In Washington I have met many lovely woman but few who radiate warmth and grace the way Pat Skantz does.
Always quick with a smile from beneath one of her signature hats she lights up any room.
Pat is always perfectly put together but today her bright pink suit, print hat and matching wrap along with burgundy [...]
The wonderful thing about working with smart, creative people is that they are a great source of inspiration. As usual Julie finds the best products and I’m stealing this one for my own color inspiration for today.
It come from a post Julie wrote today on creating a December fete where the mood is festive- yet [...]
I opened up my email to find this absolutely adorable group of characters on an ad for Licensed Products at Printsource in January. The artwork is by Carolyn Gavin and it simply made me smile.
I like the combination of colors she chose and decided to take a closer look at the palette that has [...]
Actually completely inspired but loved the play on words because today’s color scheme inspiration comes from my friend and CMG colleague Paul Half and his blog Half2Know.
I took a section of his blog and created the color palette shown below. I think the colors work great for his blog header but couldn’t you just image [...]
I have to admit I was a Tall Bold gal for a long time and would drive across town to my local Starbucks rather than risk a lousy cup of coffee somewhere else. When Caribou Coffee opened a store within walking distance of my house however all of that changed.
Yes the coffee is great [...]
“Since the appearance of impressionism, the official salons, which used to be brown, have become blue, green and red…”
Claude Monet
How Starbucks is using a special brown logo to evoke the chain’s beginnings and restore some goodwill for the brand
The new old logo: Starbucks is temporarily using a sanitized version of its original branding on new packaging.
Brown is certainly a color that communicates coffee. So, when you order a cup of the new Pike Place [...]
From the Toronto Star:
Controversial label on one leather sofa sparks international debate and outrage
It’s not often that a packing label prompts an international embarrassment, but there was Toronto, on CNN’s Lou Dobbs Tonight, a city where, viewers were told, a dark brown leather couch was being marketed as “nigger-brown.”
