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.
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.