The International Colour Association (A.I.C.) Study Group on Colour Education

Abstract

The International Colour Association (A.I.C.) is supported by colour organizations in its member countries, a list of which has been provided in Leonardo [1]. (A more up-to-date list of member countries is given in Ref. 2.) Three Congresses on colour have been organized by the A.I.C. (Stockholm, 1969; York, England, 1973 [1]; Troy, N.Y., U.S.A., 1977 [3]); the next one will take place in West Berlin in 1981. At the Congresses research papers were read and discussed on various aspects of colour in science, art and industry. Following the Congresses, books were published containing the survey lectures and abstracts of the papers presented [2, 4,5]. Recently the A.I.C. set up a Study Group on Colour Education, of which the chairman is J. Schanda of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. The purpose of the Group is to collect information on the teaching of colour and to disseminate information useful to