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Colour in urban places: A case study of Leicester City Football Club blue
Author(s) -
Xu Jie
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
color research and application
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.393
H-Index - 62
eISSN - 1520-6378
pISSN - 0361-2317
DOI - 10.1002/col.22378
Subject(s) - club , football , football club , agency (philosophy) , loyalty , mediation , identity (music) , ethnic group , meaning (existential) , sociology , urban culture , advertising , media studies , aesthetics , history , art , political science , psychology , social science , anthropology , law , business , archaeology , medicine , anatomy , psychotherapist
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.