Professional Colourist Courses

Professional Colourist - Part/time 1 academic year

Next course runs from 11th September 2010 to 12th June 2011. Places still available (if you are quick!)

Who is this course for?
Anyone, with or without prior colour knowledge, who would like to become a professional colourist working both with corporate clients and in personal colour palettes.

This is a newly extended course to equip the student with all the knowledge required to become a Professional Colourist. It enables you to work with colour in any way you wish: in interiors, graphics, communication and personal colour. This course gives you a well-rounded background to colour, the history and science behind it and basic knowledge of Jungian psychology from which the Colour Affects system stems.

Learning Outcomes
- History of Colour theories over 2000 years - from Plato and Pythagoras to the   present day.
- Some basic Jungian psychology
- Fundamental tenets of colour science.
- Basics of colour management
- The physiological processes that determine emotional responses to colour
- The difference between colour symbolism and colour psychology, with examples of both.
- The Colour Affects System and the theory behind it
- The psychological properties of the main hues, both positive and negative.
- The behavioural patterns of the four psychological personality types.
- The four colour groups and how to classify colours correctly into one of the four fundamental colour palettes.
- The relationship between the four personality types and the four colour groups.
- Translating the psychology of a person into the psychology of any entity (interior space, brand/logo, packaging, etc).
- Metamerism in action
- Lighting
- Classic colour harmony theory
- Established colour order systems- e.g. NCS, Munsell, Pantone, etc. How they fit into overall colour space and the difficulties of conversion from one system to another (e.g. RGB to CMYK)
- Colour illusions
- The Law of Simultaneous Contrast

When?
This course will next run part-time from September 2010 - June 2011 and will be taught by Angela Wright.

The course runs one week-end a month from 10.00am - 5.00pm, for 10 months plus course work. It will be held at Regent's College in London on the following weekends:

11-12 September 2010
9-10 October 2010
13-14 November 2010
11-12 December 2010
15-16 January 2011
12-13 February 2011 (or 12-13th)
12-13 March 2011
9-10 April 2011
14-15 May 2011
11-12 June 2011 (EXAM weekend- you may/ may not be required to attend all of this weekend)

Following the course, providing he/she achieves at least 70% overall marks in the final exam, the colourist will then be required to undergo a number of practice consultations, returning notes and a photo of the clients to Colour Affects prior to certification and accreditation as a Colour Affects consultant. S/he will receive a joint Competence in Colour certificate from the SDC (Society of Dyers and Colourists) and membership of the Society. S/he is qualified as a professional Colour Affects colourist and will be able to carry out corporate and personal consultations, or to integrate the System into his/her existing work.

- Normal colour vision is a prerequisite of the course, and students' colour vision will be tested at the outset. If you have doubts about your colour vision, please contact Colour Affects for a test before you confirm your booking.
- There is no other pre-requisite to do the course, but there is a recommended reading list that will be provided, and a few exercises set prior to commencing, to gauge your current understanding of colour.

Classes are limited, to ensure maximum personal attention, so you will need to book early to avoid disappointment.

If you would like to secure your place right now, please scroll to the bottom of  this page.

Fees

Fees in the UK: GBP £4400 + VAT (£770.00) = £5170.00
(Early bird special:  £4050 + VAT (£708.75) = £4758.75 Sorry - no longer applicable)

Fees are normally payable by deposit of 10% (GBP517.00) and 3 subsequent stages. 

Late Booking Billing dates  for total fee of £4,400+ VAT (currently 17.5%):

33.3% of total fee (£1,467 +VAT = £1,723) to be paid by 4^th September 2010

33.3% of total fee (£1,467 +VAT = £1,723) to be paid by 30^th December 2010

33.3% of total fee (£1,467 +VAT = £1,723) to be paid by 30^th April 2011

The fees include all materials required during the course, the certificate, and a start-up set of materials to take home to do the practice consultations required prior to certification. This includes the definitives drapes and swatches (8 colours x 4 types) and a set of 10 charts with pouches (5 male, 5 female) and the first-year's membership to the SDC.

However, to practise as a personal consultant the purchase of further drapes and swatches will be required. Please ask for a price list

Note: You need to be aware that Colour Affects teaching is not quite like other professional courses... there is far more to it than mere communication of information and facts. The study of human characteristics is by definition complex.

During this wonderful trip through the mysteries of colour, you will find yourself encountering challenges. In our experience, the understanding that students gain from meeting these challenges is a bonus that increases their confidence, not just in using colour, but in life. Colour psychology does not lie, and you will find yourself exploring aspects of yourself that might have been troubling you, or perhaps you were unaware of.

 

Further Courses - Advanced

Successful graduates of Professional Qualification courses can acquire  advanced levels of competence in the practical applications of the System. Each of the following courses costs £900 + VAT each, for 1 week intensive tuition. Advanced qualification entitles you to a further certificate.

You can choose from, or take all of the following:

Applied Colour Psychology: Graphic Design.
This covers Marketing, Branding, Packaging, Product design and Web design. The tuition will develop deeper understanding of how colour works for other disciplines - e.g. professional printers, designers etc. - covering the CIELAB Colour Space, the RGB gamut, the CMYK gamut etc. It is designed to equip colourists to work with professionals from other related graphics disciplines; it does not teach graphic design skills, but how best to work alongside the designers. Overall marks of 70% and over will entitle you to a further certificate.

Applied Colour Psychology: Interior Design.
This course covers Interiors in Retailing, Hospitality, Healthcare and Workspace etc. as well as Residential Interiors. The course extends your understanding of the Natural Colour System (which is the basis of many paint ranges and, increasingly, other interior design elements, across the world), together with the implications of metamerism, and viewing colours under different lighting conditions; this advanced understanding will greatly enhance the colourist's working relationships with  others involved with the design process by ensuring that  colours specified can be easily produced. It does not teach interior design itself, beyond the most basic tenets, but how best to work alongside the designers.

Advanced Applied Colour Psychology - Personal
For personal colour consultants, this course will further increase their ability to serve their personal clients. It is designed to achieve deeper understanding of the psychology of colour. Colourists will further develop the skill of interpreting what is being unconsciously expressed by any person's stated colour preference (or, indeed, antipathy) in order to create even more effective colour palettes for their clients. This skill will give you insight into a person's emotional and mental state; whilst we do not recommend that you allow yourself to be drawn in out of your depth unless you have psychotherapy qualification, you can nevertheless be a great help and support to your clients. This will enable you to increase your fees generally and potentially to offer clients other consultancy sessions: e.g. a client who is going through some kind of crisis can be greatly helped through it with ongoing colour advice.

Applied Colour Psychology Corporate

This course is particularly recommended for those already working with colour in the corporate world. After successful completion, you will be even better equipped to carry out a full audit of the messages contained in the colours a client is currently using for corporate communications, interiors colour schemes etc. and present an objective report. Completing this course successfully will increase the qualified Colour Affects Consultant's confidence and ability  to apply objective, rational criteria to the often fraught corporate decision-making process. Your advanced knowledge of colour psychology will enable you to bring all parties together, saving the time-consuming and extremely expensive subjective debates over colour choices that tend to rage around the world of corporate design projects.