The New Anatomy of Colour – David Briggs Webinar
International Colour Day is March 21st, and to celebrate, Inter-Society Color Council (ISCC) is hosting a webinar with painter and teacher David Briggs, who will be presenting at the Munsell Centennial Color Symposium in June. … Continue reading
Teaching Color to Elementary Students: Fourth Grade Lesson
We continue our series of excerpts of Albert’s lesson plans for students from Chapter II of A Color Notation, the 1905 book that introduces the Munsell color order system using the three dimensions of color, HUE, VALUE, and CHROMA to … Continue reading
100 Years of Color Communication: The Munsell Symposium
An interview with event co-chairs, Maggie Maggio & Paula Alessi Where did the idea of holding a symposium come from? Marie Meyer, an artist and author of the Multi-Brand Color Chart for pastels, contacted the ISCC and AIC last year … Continue reading
The Conical Spiral & Color Harmony
We recently received this question from a visualization major… We use the New Munsell Student Color Set in our color theory course. In the chapter about color harmony, Munsell shows us a few 3-dimensional theories to create a balanced color … Continue reading
Teaching Practical Color Theory – A New Approach
The first time I learned about the Munsell Color System was from a 2D color wheel presented in artist Harley Brown’s instructional book. [1] The most significant information I obtained from that color wheel was its inclusion of brown and … Continue reading
Visual Analytics with Complementary & Analogous Color Harmony
In this blog, we discuss how to create a color wheel using the Munsell color order system and how to apply concepts of the resulting color harmony to developing visual analytics. … Continue reading
Munsell Manual of Color – Defining and Explaining the Fundamental Characteristics of Color
This “little booklet” was originally published in 1929 and contains summarized materials from the Munsell Book of Color. It was intended to reach a wider audience, to help facilitate a basic understanding of the color system and to spark an … Continue reading
“Frank J. Reilly – The Elements of Painting”: An Interview with Artist, Author & Educator Ralph Garafola Part 2
In this second part of our series, we talk to Ralph about Frank J. Reilly’s contribution to the Munsell system, the three things that can’t be painted, what colors painters should use, the importance of value, advice for young artists and … Continue reading
Color in a New Light Exhibition
We sat down with Jennifer Cohlman Bracchi, Reference Librarian at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York City, to talk about the exhibit, Color in a New Light. The exhibition follows the theme of color through the vast collections … Continue reading
The Munsell Book of Color 1929: Use of the Charts
The Munsell System provides a notation for any color in the universe. The charts contain a careful selection of colors arranged in orderly sequences of HUE, VALUE, and CHROMA. … Continue reading
