The Design Institute of Australia has very kindly offered Decorators Catalogue ten free tickets to it's 'Adding Colour to ID' event tomorrow evening in Sydney.

Details are below.

Tickets will be given to the first 10 people who email trish@decoratorscatalogue.com.au or phone Trish on 0438 388 336.

The Design Insitute evenings are invariably very interesting and a good opportunity to network with others in the industry.

Adding Colour to ID

Three leading colour experts who work with Industrial Designers on a daily basis share the importance of colour in this industry. How they specify product colours, how they match colours across different materials, and how they manage colour developments and trends.

Date: Wednesday 21st July 2010
Location:ISCD, Foyer Auditorium, 99 Mount Street, North Sydney
Time: 6pm for a 6.30pm start

The speakers will be :

Chalisa Morrison, Senior Colour & Trim Design Consultant, Toyota.
Chalisa has over 14 years of design experience, including 7 years Automotive Design experience and over 7 years experience in Fashion Design. She has worked for Toyota and Mitsubishi Motors and in her own fashion design businesses. Chalisa has a passion for design, colour and aesthetics.

Rebecca Harkness, Colour and Design Specialist, NHPL.
Rebecca been working with colour and quality control procedures for over ten years, originally studying colour at the ISCD she has expanded her resume to graphic designer, web designer and colour specialist. Rebecca also runs intensive workshops and presents on colour, colour in business, colour branding, design and using the NCS system. She has over ten years experience working with NCS. Rebecca will take you through the NCS system and its possibilities, the benefits of using NCS and how to successfully specify a NCS colour for any material.

Mike Cooper, Industrial Designer, Director, Design United
Mike Cooper began his design career as an industrial designer at Blue Sky Design in 1993 and completed an 18 month stint at Philips in the Netherlands 1998. Whilst at Philips he discovered there was a whole department of designers that fit in the space between graphic and industrial design. A committed team of designers that specialise in colours, graphics, materials and finishes. Design United was established in 2000 to fit in the same space in Australia - graphic designers who understand product and product designers who understand graphics.

The DIA are pleased to announce that Prue Royal, the founding director of the International School of Colour and Design, will MC the event. Please note that there will be an opportunity to view RIPE, the graduating show of the students from the International School of Colour and Design.