It’s quite exciting to announce that this week I founded Colour Intelligence with my colleague Dr Kaida Xiao. We have some quite exciting things planned. It’s my second time running a start-up. I formed Colourware Ltd in about 1994 and I only stopped running that company when I became ultra busy at Leeds University in my professorial role and when I was also Head of School of Design. I can’t say any more about what we have planned just now but hopefully I will be able to do that soon.
I have been providing free information about colour on the internet since … well, almost since the internet existed! My posts here on colourchat have received over 300,000 views from more than 200,000 people. But before I ran this blog I ran something called an FAQ. FAQs were on the internet long before blogs and my colour physics FAQ was available for free for decades, providing free information about colour measurement to anyone who was interested. I have also contributed to TheConversation and my post there the effect of colour on our bodies and minds is the 7th most read article on TheConversation by anyone at the University of Leeds with about 170,000 reads. I am passionate about colour education and I am part of the colour literacy project.
Recently I had the idea to generate even better content that can educate about colour and to this end I started a patreon page. For some of this content I am charging a couple of dollars per month for access. But the idea is to generate some funds to allow the highest quality colour education material to be developed. That’s my dream anyway. If you would like to support me doing this – and also see the material that is being developed – please think about supporting me at the patreon website.
Whatever happens I will continue to keep this Colourchat resource free and will post here as often as I can.
Recently I had the idea of trying to teach the basics of colour theory using Instagram.
The idea is to keep the messages really clear and simple and combine them with colourful imagery.
You can see this on my Instagram account @colourchat.
I was inspired to do this after watching what GothamChess was doing on Instagram to teach some simple – and not so simple – ideas about chess. Who would have thought it? From chess theory to colour theory.