DESIGN PROCESS Creating a livable and workable space is a challenge that can be met successfully with qualified professional guidance. Knowing the elements and principles of the design process for specific built environments will simplify the project and save both time and money. Knowing how to use functional color will enhance the design vision. Understanding the components of environmental psychology for specific spaces will eliminate the guess work in developing the master plan: the home you love to be in, the office you love to work in, and a retail environment that generates sales. COLOR MATTERS Color is not just a matter of decoration. "Color, and human reaction to color, includes much more than understanding aesthetic trends. The subject of color can be approached from many different perspectives and disciplines that at first glance may seem unrelated. Color theory, technology, biology, philosophy, psychology, sociology and art are all aspects of the nature of color. In the human experience of color, all of these disciplines are interrelated, and from the standpoint of designing the man-made environment, they are all involved." IACC-NA