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Inter-Society Color Council News Number 362 July/August 1996 N E FROM THE PRESIDENT'S DESK '/r ~ould like to ~ egi~ by thanking Hugh Fairman and Danny ,D R1ch for the f1ne JOb they did in organizing this year's Annual Meeting at the Doubletree Guest Suites in Orlando, From The President's Desk ....................................... 1 FL. Both the ISCC meeting and the Symposium provided lots of interesting presentations and time to get together with Report-ISCC 65th Annual fv\eeting ........................... 2 colleagues for discussion and fun. Most of the rest of this newsletter is devoted to reports on various activities rel ated to Macbeth Award ..................................................... 10 the Annual Meeting. I would also like to take this oppotunity to thank the New ISCC Officers .............................................. ... 13 outgoing Board members and to welcome the new Directors. Completing their terms on the Board of Directors are Gary Obituary ................................................................ 14 Beebe, Joseph Campbell, and Ro bert Marcus. Speaking for all the officers, I want to say that we appreciate all that they Report-ISCC Committee 50 ............. ....................... 15 have done. Joe organized the instrument displays at the Annual Meetings for several years, Gary is chair of the 1997 New Members ........... .................... ........................ 15 Annual Meeting, and Bob continues as Publicity Chairman and Chair of the Nickerson Service Award Committee. 1a m Birthday Celebration .............................................. 16 happy to be able to report that they will continue to be active in the ISCC community. In This Issue of CR&A ............................................. 17 This spring's elections bring us three new Directors. Serving until 1999, are Helen Epps from the University of Letter of Appreciation ........ .. ................................... 18 Georgia, James Keiser from E. I. DuPont, and Jack Ladson from BYK-Ga rdner. Welcome, again speaking for the Officers RIT Lab Expansion .................................................. 18 and rest of the Board, we appreciate their willingness to serve. For those who want to know more about our new News From Member Bodies & Other News ............ 19 Directors, biographical sketches of th ese Diredors were SPE, AATCC, HFES, CAUS, CMG, FSCT, DCC, AIC published in Issue 359, (Jan/ Feb 1996) of the Newsletter . The ISCC is builtthrough the contributions of its members. Book reviews ................................ ... ...................... 25 At this Annual Meeting, Joanne Zwinkels, Rich Riffel, and Wade Thompson completed thair terms as Chair of the Member Application Confusion .................... ......... 27 Interest Groups I, II, and Ill respectively. The Chairmanships were turned over to Michael Brill, Bill Tuting, and Shashi ISCC Office Hours .................................................. 27 Caan. At each of the Interest Groups an announcementwas made looking for new Co-Chairs. We can report that at this ISCC Office closed for a week ................................ 28 time, Helen Epps will become the Co-Chair of Interest Group I, and Arnold Service is taking on the Co-Chairmanship of Gentle Reminder .................................................... 28 Interest Group II. However, we are still looking for someonJ! who would like to serve as a Co-Chair for Interest Group Ill Calendar ................................................................ 28 on Art, Design, and Psychology. Anyone wi IIi ng to volunteer, please contact Shashi Caan, Richard Harold (Coordinator of Officers, Directors, ............. ........................ Back Page Member Bodies, Sustaining Members Interest Grou ps), or me. Other new Coml"': ittee Chairs are Paula Alessi for Bylaws, Bill Vogel for Contributed Papers, and Roy Berns for Macbeth Award Committee. Anyone who would like to take a more (Con ti n ued~) ISCC NEWS NO. 362 2 JULY/AUGUST 1996 active role in the organization, just Stahdards and Their Use in Calibration same color language until the final contact me. and Verification. Ladson, Chairman, product shows otherwise. The color of We continue to make progress in stated the significant progress has been the product is not what the costumer communications. Cynthia Sturke, our made since the last meeting. The wanted. The result is that what the new Office Manager, helped at the definition of the project was accepted designer said, was interpreted registration at the Annual Meeting. I by the ISCC Board of Directors. The differently by production. The final hope that many of you had the Board members felt that Technical speaker, M s Shash i Caan, spoke opportunity to meet her in person. Report 89-1 needed a revision. Ladson representeing Interest Group Ill, Art Cynthia is pleased to report that the volunteered to Chair the new committee Design and Psychology. A special ISCC office fax is now working. Th e that will update the Techni ca l Report feature of the meeting was two number is 703/318-0514. Also, in the month of May, ou r own ISCC web page officially went on line. The address is HTIP://WWW.ISCC.ORG. A variety of information can be found on the page including a calender of events, meeting schedules, list of member Societies, lists of Sustaining Members, and highlights of the ISCC News. Mail tags are available so that people can communicate with the ISCC office, Board of Directors, and the Web Page Editor for such things as address changes and requests for information. Come visit the ISCC Web site. Also, those companies (or individuals) interested in becoming Sustaining Members, please contact Cynthia at the office. Ellen C. Ca rter President o( ISCC Dr. Michael Brill receiving the Macbeth Award From Dr. Ellen Carter ANNUAL " 65TH 89-1. The project will deal with the crossword puzzles developed by Hugh available material standards and Fairman from the vocabularies of MEETING OF. ISCC methods to ca librate the instruments. Interest Groups. A section of the report w ill define terms The next meeting was the Individual l'i'lr'he 65'h Annual M eeting of ISCC and include an up-to-date bibliography. Member Group (IMG) presided by the ~his year was a joint meeting with Lad son is looking for volunteers for the Chairman jim Cave, BASF). A new ASTM Committee E-12 on Appearance. Committee. · member voting delegate, Mr. Alan On May 5 and 6, the Interest Groups Education Committee, presided over Kravatz was se lected to represent the and ISCC Committees met. They were by Dr. Vivianne Smith, Universi ty of group. He will serve a three year term followed on May 7, by a joint meeting Chicago dealt with the vocabulary of unti 11999, as the voting representative. with ASTM Committee E-12 entitled, color in resea rch, industry and the arts. INTEREST GROUP Ill - Art, Design The Symposium on Measurem ent of There were three speakers, one from and Psychology, was chaired by Prof. Appearance. The Symposium was fol each of the Interest Groups. Dr. Alan Wade Thompson and Ms Shashi Caa n. lowed by ASTM Committee E-12 meet Robertson, National Research Council, The first speaker was Mr. Ri chard ingsonMay8-1 O,on Appearance Mea Canada, introduced many of the basic Stoyles, Milliken & Company. The title surement . scientific color terms and distinguished of his presentation was What's Co lor Roland Connelly, President of ISCC, between the ones that are often Forecasting Got To Do With It? Color welcomed everyone to the Annual confused such as chroma and saturation and design trends are a refl ection of our Meeting of ISCC. He presided over the or brightness and lightness. M r. Ri ch " Life - Thoughts" and combine many first session and introduced the first Riffel, Accuracy Microsensors, from different influences. Some trends are speaker, Jack Ladson. The meetings Interest Group II, ta lked about Industrial unavoidable as they are a direct resul t are reported in the order of their Applications of Color. He presented of utilization of equipment and raw appearan ce. examples from industry of how materials. Others can be cost driven. Project Committee 51, Material everyone thinks that they speak the Economics, high-tech development and ISCC NEWS NO. 362 3 JULY/AUGUST 1996 media saturation also play an important were analyzed in terms of color asymmetric ba lance of hues. Those role. The challange of competing in combination. characteristics of Saikdong color international markets is to redifine the ·The variations of color combination combinations were applied to create concept of "quick response" design were reproduced through the CAD new color combinations for apparel and computer-aided design (CAD) system to apply the results of the first design through CAD simulations. linked directto ma nufacturing. The next paper was Custumers want the best for presented by Dr. Theodore their money and they know H. M. Prudon. The title of his w hat they want. Color paper was Color in History: forcasti ng reflects business Did George Washington See strategic thinking and in a Green? The study of history quickening worl d, influences and preservation of buildings events. Eve nts, technology and artifacts generally sets as advances and environmental one of the goals th e accurate influences are taken into and authentic representation account by The International of the past. What constitutes Colour Authority, who, for accuracy and authenticity is more than 25 years, have much harder to define and expertly forecast the trends 36 understand.