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Color Bud, Lynne Whiteside, left this comment on a previous post:"Please point me in the direction of affects of natural light on wall color. North, South, East, and West all have their own reflective color and I need more information. Thanks a million."
Here's my answer:
I am a good designer.
I know that.
And I got over it — and myself — years ago but I do have an observation or two to share.
In every designer’s career they reach a turning point. That pinnacle is the day you wake up and without conscious note, design has become a reflex. What used to be items on your to-do list transform into things you just know how to do.
The evolution is due to experience and paying attention while it accrues. Or, let me put it this way. You don’t have your head up your ass…
Kathy Banak stopped by Color Budz the other day to chat about her line of fabric and paint called Authentic Home. Working with Rodda Paints, her Authentic Home brand is offering a suite of 220 fabrics that coordinate with 75 designer paint colors. With a focus on COLOR, Authentic Home provides a fine-tuned palette of premium designer home paint colors and home décor fabrics that transcend trends to create the right mood for the your space. . .
I’ll admit it. There aren’t many designers or folks who claim to be “color experts” that impress me at this point. Wouldn’t call it jaded. Rather, I’m just very objective, honest, and realistic about the raw talent and truly well-developed capabilities out there today. Paint stores, meh, the same thing. Overall just not impressed, I mean really impressed, by much in paint and color world any more. However, when I got an earful of how well Doelling’s had maintained through this last economic downturn, I was — for the first time in a long time. . .
Louis Cheskin (1907-1981). Clinical psychologist and famous color researcher. Strategic use of color in branding and packaging — marketing in general — was a concept Cheskin catapulted forward. Studying, implementing, experimenting, observing and then - lucky for us - reporting his findings and opinions in a prolific collection of books is how Cheskin established himself as a Color Expert.
Relocating from my Midwest home to the Southwest rekindled a fascination with geography and regional cultures in general. Shortly after the ‘big move’ I started noticing map art in home decor. Awesome examples included in this post.
Compass Color Rose™ shows you how to select wall color based on quality of light in order to coax mood and construct atmosphere — literally out of thin air! Best of all it works with ALL brands!
The geographic direction of fenestration matters when it comes to choosing paint colors — because windows and doors allow natural light to illuminate the interior and grants each space its own quality of atmosphere.
"Color Complete™ is a new venture for me and my partner, Paula Doelling-Lynn of Doelling Decorating Center in Valparaiso, Indiana
Using my voice as online color expert, funcolors, I have often expressed dissatisfaction with how paint and color product providers serve clients. Paula challenged me to work with her to deliver desperately needed insight and spur innovation.
Players in paint and color world sense opportunities but no one knows how to seize them. Paula and I hold key pieces to the puzzle.
Solutions to rock your bottom line upward are on the way. My preeminent color expertise and design knowledge combined with Paula's unparalleled paint store success and robust experience, guarantees us more street cred than anyone else currently on planet earth.
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On my word as funcolors,
I stand behind that promise.
International Association of
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"Color is a philosophy."
— Frank Mahnke
Multi-Disciplined Color Expert: All that really means is I've worked with color in a bunch of different ways and I don't forget much. If it has to do with color, it tends to stick. Experience including but not limited to: architectural color, graphic design, and study in the arts, metaphysical phenomenon, and earth sciences
"Your home is your
second skin."
— Frank Mahnke
Mission: Build a strong foundation of innovative color fundamentals. Change the way people think about how to color their homes, places of work, and communities - their world. Color Strategies is about Strategic Color Engineering™ for people based on psychology, light, art, and science.
"Color is a microcosm of everything in life."
— Faber Birren
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