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. Press Release for CMG’s Next Color – Boyz’n’Berry

  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 [...]

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 [...]

By Janice Lindsay, Chairholder, Color Marketing Group I wonder what it would be like to live in a world where red, not green, was nature’s neutral!?  They say there are no colour mistakes in Nature and look how shockingly bold reds can be! Inside, it is a truism that all good rooms have a little [...]

Image courtesy of Calico Corners – Calico Home By Patti Call, Vice President, Color Marketing Group Alexandria, VA – BOYZ-N-BERRY is the Color Marketing Group’s NEXT important forecast color for the future. With clarity, on the reddened side of purple, it can be interpreted across many industries in spectacular combinations. After all, a color is [...]

Boyz-n-Berry represents the mainstreaming of purple.   It’s a hue for creativity and irreverence; glancing sideways at its traditional roots.  From office to home, from youth market to luxury goods, purple has as much masculine as feminine appeal.  Confident women and real men wear purple! For more information contact Sharon Griffis (sgriffis@colormarketing.org).

PHOENIX, Ariz. – (June 1, 2011).  Dunn-Edwards, the Southwest’s leading manufacturer of premium paints, announces the opening of the world’s first LEED-certified* paint manufacturing facility. Located in Phoenix, the 336,000-sq.-ft. facility was custom designed to be the greenest and most efficient in the coatings industry. This ultra-modern building encompasses manufacturing, product development, quality control laboratories, [...]

The sheer size of the US market precludes easy definition; however CMG’s President, Mark Woodman, finds that whatever the region, the search for relaxed, personal and authentic style is a quest that crosses all demographics.  Read the Full Article 

Greetings, Color Passionistas! The first months of 2011 have been busy and exciting. We’ve already had the successful Asia/Pacific meeting and the premier ChromaZone event took place in NY earlier this month. The European meeting is now under way and two more ChromaZones are coming up in June – Irvine, CA 6/10 and Chicago, IL, [...]

  P’ZAZZ! is Color Marketing Group’s NEXT Contract color. Alexandria, VA – Color Marketing Group members add P’ZAZZ to office, retail and hospitality designs. P’Zazz is not your ordinary purple; it’s energized, it’s sassy and it’s a little burlesque – a strong red-purple with a wink to Hollywood.  As the last color in a rainbow [...]