Wednesday 26 October, 6.30pm
Riccardo Falcinelli presents
Chromorama: How Colour Changed Our Way of Seeing in conversation with Alice Vincent
Award-winning graphic designer and author Riccardo Falcinelli presents his best-selling book recently published in the UK by Penguin Random House: an exploration of colour and the modern gaze. Taking in everything from Titian to Hitchcock, from medieval dyes to Mayonnaise, from Queen Victoria to Michelle Obama, Falcinelli guides us through the history of colour to show us the material, scientific and intellectual shifts that inform our attitudes to colour, art and design.
Riccardo Falcinelli is an award-winning graphic designer and best-selling author whose work has been highly acclaimed in Italy and around the world. He teaches at the ISIA Faculty of Design in Rome
Alice Vincent is a writer. Her books include Rootbound, Rewilding a Life and the forthcoming Why Women Grow. A columnist for Gardens Illustrated, Alice writes for The New Statesman, Vogue, The Guardian, The Telegraph and other titles, and is the features editor of Penguin.Co.UK.
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