Colour as vocation: Werner Spillmann's contribution to environmental colour design

Color Research and Application

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 53-65

  Schindler, Verena M ^a  

^a Art and Architectural Historian   (France)

Author keywords

AIC); Bridging theory and practice; Colour and psychology; Colour education; Colour in architecture; Colour order systems; Environmental colour design; History of the International Colour Association (Association Internationale de la Couleur; Kirchsteigfeld; Method of conceptual colour planning; Werner Spillmann

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN; COLORIMETRY; EDUCATION; TEACHING;

COLOUR EDUCATION; COLOUR ORDER SYSTEMS; ENVIRONMENTAL COLOUR DESIGN;

COLOR;

EID: 11244288045     PISSN: 03612317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/col.20075     Document Type: Article

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