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Internationale Vereinigung für die Farbe

 

Association Internationale de la Couleur

 

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Arne Valberg is the winner of the Judd award 2009

The award will be presented during the AIC 11th Congress in Sydney, Australia, on Wednesday 30 September 2009. Following the presentation of the Judd medal and the citation of the award, Arne Valberg will deliver the Judd lecture.

     For the 2009 Judd award, four single nominations and one joint nomination were received. All nominees have made outstanding contributions to the understanding of colour. The members of the 2009 Judd Award Committee have been: Paula Alessi, Robert Hunt, John Hutchings, Mitsuo Ikeda, Daniel Lozano, Alan Robertson, Lars Sivik, Gunnar Tonnquist, and Pieter Walraven. These nine previous winners of the award and past president gave very careful consideration to the nominations.

     See the AIC e-news of June 2009 for details about the work and publications by Arne Valberg, and the “Judd Award” section here for the list of previous awardees.

 

Anders Hård has passed away

Doctor honoris causa and color researcher Anders Hård passed away 6th March 2009 at the age of 86. In the early sixties he started the research about how the human being perceives color. The aim was to develop a universal language to denote and describe colors. The unique approach —his phenomenological way of looking upon colors— made it possible for him to verify theories that Ewald Hering had published almost hundred years earlier. After several years of psychophysical research Hård in collaboration with Gunnar Tonnquist and Lars Sivik were able to present a color order and scaling system named the NCS - Natural Color System, and a color atlas. After the Scandinavian Institute was founded in 1978 he was working full time with color research and color education. He continued to conduct interdisciplinary research on color and spread knowledge about this subject to practitioners from a wide variety of fields. He was associate research professor at the environmental design department of the architectural section at Chalmers University of Technology. Research about color did engage him far after he was retired. In the sixties, Anders was one of the forerunners of the AIC, which had its first congress in Stockholm 1969. He had his first paper about NCS at the color congress in Luzern 1965 and since then he had lectured and given papers at most of the AIC congresses and meetings. He arranged the most appreciated and memorable AIC Forsius Symposium on Color Systems in Kungälv 1983. For the scientific work, Hård together with Tonnquist and Sivik got the AIC Judd Award in 1997. He was curious and followed color science to his death. He attended the AIC Interim Meeting 2008 in Stockholm, and his latest work is published in the new book Colour for architecture today by Byron Mikellides. We keep his lifework in mind.

 

New AIC regular member:
The International Association of Color Consultants, North American chapter, has ben accepted into the AIC as associate member. Visit its website at
www.iaccna.org.

 

 

AIC 2009: The 11th Congress will be held in Sydney, Australia, 27 Setember – 2 October 2009.

Hosted by the Color Society of Australia.

 

Visit www.aic2009.org for updated information.

 

The AIC Interim Meeting “Colour - Effects & Affects” was held on 15-18 June 2008 in Stockholm, Sweden.

Organized by the Swedish Colour Centre Foundation.

& Download the proceedings (RAR compressed file, 20 MB)

 

 

The Proceedings of the Midterm Meeting AIC 2007, “Color Science for Industry” are available in PDF.

View and download pictures of the meeting!

 

& Download the proceedings (PDF file, 14 MB)

 

 

The Proceedings of the Interim Meeting AIC 2006, “Colour in Culture and Colour in Fashion” are available in PDF.

& Download the proceedings (PDF file, 25 MB)

 

 

The Proceedings of the Interim Meeting AIC 2004, “Color and Paints”, are available in PDF.

& Download the proceedings (PDF file, 16 MB)

 

 

The Proceedings of the Midterm Meeting AIC 2003, “Color Communication and Management”, are available in PDF.

& Download the proceedings (PDF file, 41 MB)

 

 

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