CMG’s first 2012 ChromaZone event will be held in Denver, Colorado, Friday March 2nd – more details
ChromaZones are results oriented color meetings, comprising a color workshop and local guests presenting myriad subjects from design to marketing to business. It is fast paced and energetic. Attendees will present and discuss their colors and stories and as the day progresses, the colors will be narrowed to a final palette. ChromaZone palettes will be available in digital format with notations so that you can work on them immediately.
You do NOT need to be a member of CMG to register and participate.
Luana Rubin, CMG, (President of eQuilter.com)
Guest Speaker: Luana Rubin, CMG
Color Marketing Group is delighted to confirm that Luana Rubin, President and co-owner of eQuilter.com is the guest speaker at CMG’s first 2012 ChromaZone event.
Luana has worked in the fashion and textile design industries for over 30 years, in Los Angeles, Hong Kong, New York, and now Boulder Colorado. While living in Hong Kong, she was an import designer working in 10 Asian countries, and hundreds of factories. eQuilter has over 1000 new products per month, which are featured along with trends and creative inspiration in a bi-weekly e-newsletter, which goes out to 120,000 subscribers.
Luana is the keynote trend presenter at the annual Fall International Textile Expo in Las Vegas, and was the keynote speaker at the 2011 SAQA annual conference. (Studio Art Quilt Associates) She is a licensed designer for Robert Kaufman Fabrics and YLI Threads, and is a Bernina National Teacher.
She received the Michael Kile Award – a lifetime achievement award from the quilt industry – in 2008. eQuilter has raised $950,000 for international charities, collected and delivered 2155 quilts to tsunami survivors in Japan, and sponsors international quilt exhibits in Europe, the US and Asia.
Upcoming ChromaZone Events:
Philadelphia, PA – March 6th
Cincinnati, OH – April 12th
Irvine, CA – May 11th
New York City, NY – May 22nd
Chicago, IL – June 13th
Atlanta, GA – July 12th
Dates will shortly be confirmed for the following ChromaZones:
Dallas, TX
Montreal, Canada
San Francisco, CA
Toronto, Canada
Vancouver, Canada
Register and download more information
CMG is grateful to the following sponsors for their support of this event:
by Jude Stewart
Color-fans can now channel their fascination into a worthy cause: Ownacolour.com, sponsored by Glidden Paint, is auctioning off shades of the digital rainbow for charity. For a $2 donation to UNICEF (or more if you wish), you can select and name your very own shade. OwnaColour also provides real-time infographics tracking favorite shades by gender, country and so forth.
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This week’s content contributed by Luana Rubin, CMG.
CMG’s 2012 European meeting will be held in Lisbon, Portugal, June 6 – 8. Full details will shortly be available. For more information contact Sharon Griffis (sgriffis@colormarketing.org) 703.329.8500.
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CELEBRATING 50 YEARS OF COLOR IN MIAMI, FLORIDA!
October 25 – 28, 2012
Miami, Florida is the destination for Color Lust, CMG’s 2012 International Summit and 50th anniversary celebrations.
Great times and brilliant colors are yours when you visit Greater Miami and the Beaches. Miami is blessed with diverse cultural institutions; Art Deco buildings; an exciting array of stores, galleries, and boutiques that put a designer spin on Miami Beach shopping; and an alluring diversity of cuisine and nightlife. Miami Beach, Florida’s picture-postcard winter playground has blossomed into a sophisticated community. Its trendy charms revolve around its cuisine, sizzling nightspots and cultural scene.
Downtown Miami pulsates with activity as commercial, cultural and leisure pursuits come together. Innovative skyscrapers compete for your attention, while historic shopping arcades and storefronts packed with merchandise evoke Miami’s origins as a trading town. Downtown Miami department stores and emporiums offer big city shopping with a cosmopolitan flair, while the area’s diversity inspires dining delights in a variety of culinary styles.
South Beach, Florida has been called the American Riviera and an Art Deco Playground. Yet there’s more than fine white sand to South Beach’s fantasyland of exuberant architecture. It’s also a culinary hot spot for gourmet to casual cuisine.
These are just a few of the reasons that Color Marketing Group invites you to join us to celebrate 50 YEARS OF COLOR DESIGN!
HYATT REGENCY MIAMI
With luxury guestrooms, more than 100,000 square feet of state-of-the-art function space and a sleek, contemporary ambiance, Hyatt Regency Miami is the ideal upscale destination for CMG’s 2012 International summit and 50th anniversary celebrations.
$20 million in renovations has transformed the Hyatt Regency Miami into a chic hotel that mirrors the city’s cosmopolitan atmosphere. Guests can enjoy completely redesigned accommodations featuring plush Hyatt Grand Beds, ergonomic work stations and all new furnishings and fixtures. Hyatt Regency Miami’s central location in the downtown business district allows guests easy access to the city’s richest cultural experiences and world-renowned dining, shopping, nightlife and beaches located just minutes away.
AFFORDABILITY – $139 per night (plus applicable taxes).
REGISTRATION FOR THE INTERNATIONAL SUMMIT WILL OPEN SHORTLY, BUT RESERVATIONS CAN BE MADE IMMEDIATELY AT THE HYATT REGENCY MIAMI
Hyatt Regency Miami
400 SE 2nd Avenue, Miami, FL 33131
Tel: +1 305 358 1234 Fax: +1 305 358 0529
For more information contact Sharon Griffis (sgriffis@colormarketing.org) 703.329.8500.
For the Presidential Family portrait President Barack Obama and his youngest daughter, Sasha, proudly don this bold, sassy hue, which once again proves this color is genderless and ascends to the First Family of the USA.
Seems nice, doesn’t it ? Well, in the first half of the 20th century, people used to come there to throw away all their dump, including bottles, toasters, TVs, and even cars! Everything lasted for almost one hundred years, until people finally realized what a mistake they had done.
In 1967, the North Coast Water Quality Board and city leaders closed the area and several cleanup programs have taken place, but the result today is what you see here.
However, recently, it seems that nature has started its own ‘clean up program’, roughing up the edges and making the beach an attraction point for thousands of tourists each year, who come to take home a little glassy souvenir – even though that’s illegal, since the officials took over the beach.
Nevertheless, Glass beach remains a living testament of what careless pollution and lack of concern about the environment can create. Hopefully, we can learn from this kind of things, while we still can.
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This week’s contribution by Marvin Miller, Member Color Marketing Group.
Luana Rubin, CMG, (President of eQuilter.com)
Color Marketing Group is delighted to confirm that Luana Rubin, President and co-owner of eQuilter.com is the guest speaker at the 2012 Asia Pacific meeting being held in Bangkok, Thailand, February 7 – 12.
Luana has worked in the fashion and textile design industries for over 30 years, in Los Angeles, Hong Kong, New York, and now Boulder Colorado. While living in Hong Kong, she was an import designer working in 10 Asian countries, and hundreds of factories. eQuilter has over 1000 new products per month, which are featured along with trends and creative inspiration in a bi-weekly e-newsletter, which goes out to 120,000 subscribers. Luana is the keynote trend presenter at the annual Fall International Textile Expo in Las Vegas, and was the keynote speaker at the 2011 SAQA annual conference. (Studio Art Quilt Associates) She is a licensed designer for Robert Kaufman Fabrics and YLI Threads, and is a Bernina National Teacher.
She received the Michael Kile Award – a lifetime achievement award from the quilt industry – in 2008. eQuilter has raised $950,000 for international charities, collected and delivered 2155 quilts to tsunami survivors in Japan, and sponsors international quilt exhibits in Europe, the US and Asia.
For more information or to register for the 2012 Asia Pacific meeting visit Color Marketing Group’s web site.
Good color choice makes your home more interesting to look at from the outside, and brings life and warmth inside.
Is that handsome home yours? The one that passersby stop and admire from the street? If so, your home may have what CMG’s Past President, James Martin of the Color People call “carefully positioned curb appeal”.
According to a study published in the International Journal of Biotechnology, colour matters when it comes to medicine. Researchers at India’s SIES College of Management Studies found a direct correlation between pill colour and patient expectations. A series of interviews determined that patients formulate predictions for both the taste and effectiveness of medicine based on colour alone. As one researcher puts it, “Patients undergo a sensory experience every time they self-administer a drug, whether it’s swallowing a tablet or capsule, chewing a tablet, swallowing a liquid, or applying a cream or ointment.”
It was reported that 14% of participants believed that pink-coloured tablets are more likely to be sweeter in taste as compared to red ones. Many of them also believed that yellow pills would be salty, and that white or blue ones would be bitter to swallow.
Read the rest of the article here.
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This week’s content contributed by Beth Simon, CMG and CMG member, Jason Allen.
REGISTER TODAY for Color Marketing Group’s 2012 Asia Pacific meeting being held in Bangkok, Thailand, February 7th – 12th, 2012.
Thailand’s capital, Bangkok, is the venue for Color Marketing Group’s 2012 Asia Pacific meeting. Cultural phenomenon, shopping heaven, and tourist treasure, Bangkok is one of the most cosmopolitan, contrasting and above all, compelling of the Asian cities. It is a steamy, pulsating, yet smiling metropolis of over 10 million people filled with culture, creativity, and color!
This is one International Color Meeting that you will NOT want to miss as CMG members from all over the world will convene February 7 – 12 at the Pathumwan Princess Hotel, Bangkok to forecast what’s NEXT in the Asia Pacific region.
For more information contact Sharon Griffis, sgriffis@colormarketing.org or visit CMG’s web site to download more information.
