Do you want to become a Colour Consultant?
IDI's Specialisation Course in Colour Consultant is a training course that, through specific teaching, will enable you to learn a series of design specifications that can be applied to various sectors and uses: from fashion textiles to furniture, cosmetics and the transportation sector
Nowadays, all Style, Product, but also commercial and by extension all company departments, cannot do without the varied concept of colour, thus collaborating with the figure of the Colour Consultant.
Colours are vehicles of codes, taboos and prejudices and therefore influence so
so much our com-portment, our language, our imagery, our desires, our purchases. The grammar of colour, which reveals colours to us as not innocent, contaminated as they are by emotions, sensations and meanings, conscious and unconscious, makes them speak a multiform language that is constantly evolving. A language that if known and deciphered, when applied with the appropriate wisdom, can bring high added value to any project from interior to fashion design to any other design field. The Specialisation Course in Colour Consultant provides useful notions to become connoisseurs of the multifaceted world of colour, acquiring skills that can be spent in changing design fields.
The Specialisation Course in Colour Consultant is aimed at designers, architects, home stagers, fashion stylists, interior designers, graphic designers... and all enthusiasts who want to acquire skills in this field.
'- General concepts of both objective and subjective colour
- Usage names
- Chromopsychology (interiority)
- Technological Colour (new discoveries, also 'sustainable')
- Colour Visionary (translation from emotion into idea)
- Professional Colour
General Introduction and History of Colour
Definition and importance of colour in everyday life
Relationship between colour, emotion and perception
Defining a historical era or cultural movement through colour: epochal colours
Functions and symbolism of colour in different cultures
Objective, subjective and visionary colour
Technological and Industrial Colour
Colour Properties and Colour Gammas
Hue, saturation, brightness
The psychology of colour
What are Colour Ranges
Chromatic circle theory
Objective vision of Colour
Physical and chemical properties of colour
Light and colour perception - light and shadow theory
Difference between pigment and light colour
Into the Colour
Genetic Colours, Emotional Colours
Functional /Syntactic Colours
Synaesthetic colours - the relationship with the 5 senses
Iridescent Colours, Salient Colours, Metallic Colours
Application Tests and Glossaries for in-depth knowledge of the world of colour
Colour Coding and Colour Systems
  Colorimetry, Coding Technologies and Practical Applications
Introduction to Colorimetry: the science of colour measurement
Colour Coding Systems: RGB, CMYK, HSL, Pantone, NCS...
Focus on the use of the NCS System in Interior Design and Fashion
Colour Coding in Digital Design and Industry
Colour Management Software - Encycolorpedia
Colour Chords
Creating harmonic colour schemes: single-colour, two-colour, three-colour or multi-colour
The art of combining colours to achieve the desired effect
Advanced colour combination techniques: colour harmony, contrast and saturation
Colour Variation Projects
How to decline the same product in different colour versions
Case studies of colour variants in design, fashion and furniture
Practical Applications of Colour in Different Sectors
  Colour in Interior Design
Techniques for applying colour in residential and commercial environments.
How to choose the colour palette for specific rooms and spaces.
Colour and lighting: light and shadow effects on environments.
  Colour in Fashion and Fashion Design
How to choose and combine colours for clothing collections.
Studying colour trends in the fashion industry
Creating colour palettes for seasons and special occasions.
  Colour in Advertising and Marketing
Colour and the psychology of persuasion in advertising.
Analysis of the use of colour in advertising, packaging and promotions.
The impact of colour on purchasing decisions
Colour and Sustainability
Eco-friendly materials, natural paints, sustainable fabrics
Iconic colour and the evolution of chromopsychological discourse
Concepts and tests
Communicating Colour in the Project
Analysis and research, inspiration
The scheme - colour and trend panel
Designing a Moodboard. exploration of colours, materials, textures and shapes
Digital tools and apps for colour designers
The Colour Consultant is a professional figure who can work in the fashion, design, architecture, furnishing, communication... sector, either freelance or within companies that, in their design development, increasingly make use of the creative input of the professional who brings value to the product. The work of the Colour Consultant complements that of the architect or designer with whom work is developed through symbiotic collaboration.
The Colour Consultant can carry out more specific activities, following in particular the work of the "variantist" (he who, through colour, code and sign, knows how to decline a fabric, a garment, an object in the different chromatic versions) or of the "variantist arranger" (he who, with varying degrees of technical knowledge and creative inclination, translates the original idea into concrete proposals)
Phase 1: Lessons preparatory to the classroom phase (textbooks and e-learning platform);
Phase 2: Theoretical lessons and practical exercises;
Phase 3: Practical Training Project Work;
Possibility of financing the registration fee
Reworking and updating the CV for dissemination to companies in the sector at the end of the national training course.
Classroom phase certificate
Certificate of project work
The colour consultant is a professional figure specialised in the use and analysis of colours, with the task of guiding colour choices in various fields, such as fashion, design, interior design, advertising, and branding. His expertise focuses on the psychological and visual interpretation of colour, as well as trends and the combination of colours to create desired visual impacts.
Online dal 13 ottobre 2026 al 19 gennaio 2027
Sviluppo Europa s.r.l.
Via Albricci, 9 - 20122 Milan
P.I. 10282190965
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