For my presentation at last week’s Color Marketing Group’s International Forecasting Summit I explained the drivers and influence of the trends I am seeing. One of my favorites was the use of design to surprise and delight. Using color to delight and surprise isn’t a new idea (Is anything really new?) but what is different [...] Read more »
You Sexy Beets
The Office’s Dwight Schrute is famous for farming them, President Obama has publicly snubbed them and Napoleon set a course to rule the world by insisting that French farmers grow them (to cultivate their own sugar supply that is). The Beet. The veggie that stains your hands and puts the blush in Borscht. I’ll be [...] Read more »
Colors Are Sweet in Chicago
Compulsions can be a funny thing. Some people have a weakness for chocolate. For others, it’s cars. But for me, it’s color. Be it in nature, design, food, I often find myself drawn more to the aesthetic appeal than the actual object. But that notion was challenged as I found myself torn between two loves: [...] Read more »
Color inspiration: MMMMacaroons
There is the sweetest French pastry shop in my neighborhood called Madeleine (named after our favorite mademoiselle I presume)…. On Saturdays I treat myself to a latte and pan au chocolat. While the barista with the thick French accent prepares the coffee I always stare at the trays of macaroons. Authentic macaroons in delightful flavors [...] Read more »
An Enchanted White Tea
As soon as the temperature drops below 50 her in New York I become an obsessed tea drinker… my current favorite blend for winter 08/09 is Yerba Mate (not because I’m some tea snob who knows anything it’s just that I’m counting on it’s label’s promise to ‘provide mental clarity, sustain physical energy and promote [...] Read more »
