2012-05-17T06:47:15.5344133Zhttp://ncscolour.com/en/rm/news/EPiServer CMS 5http://ncscolour.com/en/rm/news/Dates/2012/3/International-Colour-Day-2012/2012-03-12T15:06:54.7500000Z

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...

http://ncscolour.com/en/rm/news/Dates/2011/12/81/2011-12-02T14:41:13.4130000Z

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...

http://ncscolour.com/en/rm/news/Dates/2011/12/811/2011-12-16T12:34:51.8730000Z

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...

http://ncscolour.com/en/rm/news/Dates/2011/11/81/2011-11-08T12:31:34.9570000Z

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...

http://ncscolour.com/en/rm/news/Dates/2011/91/81/2011-09-29T07:21:56.9400000Z

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...

http://ncscolour.com/en/rm/news/Dates/2011/9/81/2011-08-23T13:19:09.6100000Z

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...

http://ncscolour.com/en/rm/news/Dates/2011/8/8/2011-08-08T13:52:25.3230000Z

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...

http://ncscolour.com/en/rm/news/Dates/2011/6/NCS-Colour-Germany-Opens/2011-06-21T12:14:30.3730000Z

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...

http://ncscolour.com/en/rm/news/Dates/2011/3/Test/2011-03-22T09:56:19.8500000Z

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 –...

http://ncscolour.com/en/rm/news/Dates/2011/3/PREPARE-FOR-THE-EXTERIOR-SEASON/2011-03-18T13:18:03.2570000Z

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...

http://ncscolour.com/en/rm/news/Dates/2011/3/test/2011-03-10T11:36:29.5530000Z

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...

http://ncscolour.com/en/rm/news/Dates/2011/3/If-Proof-Were-Needed/2011-03-09T12:17:35.5230000Z

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...

http://ncscolour.com/en/rm/news/Dates/2011/3/If-Proof-Were-Needed1/2011-03-09T15:04:58.7430000Z

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...

http://ncscolour.com/en/rm/news/Dates/2011/3/PPG-COMPETITION/2011-03-10T12:06:51.8800000Z

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...

http://ncscolour.com/en/rm/news/Dates/2011/2/If-Proof-Were-Needed/2011-02-01T13:11:24.7270000Z

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...

http://ncscolour.com/en/rm/news/Dates/2011/1/Space-for-Hire/2011-01-11T14:04:44.6600000Z

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...

http://ncscolour.com/en/rm/news/Dates/2011/1/Stockholm-Design-Week-Highlights/2011-01-11T10:36:21.8630000Z

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...

http://ncscolour.com/en/rm/news/Dates/2011/1/Clashing-Cultures/2011-01-10T13:21:57.7570000Z

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...

http://ncscolour.com/en/rm/news/Dates/2011/1/Colour--The-Retail-Experience/2011-01-04T13:47:27.9000000Z

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...

http://ncscolour.com/en/rm/news/Dates/2010/12/Dates-for-the-Diary/2010-12-20T14:36:33.9400000Z

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...

http://ncscolour.com/en/rm/news/Dates/2010/12/Will-Yellow-Be-the-New-Pink/2010-12-14T13:56:04.1030000Z

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...

http://ncscolour.com/en/rm/news/Dates/2010/12/We-Have-a-Winner/2010-12-14T08:26:56.9170000Z

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,...

http://ncscolour.com/en/rm/news/Dates/2010/12/Colour-of-the-Week/2010-12-02T13:29:41.5200000Z

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...

http://ncscolour.com/en/rm/news/Dates/2010/11/NCS-Insight/2010-11-30T08:58:08.2530000Z

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 ...

http://ncscolour.com/en/rm/news/Dates/2010/11/Colour-of-the-Week3/2010-11-26T10:04:22.4200000Z

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...

http://ncscolour.com/en/rm/news/Dates/2010/11/Colour-of-the-Week2/2010-11-19T10:39:21.4500000Z

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...

http://ncscolour.com/en/rm/news/Dates/2010/11/Colour-of-the-Week1/2010-11-11T15:04:08.1330000Z

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...

http://ncscolour.com/en/rm/news/Dates/2010/11/Colour-of-the-Week/2010-11-05T07:49:37.4900000Z

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...

http://ncscolour.com/en/rm/news/Dates/2010/10/Colour-of-the-Week1/2010-10-28T06:47:44.7900000Z

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...

http://ncscolour.com/en/rm/news/Dates/2010/10/Colour-Scan-20-on-Cool-Hunting/2010-10-28T07:23:18.1300000Z

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...

http://ncscolour.com/en/rm/news/Dates/2010/10/Arik-Levy-At-Stockholms-Furniture-Fair/2010-10-27T09:33:00.1500000Z

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...

http://ncscolour.com/en/rm/news/Dates/2010/10/Colour-of-the-Week/2010-10-20T14:34:18.9230000Z

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...

http://ncscolour.com/en/rm/news/Dates/2010/10/Satellite-Colours/2010-10-18T08:18:30.8270000Z

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...

http://ncscolour.com/en/rm/news/Dates/2010/10/NCS-at-Hem--Villa/2010-10-14T08:53:40.2070000Z

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...

http://ncscolour.com/en/rm/news/Dates/2010/10/Trend-Workshop--Book-Now/2010-10-04T06:48:26.1400000Z

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....

http://ncscolour.com/en/rm/news/Dates/2010/10/Roadshow-Opens/2010-10-01T07:16:03.4530000Z

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...

http://ncscolour.com/en/rm/news/Dates/2010/9/Raf-Owns-Colour/2010-09-29T07:21:04.3800000Z

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...

http://ncscolour.com/en/rm/news/Dates/2010/9/London-Design-Festival-2010/2010-09-09T08:35:18.2470000Z

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)...

http://ncscolour.com/en/rm/news/Dates/2010/9/Stockholm-Colour-Day-2010/2010-09-06T13:39:25.9130000Z

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...

http://ncscolour.com/en/rm/news/Dates/2010/9/Lanvin-Hearts-hM/2010-09-02T07:44:08.7700000Z

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...

http://ncscolour.com/en/rm/news/Dates/2010/9/Pick-A-Colour/2010-09-01T14:37:15.4600000Z

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...

http://ncscolour.com/en/rm/news/Dates/2010/6/Welcome-to-the-New/2010-06-02T13:52:30.6530000Z

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...

http://ncscolour.com/en/rm/news/Dates/2010/6/Australian-Architecture-Shines-Again/2010-06-10T08:58:49.9630000Z

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...

http://ncscolour.com/en/rm/news/Dates/2010/6/Brothers-Grymm/2010-06-10T08:09:57.5130000Z

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...

http://ncscolour.com/en/rm/news/Dates/2010/6/Green-Shades/2010-06-10T08:36:31.0770000Z

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...

http://ncscolour.com/en/rm/news/Dates/2010/6/White-Does-it-Mean/2010-06-10T07:20:39.9570000Z

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...

http://ncscolour.com/en/rm/news/Dates/2010/6/New-NCS-Exterior/2010-06-08T11:06:34.2270000Z

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...

http://ncscolour.com/en/rm/news/Dates/2010/6/MMM-at-Somerset-House/2010-06-08T09:45:01.0700000Z

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...

http://ncscolour.com/en/rm/news/Dates/2010/6/Colorix/2010-06-08T10:53:11.2900000Z

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....

http://ncscolour.com/en/rm/news/Dates/2010/6/Leave-it-to-Li/2010-06-07T08:13:26.0600000Z

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...

http://ncscolour.com/en/rm/news/Dates/2010/6/Paper-Power/2010-06-02T13:19:18.4830000Z

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...

http://ncscolour.com/en/rm/news/Dates/2010/6/Which-Side-Are-You-On/2010-06-02T12:59:55.4670000Z

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...

http://ncscolour.com/en/rm/news/Dates/2010/4/Milan-2010/2010-04-23T08:19:51.2630000Z

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...

http://ncscolour.com/en/rm/news/Dates/2010/4/Nordbygg-2010/2010-04-06T07:03:04.9930000Z

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...

http://ncscolour.com/en/rm/news/Dates/2010/3/Of-Brass/2010-03-31T08:48:42.6070000Z

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...

http://ncscolour.com/en/rm/news/Dates/2010/3/Black-is-always-back/2010-03-31T07:30:35.0930000Z

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...

http://ncscolour.com/en/rm/news/Dates/2010/3/In-Every-Tree/2010-03-30T12:37:02.3900000Z

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...