Category Archives: Organization

International Colour Authority

The International Colour Authority (ICA) is a private organization publishing forecasts about colour trends for the coming seasons, to be used by industry designers. It also awards a Seal of Approval that companies may display in their promotional materials if the colour ranges they use are appraised by the ICA.…

International Colour Authority

The Color Association of the United States

The Color Association of the United States (CAUS), known until 1955 as the Textile Color Card Association of the United States (TCCA), is an independent color trend forecasting and color consulting service to the business community, known for its textile color swatch book, the Standard Color Reference of America (formerly…

The Color Association of the United States

Color Marketing Group

The Color Marketing Group (CMG) is an international association for color design professionals which identifies the direction of color and design trends and translates them into salable colors for manufactured products. Composed of nearly 1,000 members in 20 countries, CMG forecasts color trends from one to three years in advance…

Color Marketing Group

American Association of Textile Chemists and Colorists

AATCC—the American Association of Textile Chemists and Colorists—is a 501(c)(6) not-for-profit professional association that provides test method development, quality control materials, educational development, and networking for textile and apparel professionals throughout the world. Activities AATCC has developed more than 200 textile-related standards, including test methods, evaluation procedures, and monographs. These…

American Association of Textile Chemists and Colorists

International Commission on Illumination

The International Commission on Illumination (usually abbreviated CIE for its French name, Commission internationale de l’éclairage) is the international authority on light, illumination, colour, and colour spaces. It was established in 1913 as a successor to the Commission Internationale de Photométrie and is today based in Vienna, Austria. The President…

International Commission on Illumination

Pantone

Pantone Inc. is a U.S. corporation headquartered in Carlstadt, New Jersey. The company is best known for its Pantone Matching System (PMS), a proprietary color space used in a variety of industries, primarily printing, though sometimes in the manufacture of colored paint, fabric, and plastics. X-Rite Inc., a supplier of…

Pantone

Devi Art Foundation, Gurugram, India

The Devi Art Foundation was established to facilitate the viewership of creative expression and artistic practice that exists in India. This nonprofit space provides for innovation unconstrained by commercial limitations, in order to afford an art center for artists from the region engaged in cutting-edge, experimental work. Along with providing…

Devi Art Foundation, Gurugram, India

Foundation for Art and Culture, Bonn, Germany

The Foundation for Art and Culture Bonn (German: Stiftung für Kunst und Kultur e.V.) has since served as a think tank, and as a driver and organiser of activities embracing the entire spectrum of contemporary visual art, which launched as a private sector initiative in 1986. Its main focus lies…

Foundation for Art and Culture, Bonn, Germany

Gianfranco Ferré Foundation, Milano, Italy

The Gianfranco Ferré Foundation (Italian: Fondazione Gianfranco Ferré), located in Milan at Via Tortona 37, was established in February 2008, primarily with the aim of preserving, organizing and making available to the public – first and foremost in digital archive form – the patrimony of materials that document the designer’s…

Gianfranco Ferré Foundation, Milano, Italy

Galeria de Arte Urbana, Lisbon, Portugal

The GAU – Urban Art Gallery – is now closer to everyone. We went from 7 panels installed on Calçada da Glória | Largo da Oliveirinha, to walls and facades, to waste collection trucks and bottle banks that can be discovered throughout the entire city. Considered one of the most…

Galeria de Arte Urbana, Lisbon, Portugal

Pen Museum, Birmingham, United Kingdom

The pen Museum is a museum in Birmingham, United Kingdom dedicated to educating visitors about the history of Birmingham’s steel pen trade. The only museum in the United Kingdom devoted to the history of the pen making industry, the Pen Museum explains how Birmingham became the center of the world…

Pen Museum, Birmingham, United Kingdom

Holocaust Memorial Center, Budapest, Hungary

The Holocaust Memorial Center (Holokauszt Emlékközpont) is a renovated synagogue that dates back to the 1920s and serves as a memorial and museum for and about Hungarian Jews that were killed in The Holocaust. While largely focused on Jews, the museum also mentions the discrimination and killings of Gypsies, Homosexuals,…

Holocaust Memorial Center, Budapest, Hungary

Holland Festival, Amsterdam, Netherlands

The Holland Festival is the oldest and largest performing arts festival in the Netherlands. It takes place every June in Amsterdam. It comprises theatre, music, opera and modern dance. In recent years, multimedia, visual arts, film and architecture were added to the festival roster. Since 1947 the Holland Festival is…

Holland Festival, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, United States

Founded in 1824 in Philadelphia, the Historical Society of Pennsylvania inspires people to create a better future through historical understanding. One of the oldest historical societies in the United States, it is home to some 600,000 printed items and more than 21 million manuscript and graphic items. Its unparalleled collections…

Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, United States

Historic England, London, United Kingdom

Historic England (officially the Historic Buildings and Monuments Commission for England) is an executive non-departmental public body of the British Government sponsored by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS). It is tasked with protecting the historical environment of England by preserving and listing historic buildings, ancient monuments and…

Historic England, London, United Kingdom

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