Master Colours to Evoke Feelings,
Influence Clients, and
Invigorate Your Design Projects
Debbie Abercrombie’s Colour Course is a one-of-a-kind learning experience around colours, and their pivotal role in design psychology & elevating your creative & professional practice
”If Debbie Abercrombie was a colour she would be a rainbow.” - Resene Total Colour Awards judges
“Colours are just colours — they aren’t THAT important.”
Then how do you explain rainbows, traffic lights, crayons and highlighter pens?
Colours shape the way people see the world. Using the right colour and placement of it can seriously affect and influence feelings, attention, behaviours and even buying decisions.
Even research done on Alzeimer’s patients shows that colour cues improve memory, with learners recalling images in colour more easily than images in just black and white.
Debbie Abercrombie — one of New Zealand’s foremost interior designers for residential, commercial and marine spaces — has built an entire course around colours to bring a new, unique, endlessly imaginative design perspective to her clients, whether curious design hobbyists or professionals, across Auckland.
“Debbie Abercrombie designed and organised the new furnishing for our apartment, which were specifically chosen to match the decor and dimensions of what we wanted and felt comfortable with. It was a friendly, positive experience.”
- Paul Maynard, The Colour Course alumna
What’s Inside The Colour Course?
Colour is one of the most important elements of design. There’s a wealth of factors to consider in choosing the perfect colours for your project, no matter its size, scale or nature.
In this course, Debbie provides the best strategies in choosing the right colour palette to set the right mood for any design you’re working on.
Not only will you learn the basics of colour psychology in this course, but you will also garner a better understanding of how to manipulate all the essential elements of colours.
Here’s a glimpse of what you can learn from The Colour Course…
What’s Inside The Colour Course?
Colour is one of the most important elements of design. But there are a lot of things to consider in choosing the perfect colours for your project.
Not only you will learn the basics of colour psychology in this course but you will also have a better understanding of how to manipulate all the essential elements of colours.
MODULE 1:
Discover the basics of colour theory, colour harmony and the psychology of colour — all essential elements to help identify your or your client’s colour preferences.
You will learn:
- How colours interact and affect each other
- How colour deceives and how you can manipulate colours effectively
- How colour is created in paint and print
- How to detect and tweak hue, tints, and tones
- How to use different colour combinations for your own or others' environments through experiencing first-hand what happens when pigments are mixed and how colour can be subdued
MODULE 2:
Identify the right colour solutions for different interior and exterior projects.
Learn how to use colour and tone to alter perspective and understand which colours enlarge or reduce, heighten or lower a space. In this module, you will have the opportunity to apply this knowledge to your personal colour design needs.
You will learn:
- How to develop interior and exterior colour schemes
- Colour rendering and perspectives
- How to resolve a scheme
Once you’ve completed The Colour Course, expect to get all the tools you need to become a colour master - a certificate of completion from Debbie Abercombie’s official program included.
MODULE 1:
Colour Manipulation
Discover the basics of colour theory, colour harmony and the psychology of colour — all essential elements to help identify your or your client’s colour preferences.
You will learn:
- How colours interact and affect each other
- How you can manipulate colours effectively
- How to detect and tweak hue, tints, and tones
- How to utilise different colour combinations for your own or others' environments
MODULE 4:
Colour Schemes Interior and Exterior
Identify the right colour solutions for different interior and exterior projects.
Learn how to use colour and tone to alter perspective and understand which colours enlarge or reduce, heighten or lower a space. In this module, you will have the opportunity to apply this knowledge to your personal colour design needs.
You will learn:
- How to develop interior and exterior colour schemes
- Colour rendering and perspectives
- How to resolve a scheme
Get All The Tools You Need to Become A Colour Master
Create Your Own Colour Palette
It’s important to decide the right colors based on your or your clients’ preference. The Colour Course will show you how to manipulate all the colour elements (hue, tone, tint, etc) to develop the perfect colour palette for your project.
Alter Perspectives & Create Different Textures
You’ll learn how to use colour and tone to alter perspective and understand which colours enlarge or reduce, heighten or lower a space. Get better insight into all the essential elements of a colour design brief to deliver the result the client wants.
Be Certified A Colour Master
Once you finished the course, you’ll receive a certification that shows you have a deep understanding of how colour works. You can add this certificate to your resumé or website to boost your credibility as a creative.
Get All The Tools You Need to Become A Colour Master
Create Your Own Colour Palette
It’s important to decide the right colors based on your or your clients’ preference. The Colour Course will show you how to manipulate all the colour elements (hue, tone, tint, etc) to develop the perfect colour palette for your project.
Predict Colour Trends
Identifying future colour trends lets you plan the direction of your design. This course will show how colour forecasting works and pick the best colours to evoke certain feelings and emotions.
Alter Perspectives & Create Different Textures
You’ll learn how to use colour and tone to alter perspective and understand which colours enlarge or reduce, heighten or lower a space. Get better insight into all the essential elements of a colour design brief to deliver the result the client wants.
Be Certified A Colour Master
Once you finished the course, you’ll receive a certification that shows you have a deep understanding of how colour works. You can add this certificate to your resumé or website to boost your credibility as a creative.
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Who is this for?
This course is ideal for interior, fashion & graphic designers, architects, painters & suppliers, and makeup artists. Basically, anyone in the industry or studying to be.
If you are doing a new home build, renovation or redecorating, this course will also be perfect for you.
Benefits of Taking Debbie’s Colour Course
Create Your Own Colour Palette
Decide the right colours based on your or your clients’ preference. The Colour Course will show you how to manipulate all the colour elements imaginable (hue, tone, tint and more) to develop the perfect colour palette for your project.
Alter Perspectives & Create Different Textures
Learn how to use colour and tone to alter perspectives and understand which colours enlarge or reduce, heighten or lower a space. Get better insight into all the essential elements of a colour design brief to deliver the result your client wants.
Be Certified As a Colour Master
Finish the course and receive a certification vouching for your deep understanding of how colour works. You can add this certificate to your resumé or website to boost your credibility as a creative or design professional.
ABOUT DEBBIE
Before being one of the most acclaimed and acknowledged interior designers for residential, commercial, and marine space in New Zealand, Debbie started her career in the world of design as a fashion designer and a tutor on interior design at the Wellington Polytechnic.
Among the highlights of her longstanding career as a colour specialist includes earning the Resene Lifetime Achievement Award in 2018 at the Resene Total Colour Awards.
Today, Debbie runs a private practice from her studio in Auckland’s North Shore, bringing her strong passion for colour and unique design perspective to her clients across Auckland.
“Both my husband and I found Debbie very easy to deal with. She listened to what we wanted, and nothing was too much trouble. I liked how she was able to come up with the whole package – everybody who comes around loves the result.”
- Sue McAleese, The Colour Course alumna
Who is this for?
The Colour Course is ideal for interior, fashion & graphic designers, architects, painters & suppliers, makeup artists — basically, any creative professionals or studying to be one.
Also, if you are doing a new home design, renovation or redecorating, this course will be perfect for you.
ABOUT DEBBIE
Hi there!
I was originally a fashion designer and lecturer on interior design at the Wellington Polytechnic. Now, I work as one of New Zealand’s foremost interior designers for residential, commercial and marine spaces.
Many people in my industry call me a “colour whiz.” In 2018, I received the Resene Lifetime Achievement Award at the Resene Total Colour Awards.
I run a private practice from my studio in Campbell’s Bay on Auckland’s North Shore. But I always bring my strong passion for colour and unique design perspectives to my clients across Auckland.
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