Master’s degree student Chen Liao-hsun (陳廖遜) is aiming to make physical color swatches used in design, fashion and printing obsolete after winning a prestigious design award in the US for an e-swatch device.
Chen, who is studying for a master’s degree in industrial and commercial design at National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, won a bronze medal for his electronic color swatch device at the International Design Excellence Awards on Thursday last week.
The invention could make designers and printers less reliant on books of paper swatches when coordinating colors because it stores and organizes a wide array of color swatch data from different fields, can be updated through a link to the Internet and is portable.
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Emboldened by his award, Chen said that he hoped to patent the invention, find a company to work with and mass produce the product.
He believes that the device is most able to help people in industries that frequently deal with colors by eliminating the aggravation that can arise when using paper color swatches.
Chen’s design, called “Color Elite,” was inspired by his own experience of working with models in which traditional paper color swatches often became discolored during a project or degenerated as a result of humidity.
Color sample books are also sometimes inadequate because they can differ from industry to industry and do not contain a -sufficiently broad range of colors, he said.
According to the inventor, his e-swatch solves many of these problems by saving and organizing color swatches electronically.
It is also able to scan and match colors with a wide selection stored on a database and generate similar tones, thereby offering designers different points of comparison.
The invention also means designers no longer have to carry multiple paper color swatches when they work, Chen said.
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