Julia Begbie
I have two jobs: I am both an interior designer and a director of the KLC School of Design, I have many years' experience of teaching colour theory and applying this understanding in practice.
Location London, England
Activity
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Julia Begbie replied to Barbara C
And we'd love to see you! I hope we'll be back again soon, Barbara, look out for us, and have fun on FutureLearn - what a great place.
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Julia Begbie replied to Debbie Rose
Just posted - apologies for the delay. I did notify in advance that it would be late, but I don't think I communicated this very clearly.
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Julia Begbie replied to Mary Hawking
Just posted - with apologies for the delay Mary!
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Julia Begbie replied to KE D
Just posted Kay - I did notify that this would go up by noon (GMT) today, sorry if you missed that, I'm afraid that life intervened and cut me off the internet yesterday!
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It is a great pleasure, Miriam - so pleased you liked it and lovely to see you.
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Hi Mags, in her designs for the Hospital Club (a private members' club in London) designer Suzy Hoodless used decoupage wallpaper in the Bellini Bar. I was many layers of different wallpapers interwoven, and with some cut out images pasted on top. It was incredibly powerful, graphically, great for a commercial space but perhaps a bit dominant to have at...
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Hi Barbara - nice to see you again! You can see Marianne's house on her website: http://mapesburyroad.com/
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Julia Begbie replied to Laura Piercy
Hi Evelyn, it sounds like you have made it work? Please see my note above about saving the palette, copied here too:
...I am not sure of your specific problems but you could use screen shots to save information like this. I have a 'snipping tool' on my pc (easily found via the computer's search function) that I can drag over any part of the screen I want...
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Julia Begbie replied to Cheryl Arney
I am not sure of your specific problems but you could use screen shots to save information like this. I have a 'snipping tool' on my pc (easily found via the computer's search function) that I can drag over any part of the screen I want to turn into an image, alternatively you could use Ctrl and PrtSc (to copy the current screen view), pasting the resultant...
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Hi Eduardo
Please can you try again? It should be there now. With apologies.
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Julia Begbie made a comment
Hello all
Many thanks for bringing the captioning issue to our attention...I think that I have fixed it, but do let me know if the problem persists.
My error - with apologies!
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Julia Begbie replied to Norman Still
Thank you Norman, we have learned lots putting the course together too - we appreciate the feedback.
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Julia Begbie replied to Trina Grant
Thank you Trina. I hope you get on well with Padlet - it can be a bit frustrating but it is early days for huge social interaction online and I'm afraid there are no perfect solutions. I am so impressed with the FutureLearn platform from the teaching side - and every week they add a new improvement. All very impressive, but still early days! :-)
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Julia Begbie replied to Steve Marshall
Hi Steve, we aren't selling anything on this course. We hope that if you like our material and you are planning a career in interior design or garden design you might consider KLC. But that's it. Time Inc. magazines helped us by providing many of our colourful images - it is hard to find good photos that you can use with impunity, and they (via Livingetc)...
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Julia Begbie replied to Evelyn Davis
We'd love to see the photo Evelyn, although you describe it very well!
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Julia Begbie replied to Christine Burgmer
Lovely colours, thank you Christine.
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Julia Begbie replied to Iris Landa
We are very grateful that you brought it to our attention, thank you Iris. Very pertinent for this course. I hope your work continues...
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Julia Begbie replied to Alvaro Fdez.
Thank you Alvaro - that's a great poster! Thank you for bringing it to our attention.
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On the subject of colour blindness, have you seen Enchroma glasses, Mike? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2_vq7IOsog
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Julia Begbie replied to Lyn Haigh
It doesn't matter at all, Lyn, you will still get lots from this course. Enjoy!
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Julia Begbie made a comment
Good morning everyone! Very pleased to meet you. I'll be following your progress and looking out for questions, as will my colleague Morwenna. My main job is to provide a round up at the end of each week. I look forward to learning about colour from you too!
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Julia Begbie replied to Shelli Rice
Not yet, Shelli, but there have been a number of requests. Maybe in the future, keep your eyes peeled.
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Julia Begbie replied to Jonathan Holloway
Thanks Barbara - I'll read the article.
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interesting point, thank you Nigel.
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Julia Begbie replied to Jonathan Holloway
Good question - The description of fully-participating learners is: 'those who have completed at least 50% of the available steps on a course. On courses containing tests, they must also complete them.'
I am not sure if this means that the learner must have clicked 'mark as complete', or if the system is merely satisfied that course materials have been...
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Thank you Jayne, I love the coloured lights!
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Hi both. I really appreciate the feedback about Padlet and do understand.
FutureLearn is incredibly fastidious about using external resources, they must be accessible to all, ideally they are suited to phones, tablets and computers: FutureLearn has many very sensible criteria. As you can imagine, the FutureLearn team is also very innovative, and aware of...
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Julia Begbie replied to Jonathan Holloway
Hello all. there are fascinating statistics behind these courses and I have a lovely dashboard to view them on :-)
We have enrolled 16350 learners now (a few have joined during the course) however only 2,665 made it past the halfway mark (so far!). 2,859 learners have posted at least one comment. Most MOOC courses have about at 10% completion rate - we...
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Julia Begbie replied to Irene Wyndham
Thanks both, hope our paths cross again.
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Julia Begbie replied to Sue Webster
How interesting Sue! These colours say 'Wimbledon tennis' to me.
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Julia Begbie replied to Irene Wyndham
Hi Irene - for now we will run this course again in February next year. In the future we hope to deliver additional courses on FutureLearn, but my team did take about 4 months off other activities to build this course, so I may need to earn my keep at the school for a bit first. Any suggestions what course two would be? By the way, thank you so much for you...
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Interesting point Fiona! I wonder if what we call a colour changes how we feel about it?
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Thank you Ann - well said, I like your 'colours of the rainbow' choice.
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Julia Begbie replied to Pam Lines
We run again in February - come back and try again!
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Julia Begbie replied to Liz Pardey
Thank you, Liz, that is a very interesting suggestion!
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Julia Begbie replied to Barbara C
Thank you Barbara, and thank you for your activity on this course. It has been wonderful reading your comments, and I have enjoyed how inclusive the comments have been, so encouraging to anyone who wants to join in. Thank you again, and I hope we'll see you on other KLC courses on this platform in due course. No firm plans yet, but we'd love to do more......
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Julia Begbie replied to Isobel Linder
The course runs again next February! :-)
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Julia Begbie replied to Jonathan Holloway
Thank you Jonathan, I hope it is ok to mention this in this week's round up?
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Julia Begbie replied to Anne Brien
I do wish we could extend this course, Anne, so that learners could show us all the wonderful creative output promised in the last few weeks. We are running the course again in February, and I might suggest that people rejoin at this time to show us what this first run of The Power of Colour led to.
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Julia Begbie replied to Nigel Hollingworth
Hi Nigel - just what I have been asking myself! This is called the Duochrome test and it relates to the focal length of different colours within the eye. I believe - and I could be massively wrong here - that red and green light converges to form the clearest image at different focal lengths, and what the optician is trying to do is provide you with a lens...
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Julia Begbie replied to Patsy McAllister
Thank you Patsy, I haven't come across Howard Hodgkin before and I agree, his work is very inspirational - deceptively simple!
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Julia Begbie replied to Maggie Grigg
She may find that on-screen translation is offered to her if she opens the original link? Google sometimes offers to translate foreign pages for you as an option, top right on the screen. If not, there is Google translate :-)
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Julia Begbie replied to Maxine Songaila
Thank you, Maxine, the palette looks like it could be a Colombian blanket!
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I think that Marianne has hung floral wallpaper, then cut out the floral motifs from additional, identical paper, and roughly pasted these on top to create a 3D effect.
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Julia Begbie replied to linda kelbrick
Or blacken them and make your bedroom a 'boudoir'!
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Julia Begbie replied to Len Morgan
You can change the colour extractions settings Len, and find up to 25 colours.
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Julia Begbie replied to Marge Anderson
Hi Marge, if you Google 'RGB to Pantone converter' you'll find tools online that will allow you to find a close approximation of your chosen RGB colour as a Pantone reference.
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Julia Begbie replied to Jane Toy
Hi Jane, I find the quickest method is to open an image in PowerPoint - many computers have Microsoft Office loaded.
Once you have your photo on a PowerPoint slide, click on the photo to make it 'live', i.e. dots appear in the corners. In my version of PowerPoint this reveals a tab at the top called 'Picture Tools', click on this and find 'compress...
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Julia Begbie replied to Nicky Chan
Pleasure Nicky! It was such a delight to find it. Thank you for your wonderful efforts.
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Does this help:
https://about.futurelearn.com/about/faq/social-media-tips/#padlet
We are going to add a page to the Padlet board to try to free it up a bit.
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In case this helps: https://about.futurelearn.com/about/faq/social-media-tips/#padlet
We are going to add a page to the board to see if this frees it up a bit.
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Julia Begbie made a comment
Advice, in case anyone needs it, on using Padlet:
https://about.futurelearn.com/about/faq/social-media-tips/#padletWe are adding pages to this Padlet board to try to speed it up! Thank you for your patience.
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Julia Begbie replied to Trevor Judd
Hi Trevor, can you
1. take a screen shot and crop it in PowerPoint (shift and 'print screen')
2. use a 'snipping tool' (do a search on your system for this if you don't regularly use it) and drag a marquee over the image.
3. Or, if you are on a Mac you could press 'cmd' or apple key, with shift and '4' (all at the same time) to create a marquee tool... -
Hi all - does using a different browser work?
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Julia Begbie replied to Michelle Clacher
Good point Michelle! Tom Brown - our interviewee in week 4 - talks quite a bit about hierarchy of colour in the garden. Look out for this.
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Yes Lisa - marvellous stuff! https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2010/nov/17/bindu-shards-james-turrell-gagosian. Thank you for introducing!
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Excellent point Jane! I'll try to mention James Turrell next week - most notably https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2010/nov/17/bindu-shards-james-turrell-gagosian - I really wanted to build a virtual reality James Turrell-style room for this course, but I think I need 2020 computers for this! Our 2016 servers would melt!
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If you are working on a computer (rather than a smartphone) the Futurelearn material itself contains a link (try step 2.12 to see if it works when you click on the link). If you are doing the course on a smartphone, when you click on the link on step 2.12 you will probably be offered the app download there and then. If not, find more information here...
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These were in course emails (before the course started), but not in the course itself. You haven't missed out - each step that requires images will ask you again. Thank you for raising this point!
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Julia Begbie replied to Shelli Rice
You should also consider the CRI (colour rendering index) score of a product. This measures how successfully a lamp illuminates the visible colour spectrum. Tungsten and halogen both score perfect '100' on this measurement but most LED falls far short at 80, maybe. The nearer an LED product gets to 100 the more expensive it gets. This explains why some...
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Julia Begbie replied to Shelli Rice
You and I have a shared interest, Shelli. Colour temperature in lighting is a fascinating study, and it is relevant to our discussions here. Thank you for bringing it up!
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Julia Begbie replied to Barbara C
Interesting comment, Barbara. Some of our other experts also mentioned political, economic and social factors as driving colour trends. It would be interesting to map paint sales (by colour) to GDP, prevailing political bias, or similar! Something for another course, perhaps :-)
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You can use that page as part of exercises on the course, Jenni.
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Julia Begbie replied to Jonathan Holloway
Really interesting! Thank you Jonathan.
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Julia Begbie replied to Colleen Rourke
A very good reference, Indy, thank you.
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Julia Begbie replied to Julia Begbie
Absolutely, Teresa! But even with a few hundred comments per step, I'm afraid we still can't personally reply to everyone - but we do try to read everything!
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Julia Begbie replied to Laura Polek
Hi all, Padlet is a site that lets you share pictures and comments. Wherever we use it it is built into the course, and instructions will be provided. Don't worry about technology - you can do this course without leaving FutureLearn or using any other systems or hardware. You don't have to 'do' the Padlet steps, but make sure you look at them (click the...
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Julia Begbie replied to Yoko Kawazoe
Hello - please don't worry about Padlet, most of this course is plain vanilla, and even if you don't post to the interactive parts of the programme make sure you look at the step, click on the link, and see what your peers have posted. That's really easy to do. By 'skipping' and not looking you might just miss seeing some of the best bits. Hope to see you...
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Julia Begbie replied to Suzanne S.
Nothing to worry about - very easy to use and with helpful direction provided. I think you will enjoy seeing your peers' posts from all over the world - it's the part of the course I am most looking forward to!
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Julia Begbie replied to Kathryn Kutner
Thank you Kathryn and Susan - we are looking forward to seeing your ideas!
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Julia Begbie replied to Marija Tasev
All will be explained - it is very simple!
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Julia Begbie replied to Paula Simpson
Oh! Photos please Paula in week 2!
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Julia Begbie replied to alexander lee
Hi Alexander - KLC is a design school specialising in interior and garden design, so if the course has a bias it will be towards interior design mostly. We will be talking about colour pretty much exclusively and not so much on the practicalities of making colour in any one discipline. I do hope you enjoy our material - and don't worry about smartphones or...
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Julia Begbie replied to Carole Lucas
Don't worry! There is lots of material that just runs with a click :-)
When you get to the participation parts of the course there are clear instructions included. Have a look at the learners' work as it builds - it will be an important part of the course materials. And if you do join in, you will have advanced your digital skills. Sometimes when you...
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Julia Begbie replied to Astrid Jelinek
Hello Astrid and Csilla - look out for the article from Natalie Barker (week 4). I have never met someone so well put-together. Natalie also plans her outfits meticulously. She even bought colour-coordinated sippy-cups for her morning coffee so she doesn't have to walk around with a branded cup that doesn't match her clothes.
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Julia Begbie replied to Colin Armstrong
Hi Colin - we will be looking at human vision, however as a biologist I'm afraid we probably won't tell you anything you don't already know! I don't know where you are based, but have you seen this exhibition at London's Natural History Museum? http://www.nhm.ac.uk/visit/exhibitions/colour-and-vision-exhibition.html - you might find it interesting.
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Julia Begbie made a comment
Good morning everyone! It is wonderful to read your comments this morning.
I have just checked and see we now have 12,000+ students with almost every country in the world represented - very exciting! Unfortunately 12,000 students means that we can't reply to each of you individually - but we are reading everything.
Welcome, and we hope you really...
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Julia Begbie made a comment
Good morning! This is a real-time, live welcome to the course. We are so looking forward to spending the next 4 weeks with you all!
