Professional Colourist Courses
Colour Affects' exciting new Professional Education Program starts in 2012.
Professional Colourist - Part/time
Angela Wright will be running this course, in Central london, from 28th January - 30 June 2012
Scroll down to the bottom of the page to reserve your place on this course.
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.
Learning Outcomes
- History of Colour theories over 2000 years - from Plato and Pythagoras to the present day.
- Fundamental tenets of colour science.
- 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.
The course runs one week-end a month from 10.00am - 5.00pm, for 6 months plus course work.
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
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
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.
Qualification entitles you to certification for the relevant application.