Identifying colour use and knowledge in textile design practice
- Submitting institution
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The University of Lancaster
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 237307386
- Type
- C - Chapter in book
- DOI
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10.1075/z.217
- Book title
- Progress in Colour Studies : Cognition, language and beyond
- Publisher
- John Benjamins
- ISBN
- 9789027201041
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2018
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- The chapter presents a research project investigating the colour practices and understanding of textile designers. By eliciting accounts of colours used in designs alongside preferences and dislikes from a substantial sample (n=69) of young textile designers from a wide range of nationalities, a new perspective for considering the colour ‘palette types’ of designers is presented, as well as baseline information on their subject knowledge. The context for the work is one in which address to colour in creative arts education has diminished while other disciplines have moved on thinking about colour language, colour perception and preference. The challenge for the creative arts is that other disciplines are projecting theory onto practice in art and design from an external perspective. This study sought to provide a foundational proposition from within the field as the basis for further work on the understanding of palette that might be applied in different contexts. The establishment of replicable means by which to assess palette type has both application in consumer studies as well as scope to inform creative decision-making in applied practice. The chapter also explored the use of colour terms and descriptive references among the multi-cultural respondents. The paper was originally presented at the 2016 Progress in Colour Studies (PICS) conference which, continuing the series from earlier PICS conferences, brings together a global network of specialists from a wide range of disciplines including vision science, psychology, psycholinguistics, linguistics, anthropology, onomastics, philosophy, archaeology and design. The work described has contributed to palette studies through the extension of preference discussions beyond the pairings common in psycho-physics approaches to the topic, bringing a necessary focus on applications to utility of the findings in business and commerce, as well as to connoisseurship.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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