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Colour in urban places: A case study of Leicester City Football Club blue

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posted on 2019-06-21, 12:24 authored by Johnny Xu
By communicating an integrated story, the Leicester City Football Club blue inherits and persists the history and legacy of the football club, which further provides a stable and consistent meaning for the local sports culture. Colour as a medium and agency creates an intimacy and loyalty between the different ethnic and social groups across local, regional, and global contexts. The case study demonstrated that colour could give place identity through branding practice, identity mediation, and visual culture formation. The process reflected that economic and cultural force had a large impact on place‐making, and could be the decisive influence upon colour symbolism.

History

School

  • The Arts, English and Drama

Department

  • Arts

Published in

Color Research & Application

Volume

44

Issue

4

Pages

613 - 621

Citation

XU, J., 2019. Colour in urban places: A case study of Leicester City Football Club blue. Color Research and Application, 44 (4), pp.613-621.

Publisher

© Wiley

Version

  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

Publisher statement

This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: XU, J., 2019. Colour in urban places: A case study of Leicester City Football Club blue. Color Research and Application, 44 (4), pp.613-621, which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1002/col.22378. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Use of Self-Archived Versions.

Acceptance date

2019-03-17

Publication date

2019-04-11

Copyright date

2019

ISSN

0361-2317

eISSN

1520-6378

Language

  • en