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The website is aimed at designers and anyone interested in learning more about the relationship between colours, cultures and symbolic meanings. Based on research by David McCandless, a London-based designer and creative director, the interface offers a dynamic and playful interaction with the data.

This work does not represent all cultures of the world and is therefore not complete.

Anja Rothenbühler: Colours in Culture, 2025, Basel
anja-rothenbuehler.ch

Concept and design: Anja Rothenbühler
Code: Anja Rothenbühler
Fonts: t1-Korium, Jakarta

This work was created as part of the course “Critical Media Design”.
It was supervised by the lecturer Bérénice Serra


Source: https://informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/colours-in-cultures/
Data and research: David McCandless


FHNW HGK Basel IDCE
University of Applied Sciences
Northwestern Switzerland
Basel Academy of Art and Design
Institute Digital Communication Environments


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