1st Aug. '08 • Category: Destination Color • Tags: beach, Florida, travel
Authored by April Clark
I’m back in NY but thinking of my lovely week in St. Augustine, Florida . My best friend treated me to a shared birthday trip with her family and a friend, where we rented a condo.
My best friend of 23 years Alison (an amazing costume designer for films) and Justin (the fabulous star of Cirque Du Soleil’s La Nouba in Orlando) both to my left. (more…)
30th Apr. '08 • Category: Destination Color • Tags: New Mexico, travel
Authored by Julie Hoylen
I just returned from a long, warm and windy week in Southeastern New Mexico. While there I experienced the thrill of blaring a country music station while driving aimlessly through the desert, being surrounded by the most hummingbirds I’ve ever seen in one place, scoring a zebra print bandanna from the biggest, best Walmart ever- for 92 cents!, eating dinner, surrounded by senior prom couples, at a restaurant where the owner walked around from table to table with a wireless microphone crooning Sinatra, making Mexican tissue paper flowers at a local school carnival, realizing my need to one day own a vintage pickup truck, chocking on the hottest salsa I’ve ever experienced, making some new friends during an unexpected layover in Dallas- and oh yeah, surviving the loudest, craziest dust storm I’ve ever seen!
All in all, another colorful trip out West!
Must own a 1970ish model truck soon… a puppy with the coolest eyes ever- one crystal clear blue, one dark brown
1st Jan. '08 • Category: Destination Color • Tags: iceland, travel
Authored by April Clark
I expected a snowy wonderland…very Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe in Narnia. So I packed furry hats and boots and warm wooly sweaters. I should have packed short sleeves and another bathing suit. The weather in Iceland is known for its unpredictability; unfortunately, I didn’t know it.
12th Dec. '07 • Category: Destination Color • Tags: travel
Authored by Kate Smith
I am so please that CMG featured my article on Marrakech in the Winter 2007 Color Chips. The photos they added look great!
If you’d like to read the article it is available on Sensational Color.
Also you might want to look back at Jaima Brown’s post Blushing Beauty which she wrote shortly after her recent trip to Marrakech.
Another great read is the blog My Marrakesh. Maryam does a wonderful job of giving us a view into an American families quest to build a guest house in Marrakesh. The pictures and writing are both inspirational.
Enjoy the journey to this colorful destination…even if only virtually.
28th Nov. '07 • Category: Destination Color • Tags: art-deco, beach, exterior-color, historic-color, travel
Authored by Kate Smith
As if a few days of breathing salt sea air and sipping champagne weren’t enough to spoil me I had the added pleasure of strolling along Ocean Drive in Miami’s colorful South Beach.
South Beach has the largest concentration of Art Deco buildings anywhere in the world with more than 800 of these gems within a square mile.
Constructed mainly of masonry or stucco, their flat roofs, geometric patterns and rounded motifs give the many small, pastel-colored hotels a distinctly modern look.
Pastel and neutral painted buildings in beige, gray, cream, rose taupe, and butter yellow are accented with brighter pastels in peach, pink, aqua, and green, or with deeper neutrals such as charcoal gray or black.
Both the style and colors signaled a period of renewed optimism and confidence in the U.S. during the post-depression building boom of the 1930s.
Today the Art Deco treasures are being preserved and some newer buildings that complement the distinctive architecture of the area have been allowed to go up.
The show doesn’t stop when the sun goes down on this historic district. Neon and colored lights beckon in red, white, orange, blue and gold adding to the festive atmosphere of this international hot spot.
Can you blame me for not coming back to work until today?
29th Aug. '07 • Category: Destination Color • Tags: color-symbolism, India, travel
Authored by Kate Smith
CMG’s International conference is going to be held in India next February so I wrote an article India — a Country of Symbolic Colors that is the feature story in Color Chips Summer 2007.
If you’d like to read the article it is available on Sensational Color
I’m already anticipating the journey and meeting with my colleagues from around the globe. Would you like to join us?
5th Jul. '06 • Category: Destination Color • Tags: interior-design, travel
Authored by Kate Smith
For the launch of the new Volkswagen, international artists used graphic design, urban art, and illustration to turn Copenhagen’s Hotel Fox into the world’s most exciting and creative lifestyle hotel.
12th Jun. '06 • Category: Destination Color • Tags: Books, color-meaning, travel
Authored by Kate Smith
Throughout time, man has used color to enhance himself and the world around him. Colorful World beautifully reveals to the reader the colors of the world; not the colors found in the natural surroundings, but rather the colors selected by man to express something about himself and the community in which he lives.
Amandine Guisez’s photographs transport the reader around the globe where she “discovered a passion that knows no political frontiers.” She also discovers that “those who deal with colour speak the same launguage, a language concerned with the intensity, brilliance or depth of a particular tone, value and shade.”
The 200 plus photographs are divided by color and supporting text touches on the meaning of colors and how different cultures have viewed colors through the ages. This book is “a celebration of human creativity” and I thoroughly enjoyed viewing each page.
