Keynote Speakers
Spencer Finch is a contemporary American artist whose artistic practice incorporates a wide variety of mediums.
His work has been exhibited internationally since the early 1990’s. His current large scale project, A Cloud Index, for the new Paddington Station in London will open in 2021.
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Jill Pilaroscia founded Colour Studio in 1979 and has over 30 years of experience in color consultation.
She is a fully accredited member of the International Association of Color Consultants. Her thesis on Color in the Manufacturing Environment is archived in both the European and the United States headquarters of the IACC. Her belief in the power of color has shaped her quest to educate the public and design professionals about the value of color.
Eve Ashcraft is a rare commodity in the design world, an expert on everything to do with color.
For 20 years, her firm, Eve Ashcraft Studio, has consulted with designers, architects, private clients, and businesses on colors for everything from interiors, exteriors, and corporate branding to paint lines and knitting yarn.
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Shashi Caan - Professor, Practitioner, Design Advocate, Futurist, Author and a distinguished thought leader for architectural design.
Her dedication and commitment to furthering human betterment through and by design is reflected in her more than two decades in the design field. She constantly seeks to integrate her work and thinking within the realms of theory, application and the resultant impacts of design.
General Session Speakers
Leslie Harrington is the Co-founder of HueData, a color intelligence company, and the Executive Director of The Color Association of the United States, a color trend agency specializing in Women’s, Men’s and Youth Fashion, as well as Interiors and Environments.
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Renzo Shamey is the author of the book Pioneers of Color Science and the current President of Inter-Society Color Council. He is currently a distinguished CIBA professor of color science and technology, a University Faculty Scholar, and the director of Color Science and Imaging Laboratories at NCSU.
Kory Stamper is an author and lexicographer (a writer or editor of dictionaries) who has grappled with everything from the meaning of “god” to the vagaries of “teal” and chronicled some of her exploits in her best-selling book, “Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries”
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Robert Hirschler has been actively involved in all aspects of color theory, color science and color technology since 1966. He graduated at the Technical University of Budapest in chemical engineering/textile chemistry. In 1967 he presented his first paper on computerized color matching and has been involved in colorimetry and color science ever since.
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