Three Takes on the Color of the Year

We’ve been hearing quite a bit about the Color of the Year in the last couple of weeks and while there is not one official organization that bestows this honor on a single hue several well recognized companies that are involved with color each name and create a lot of buzz around a ‘Color of [...] Read more »

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The Pink & Blue Project

In 2007 I had an opportunity to appear on CBS Sunday Morning in a segment called In the Pink.  The show aired just before Valentine’s Day so was focused on the color pink but of all the things I shared the point they seemed to find most interesting was the fact that  the commonly accepted [...] Read more »

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Color of the Year: Turquoise

Pantone just announced the color of the year for 2010: PMS 15-5519 Turquoise, an inviting, luminous hue. Here is what Leatrice Eiseman, executive director of the Pantone Color Institute® has to say about this year’s color of the year Read more »

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A Blue Way Of Thinking

Colors and personality are a funny thing. You may love a particular color for one purpose in your life, but find it completely inappropriate for another.  You may stroll about town happily in a cherry red coat but the thought of breaking bread in a crimson room makes you itchy- a bedroom dressed in layer [...] Read more »

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Fresh Combinations: blue, green and fleshy pales

pillows and fabrics from Calico Corners The addition of fleshy golds and fresh greens warms up classic blue and white in home, in fashion- add in a touch of dingy gray, coal black and metallics ( either gold or silver would work) and you’ve got a look that’s totally futuristic boho. Diane Von Furstenberg Resort [...] Read more »

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