As many of you might recall I have had the good fortune to present at the House Beautiful Color Institute this year, which recently made its way to San Francisco.
The opening event included magazine editor Stephen Drucker interviewing guest designers Suzanne Tucker and Paul Vincent Wiseman a la “Inside the Actor’s Studio”. I always enjoy this part of the morning session as I love to hear how other creative people think about color.
On Saturday the San Francisco Chronicle had a nice wrap-up of the Color Institute event.
An excerpt from the article:
Tucker and Wiseman surprised Drucker by declaring their favorite color to be yellow – “it’s beautiful with contemporary, with metallics, with antiques, and it’s very flattering,” said Tucker, who takes into consideration her clients’ coloring when choosing paints.
Drucker, who has taken the Color Institute to other cities, declared that: “No one in Chicago would say yellow is their favorite. They don’t call this the Golden State for nothing.”
Both designers found blue to be difficult to work with. A seminar later in the day given by color expert Kate Smith, who advises companies on what colors to use for their products, coincidentally revealed why that might be.
Paint a room blue, she said, and someone who walks in will feel it’s 10 degrees cooler than it is. But blue (top color for toothbrushes) has many moods. Smith outlined seven, starting with the tranquil-calming-restful mood of spa blues, to the contemplative-thoughtful-spiritual mood created by blue as an accent for complex neutrals (those neutrals not so easily identified as a green or a gray or a beige), on up to the playful-whimsical-imaginative mood by using a bright blue with other bright colors of similar value.
This reporter sure knows how to grab some key ideas, facts and phrases and pack them into an article. (Thanks for the nice write up of my presentation, Susan.)
Read the full article on SFGate…
