How we think and work
Well thought-out colour concepts are decisive for the quality of design and architecture tasks. Colour concepts integrate sensual sensations, identify functions and establish cultural connections. Strategic colour concepts are the result of experimental testing, methodical observation and intensive (future) research.
Colour designers identify trends, develop collections, design surfaces and create applied atmospheres.
About the field of colour design
Colour designers work with applied colour systems, mood boards, colour and trend profiles, colour plans, pattern developments and structures, colour and material collages and empirical future scenarios. Using these tools and visualisation techniques, they develop analogue and digital colour, material and surface concepts with regard to the colourfulness of products, series and collections, as well as urban spaces, facades and interiors.
The study of colour design in Hildesheim is unique in Europe and prepares you to master colour as a means of expression and design and to be able to integrate and present formal aesthetic, artistic and scientific-technological factors with cultural aspects.
In the competence field of Colour Design, the Faculty of Design offers you:
- Applied knowledge in colour psychology and colour sociology
- Knowledge of the effect of colour on well-being, psyche and behaviour in architecture and product design
- Basic knowledge in colorimetry and colour systematics
- Interdisciplinary principles in the competence fields of interior architecture and lighting design
- Methods of trend scouting and Colour futurology
- Surface design, Colour Material Finish (CMF)
- Basic principles of technical surface treatment (digital/analogue)
- Colour planning in the fields of space and product
- Option of spending an internship semester or a semester abroad at one of our numerous partner universities around the world
Colour design plays a crucial role in architecture and product development in all major industries. Integrated colour and surface design is also becoming increasingly important in the fields of visual communication and digital media. After completing a Bachelor's degree, colour designers can take advantage of an exceptionally wide range of career opportunities. Graduates work as experts for colour and surface design in interdisciplinary design teams, in architecture and interior design offices, colour & trim and product design studios as well as in graphic and communication design or as trend scouts in industry, trend and advertising agencies. Activities with a background in the skilled trades in manufacturing or skilled craftsman’s businesses are also an option.
