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International Colour Day 2012

Mon, 12 Mar 2012 16:06:54 GMT

International Colour Day 2012 is an exciting event which will take place at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark on the 11th of May 2012. Here you can listen to talks on how colour is used in our cities, in interior and exterior...

It's Here - NCS Gloss Scale

Fri, 02 Dec 2011 15:41:13 GMT

Our spontaneous impression of objects and environments is influenced by their gloss level. The perception of colour, the impression of aesthetics and even the feeling of quality are influenced. Surface properties, such as damage resistance and the...

NCS Insight 2012

Fri, 16 Dec 2011 13:34:51 GMT

NCS Colour once again teams up with Global Color Research, world leading trend forecasters and the company behind the trend publications Mix magazine and Mix Trends, to compile NCS Insight. Use it for mood boards, refining your collections and...

University Collaboration in China

Tue, 08 Nov 2011 13:31:34 GMT

NCS Colour continues to strengthen its global presence as part of our mission to support professional colour use and knowledge worldwide. On the booming Chinese market a new NCS Colour office has recently been established in Guangzhou. Besides, an...

Get Control Over Gloss

Thu, 29 Sep 2011 09:21:56 GMT

Two identical objects having the same colour but different surface gloss are often experienced as being different. The gloss level can in fact be the deciding factor for the rating of an object's overall aesthetics. For example, when buying...

NCS Colour Tech Centre Opening

Tue, 23 Aug 2011 15:19:09 GMT

With firecrackers and champagne, the opening of our new colour laboratory at the head office in Stockholm was held on August 26th. This means a further increase of NCS Colour Sample accuracy as well as new services, products and higher capacity. T...

Autumn Courses 2011

Mon, 08 Aug 2011 15:52:25 GMT

NCS Colour Academy ENGLISH OPEN COURSES, AUTUMN 2011 VIEW ALL COURSES AND SIGN UP, click here. NEW FOR 2011: COLOUR & DIGITAL MODELLING* ( OCTOBER 11-12.) For architects and designers . Discover how the Natural Colour System and our digital tool...

NCS Colour Germany Opens

Tue, 21 Jun 2011 14:14:30 GMT

Built around the creative nucleus which has built up around Modular itself and its group of collaborators, Aufbau Haus contains countless galleries and artist studio spaces, a kindergarden, lively café space, theatre and stores. With so many...

Gratis seminarium

Tue, 22 Mar 2011 10:56:19 GMT

Välkommen till ett kostnadsfritt frukostseminarium där du får veta mer om hur du väljer och får rätt färg vid utvändig färgsättning. NCS Colour, tidigare Skandinaviska Färginstitutet, har introducerat ett nytt färgurval för utvändig färgsättning –...

PREPARE FOR THE EXTERIOR SEASON

Fri, 18 Mar 2011 14:18:03 GMT

As the winter's bite leaves us again and the sun begins to dry our built environment we start to think about giving our houses a good lick of paint. In Sweden alone over 200,000 houses and buildings are getting ready for a new facade colour - NCS...

COLORAMA

Thu, 10 Mar 2011 12:36:29 GMT

Colorama's success as the largest independent paint retailer in the Nordic region is no real surprise, placing the customer's needs first and foremost. This year the company is bringing its customers extra choice through giving them not only paint...

STOCKHOLM DESIGN WEEK

Wed, 09 Mar 2011 13:17:35 GMT

Earlier this month Stockholm was filled to the rafters as producers, manufacturers, designers, architects, journalists and specifiers descended on the city for its annual Design Week. NCS Colour had a wonderful fair, with plenty of new contacts an...

NCS Navigator

Wed, 09 Mar 2011 16:04:58 GMT

Last year NCS Colour released NCS Navigator; an online colour design tool that let you interact with the three dimensional NCS Colour Space and create harmonic colour palettes. NCS Navigator has been such a success that over one hundred thousand...

PPG COMPETITION

Thu, 10 Mar 2011 13:06:51 GMT

This January NCS welcomed the five winners from PPG's Design Colour competition, organised by PPG Deco Poland in collaboration with NCS. The competition was open to designers, students, architects and anyone else interested in colour in design. Th...

If Proof Were Needed...

Tue, 01 Feb 2011 14:11:24 GMT

Next week our series of seminars kicks off at this year's Stockholm Furniture Fair, the week in which Sweden and its capital city becomes the focus of the world's design media. With anticipation firmly placed on the Fair as a key indicator of...

Space for Hire...

Tue, 11 Jan 2011 15:04:44 GMT

At the moment we are hosting a few days of workshops organised by Swedish 'colour boutique' Colorama who are taking advantage of the conditions we have in our office. We've got a variety of different spaces, each featuring perfect simulated dayli...

Stockholm Design Week 2011 Highlights

Tue, 11 Jan 2011 11:36:21 GMT

Last year's Design Week expanded around Stockholm, the self-proclaimed capital of Scandinavia, with openings, exhibitions and seminars open to industry professionals and the public. This year the schedule of events taking place away from the centr...

Clashing Cultures

Mon, 10 Jan 2011 14:21:57 GMT

Next week Formex's Spring edition opens for business on the 20th, here in Stockholm's Stockholmmässan. This Spring, Formex looks fresher than in previous outings with a host of new developments and activities to keep the visitor occupied including...

Colour & The Retail Experience

Tue, 04 Jan 2011 14:47:27 GMT

Reading a recent post about the use of colour in retailing it seems that the number of outlets and online stores using colour as a key part of the shopping experience is growing fast. Online stores like Etsy have a great colour search function in...

Dates for the Diary

Mon, 20 Dec 2010 15:36:33 GMT

As part of our activities surrounding next year's Stockholm Furniture Fair we will be organising seminars every day from the Tuesday to the Friday. The seminars are free to attend but we're suspecting that they will be well stocked so be sure to g...

Will Yellow Be the New Pink?

Tue, 14 Dec 2010 14:56:04 GMT

At next year's IMM Cologne we'll be holding a great seminar at Pure Village each day from Tuesday until Friday. Entitled Will Yellow Be the New Pink, the seminar will be an inspirational journey through colour trends. It's free for all visitors so...

We Have a Winner...

Tue, 14 Dec 2010 09:26:56 GMT

Christmas can and has come early for Ida Fält who was the lucky winner of a whole year full of inspiration courtesty of four copies of Mix magazine which will be winging their way to her next year. She can look forward to incredible features,...

Colour of the Week

Thu, 02 Dec 2010 14:29:41 GMT

This year if there is one thing which fully exploits the beauty of colour it's the world of cycling. With a particular slant on the small nichè markets like BMXing, Fixed Gear and Urban Tricks. If you really think about it the use of colour on an...

NCS Insight

Tue, 30 Nov 2010 09:58:08 GMT

As the year draws to its end, make sure you're well prepared for 2011 with NCS Insight. A collaboration betweeen us and our partners at Global Color Research, we have distilled the trend knowledge of the Mix Trends Colour Forecast and gathered 30 ...

Colour of the Week

Fri, 26 Nov 2010 11:04:22 GMT

This week we're not looking at the present we're looking to the future as the NCS Colour Academy's Colour Trend Workshop nears its climax. Over the past two days a panel of industry experts has been working through the themes, colours and directio...

Colour of the Week

Fri, 19 Nov 2010 11:39:21 GMT

Children engage with colour like no other group of consumers. It excites them, the bolder the better. Tegu's magnetic coloured bricks are not only fun to play and build with but the company only uses mature tropical hardwood trees, handpicked in...

Colour of the Week

Thu, 11 Nov 2010 16:04:08 GMT

This week's colour is big and its red and its a thing. Shanghai and Rome-based architects 3Gatti have given a new office building something of a talking point in the form of A Red Object, which houses a a couple of meeting rooms and a cafe. Situat...

Colour of the Week

Fri, 05 Nov 2010 08:49:37 GMT

You'd have to be living in a cave here in Sweden to have avoided the buzz around the forthcoming collection by Lanvin for H&M. The collection will be launching in a couple of weeks and looks set to sell out in one day. Yes, one day - if those at H...

Colour of the Week

Thu, 28 Oct 2010 08:47:44 GMT

Zweed is a new Swedish furniture brand specialising in bespoke pieces. It launched quietly about a month ago yet has a really strong body of work which fits into the bubbling trend for affordable, quality pieces made to suit each client's persona...

Cool Scan 2.0

Thu, 28 Oct 2010 09:23:18 GMT

The Cool Hunting piece highlights the Colour Scan as a serious tool for those involved in physical design -product, architecture, industrial design... "For the modern designer working in different locations and sites, gathering inspiration and...

Arik Levy At Stockholm's Furniture Fair

Wed, 27 Oct 2010 11:33:00 GMT

Last year's guest of honour at Stockholm's Furniture Fair was a little bit of a let down. While I love the work of Sir Paul Smith, it felt like it was a step down from previous years and about three years too late to be recognising the blurring of...

Colour of the Week

Wed, 20 Oct 2010 16:34:18 GMT

From now on we'll be posting a regular piece here on NCS News in which we'll showcase a particular colour which will have caught our eye during the previous seven days. It might be a splash of colour on a piece of design, an interesting accent use...

Satellite Colours

Mon, 18 Oct 2010 10:18:30 GMT

Dutch furniture company, Quodes , is the latest in the vast number of design companies using NCS as the base for colour use in the design process. Its Satellite range by British design stars BarberOsgerby is a striking blend of subtle form...

NCS at Hem & Villa

Thu, 14 Oct 2010 10:53:40 GMT

Stockholm played host to Hem & Villa , the biggest show for Nordic interiors (but then every interiors show which opens its doors in Scandinavia says something like this) or something similar. While some of its content was a little dubious, with...

Trend Workshop- Book Now

Mon, 04 Oct 2010 08:48:26 GMT

There's still time to book a place on this year's Colour Trend Focus here at the NCS Colour Academy. One of our most dynamic courses, the Colour Trend Focus is led by one of the industry's top forecasters, Latika Khosla from Freedom Tree Design....

NCS Exterior Roadshow Opens

Fri, 01 Oct 2010 09:16:03 GMT

Over the next few days our experts will be hitting the road, taking with them the new NCS Exterior to cities across Sweden. Armed with a host of informativeand inspirational material about the beauty of colour on the external facadé, these free...

Raf Owns Colour

Wed, 29 Sep 2010 09:21:04 GMT

Earlier this year Raf Simons tore into a menswear collection which demonstrated how intelligent use of colour is one of the most devastating techniques in any designer's toolbox. Ranging from subtle accents to expansive colour blocking, Simons...

London Design Festival 2010

Thu, 09 Sep 2010 10:35:18 GMT

Following the previous news about our collaboration with Modus at this year's London Design Festival we thought we would highlight a few of this year's key events and attractions. Over the years, London Design Festival (or LDF as many refer to it)...

Stockholm Colour Day 2010

Mon, 06 Sep 2010 15:39:25 GMT

Looming large on the horizon, like a large, action-packed, colourful spectre is this year's Stockholm Colour Day. Following in the footsteps of last year's International Colour Day, we have created an event catering specifically for our...

Lanvin Hearts H&M

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 09:44:08 GMT

The confirmation that the fashionworld has been waiting for was releasesd today from Swedish fashion giant H&M who announced that, yes, its Autumn 2010 designer collection would be created by Parisian trendsetters, Lanvin. “H&M approached us to...

Pick A Colour

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 16:37:15 GMT

Fancy a peek at what happens when the world's leading colour system for design teams up with the best contemporary trend forecasting studio? Well, if you're in London during this year's design festival you can take a gander at our collaboration wi...

New News

Wed, 02 Jun 2010 15:52:30 GMT

Welcome to the all new ncscolour.com. Refined, redesigned and reconfigured to make it easier than ever before to access the incredible power of NCS- Natural Colour System. Our new site features a new product and webshop section which lets you buy...

Australian Architecture Shines Again

Thu, 10 Jun 2010 10:58:49 GMT

Last year one building stood out above the rest in terms of colour (although, archtiecturally speaking it was not exactly weak - it was wonderful), the Klein Bottle House by McBride Charles Ryan Architecture & Interior Design. The Australian...

Brothers Grymm

Thu, 10 Jun 2010 10:09:57 GMT

Apartment 50 is the perfect example of how to use colour in the interior environment. There are few designers out there capable of touching the French Bouroullec brothers, Ronan and Erwan, in terms of use of colour in design. The work the pair hav...

Green Shades

Thu, 10 Jun 2010 10:36:31 GMT

Jotun Powder Coatings, the leading power coatings arm of NCS Patners Jotun, has just released a unique range of powder coatings designed to reduce heat absorption in aluminum extrusions. Utilising heat reflective technology the new range, called...

White Does it Mean?

Thu, 10 Jun 2010 09:20:39 GMT

Product designers have always been faced with a problem where colour choice is concerned. Aside from the inherent problems of securring the right colour - solved easily by using NCS throughout your design process, you are faced with the initial...

New NCS Exterior

Tue, 08 Jun 2010 13:06:34 GMT

The new NCS Exterior is a unique concept in contemporary colouring. Designed and created by our team of researchers, Exterior is a collection of colours specifically for use facades. In our many years of colour research we have collected huge...

MMM at Somerset House

Tue, 08 Jun 2010 11:45:01 GMT

For a man whose enigma dictates that he is rarely seen in person - even at his own shows, Martin Margiela must be one of the most prolific designers so far this year. 20, a new show running throughout the summer at the beautiful Somerset House in...

Colorix

Tue, 08 Jun 2010 12:53:11 GMT

The Colorix.com iPhone application is a new application from Swiss company Colorix, developers of hand-held colourimeters. Used across the design and architecture industry, its new application is sure to be a winner in the eyes of its many users....

Leave it to Li

Mon, 07 Jun 2010 10:13:26 GMT

Swedish paint company Alcro has linked up with the world's foremost trend forecaster and ex Eindhoven Academy Chairwoman, Li Edelkoort for its tenth collection of design-specific colours. Called ad.10, this collection continues Alcro's work with...

Paper Power

Wed, 02 Jun 2010 15:19:18 GMT

Distancing herself from traditional tailoring techniques and materials, Bea Szenfeld's work focusses on paper-made garments. In her latest collection displayed recently at Stockholm's Design gallery, Szenfeld mixes a realm of inspirations. Fusing...

Which Side Are You On?

Wed, 02 Jun 2010 14:59:55 GMT

One of Sweden's most satisfying companies, Happy Socks has given us a range of socks which will allow us to show out allegiance to our team of choice this world cup without painting our faces,bellies or wearing a wig! Collaborating with NYC's Wong...

Milan 2010

Fri, 23 Apr 2010 10:19:51 GMT

Milan looked like a very interesting proposition this year from the ourtsiders perspective and, for once - thanks to the now infamous volcano, we followed it closely from the comforts of home. From the off there seems not to have been that much in...

Nordbygg 2010

Tue, 06 Apr 2010 09:03:04 GMT

As well as taking our new stand concept to Farbe this March, NCS Colour also exhibited at Nordbygg in Stockholm. The exhibition, the meeting point of the Nordic building industry, was an interesting one for us, a gentle testing ground for our new...

Of Brass

Wed, 31 Mar 2010 10:48:42 GMT

It's hard not to write about Acne this year. The brand is driving so many trends that it's almost ignorant not to take note of its actions. This week the brand has taken its distinctive vision to Antwerp (as perviously mentioned, one of Europe's...

Black is always back

Wed, 31 Mar 2010 09:30:35 GMT

Last week a very attractive show opened in Antwerp's Mode Museum (MoMu). Its focus, black and its impact on fashion and costume through the ages. As a colour, its significance to the very city which plays host to the exhibition is profound. Throug...

In Every Tree

Tue, 30 Mar 2010 14:37:02 GMT

Working between the boundaries of art and design under the label In Every Tree , Swedish designers Maria Larsson and Maria Olevik focus on sculptural bone china objects, as well as light in its spatial context. The designers investigate the use of...