Inter-Society Color Council Meeting and Expert Symposium
15th Sep. '08 • Color as a Profession • Tags: color industry, ISCC, speaker kate smith
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I spoke yesterday at the Inter-Society Color Council along with several others and it turned out to be a day where I was both imparting and absorbing knowledge.
Robert Buckley, Xerox and ISCC President had a few opening remarks and then one of my colorful friend’s Leslie Harrington, Executive Director of Color Association of the US dove right into her talk. I was Leslie’s Vice Chair last year for the CMG conference and I shared the stage with her again today as she talked about “The reds of love and rage: A note on the risks of eliciting negative emotions” and I talked about “Macro moods to industry insight”. Maybe I can get Leslie to join me on a webinar to share her study of red very soon.
Next up was “A retrospective on the color courses of Ralph Stanziola” by Kim Galloway. I’ll be the first to admit that this doesn’t sound that interesting especially since he taught in the technical area of color but I’ll also be the first to admit when I’m wrong. I don’t think there was anyone in the room that didn’t have their eyes glued to the screen as Kim played clips of Ralph in action. Not many people have the talent to talk about technology in a way that captivates the non-technical crowd but we learned from Kim that this was one of Ralph’s many gifts. (more…)
