Color defines, clarifies, and enriches the spaces in which we live, enhancing our comfort and enjoyment. This course integrates the elements of color, light, and materials and focuses on understanding the positive human response to color as a resource for designers.
Research shows that color and light affect humans at conscious and unconscious levels.
Understanding the psychological and physiological reactions to color enables you to create aesthetically pleasing and humane interior environments. In slide-illustrated lectures, the instructor explores the healing effects of color in designing color for the residence, the workplace, and health care, educational, and industrial facilities. Course projects allow you to develop color palettes, select materials, and design lighting for specific emotional and physical effects in order to shape interior environments using color, light, and materials. She teaches for FIDM and gives painting workshops in the Bay Area. She has taught for San Francisco Art Institute Extension and the Academy of Art College, and has developed design and color concepts for corporate interior projects with architectural firms in San Francisco, New York, Paris, Bern, and Tokyo.