Kiki’s post about yellow on our Color for Your Home got me thinking about Mimosa, the yellow color that Pantone named 2009 Color of the Year. We are over two thirds of the way through the year and I was wondering if this color of the year embodies the year now that we know what [...] Read more »
Holiday Shoppers Buying Gifts Based on Color
My friends and colleagues, Jill Morton and Leatrice Eiseman comment on color as the is having on holiday sales in an article by Bruce Horovitz in USA TODAY. From the article: In the most economically depressing holiday season in decades, there’s one buzzword — besides cheap — that’s still got game at retail: color. That’s [...] Read more »
Pantone Color of the Year for 2009
PANTONE® announced that they have chosen 14-0848 Mimosa as their color of the year for 2009. In the announcement the color is described as “a warm, engaging yellow.” “The color yellow exemplifies the warmth and nurturing quality of the sun, properties we as humans are naturally drawn to for reassurance,” explains Leatrice Eiseman, executive director [...] Read more »
Obama Blue
When President-elect Barack Obama met with John McCain on Monday to talk teamwork, his tie was blue. When Obama met President George Bush at the White House to talk transition the Monday before that, his tie was blue. Bush’s was too. No news there. But, after a campaign defined by “change,” few political style watchers [...] Read more »
Launching a Career in Color Consulting
So often I am asked by people not only about what I do but how I gained the skills to become a color professional. With a fine arts degree and years of product development, management and marketing behind me I had a great foundation but when I decided to pursue Read more »
