult question where is colour? which ended up having to be recorded in two parts. So it was somewhat of a relief to record this easier question is black a Continue reading Is black a colour?
During my recent travels (Thailand for AIC; and China) i was thinking about podcasts and youtube etc. and I had an idea for creating a series of youtube videos about colour. What I didn t want to do was create a powerpoint presentation and speak over it. I think we are all bored with that aren t Continue reading Colourchat on youtube
I am really excited to announce a new Masters programme at University of Leeds in the School of Design. MSc Colour is a postgraduate qualification that is launching in 2024. There are two unique aspects to the programme. Firstly, it is inherently multidisciplinary. Colour is a natural meta-discipline and to study well it is important Continue reading MSc Colour
I was involved in a couple of very short podcasts this year for something called Moment of Um. It is for kids. Here is a link to one of them.