If you’re having difficulty finding the perfect holiday gift for your fellow color-junkies, we have the solution. Beats by Dr. Dre has given their sleek and ever popular Studio headphones a colorful makeover for the holiday season. The limited edition collection features a spectrum of bright, candy colors—including purple, blue, orange, green, pink, and brushed aluminum. The original and fashionable design of the Studio headphone combined with the vivid new color tones makes for undeniably hip headgear.  read more

It’s always nice to see validation that our color trends are right on track. A case in point is the Spring/Summer 2011 line of J Brand’s colored denim.

The collection of eye-popping hues was featured in the New York Times’ Sunday Styles section this past weekend, and clearly parallels key colors from The Color Association’s Spring/Summer 2011 Women’s forecasted colors. read more

posted June 11, 2011 by Roseanna Roberts

Can there be anything more beautiful than glowing colors against a simple backdrop of white built-in shelves and exposed brick walls?  We don’t think so, which is why we held the launch of our new Beauty Color Forecast for S/S 2013 at the New York outpost of glassybaby.

The Forecast was color matched with 20 of glassybaby’s over 450+  glass-blown votive shades (see accompanying image).  read more

Susan Hable has long been known as a creative tornado, known for her ability to pushing the boundaries of print and color, no wonder she is often featured in major design publications.  Read about Susan's perspective on color and design.  read more

While billions tuned in from around the globe (some of us waking at ungodly hours to catch a glimpse of the spectacle), the biggest question surrounding the Royal Wedding was finally revealed. Catherine Middleton stepped out of the Queen’s 1977 black Rolls-Royce in a stunning ivory Sarah Burton creation – a nod to the late British designer Alexander McQueen (for whom Burton has taken over the helm).

As described by Burton herself, "Alexander McQueen's designs are all about bringing contrasts together to create startling and beautiful clothes and I hope that by marrying traditional fabrics and lacework, with a modern structure and design we have created a beautiful dress for Catherine on her wedding day”  read more     posted May 1, 2011  by Roseanna Roberts

Issey Miyake designed the 2010 evian bottle. This is the fourth annual limited edition designer bottle. Miyake joins previous Evian bottle designers Christian Lacroix, Jean Paul Gaultier, and Paul Smith. It may be a sign of the times but this cheery bottle is designed with a bright flower meant to embody the Evian signature message, "Live Young."   He said his inpirations was from his Pleats Please line. see all bottles from 2007 - 2010

posted April 2, 2011

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Guest Blog from Marisa

I’ve always been a lipstick addict, even before I was old enough to wear it.  I loved everything about it- the packaging, the smell, the shiny bullet shape and the brighter the color the better. As I got older and became involved in art, most of my work also reflected that love and instead of flowers and fruits, my still life drawings and paintings always included a tube of lipstick somewhere and almost always, it was hot pink.  How ironic - or maybe it’s just kismet, that I grew up to be not only a makeup artist, but also a color specialist at Three Custom Color where I get to create color, blend, and mold lipstick all by hand.   read more

photo credit - Diane Von Furstenberg spring 2011 ready-to-wear, photo: Luca Cannonieri, GoRunway.com

If you didn't know already, March is National Nutrition Month. With the theme for 2011 being "let color be the guide", it is suggested that filling your plate with a combination of the 6 major color groups helps to ensure you have a healthy, balanced diet. What better short cut to knowing your basic color food groups than by reviewing them through the lens of photographer and food stylist Linda Lundgren. The beautiful raindrop shaped images include compositions of vibrant red, yellow, blue, purple and green foods. Curiously missing from the group is orange - a big player in the realm of food. We can only suspect that a personal dislike for the color justified elimination.  see more

One can not help but be captured by the amount of teal  featured  this season. Forecasted twenty-four months ago for Spring/Summer 2011, teal-or Pollock Blue as it is referred to in the CAUS forecast-seems to be hitting it's stride. Teal is noted for its saturation and richness. Notable high fashion houses are using it to inject a sense of luxury and opulence into their brand. Dior features the hue in this season's ad campaign. And, can you guess the new color of Tom Ford's newest fragrance? Yes, it's teal! For more examples, you need only open a fashion magazine for the season. Blue-green tones will be invading your local retailers in the coming months so be sure to incorporate a hit of one of spring's hottest shades into your wardrobe!  see more

Photo by Steven Meisel      Published March 7, 2011 

It seems in the last few decades, some industries have been obsessed with how many colors they can make and how they can standardize them. These thousands of standardized colors that we have designed to look the same under any condition lose their personality, charm, and character as they become more controlled. As with these situations, it is not long until we crave the opposite - quality color, not quantity, random, not standardized, and color that moves not stays the same no matter what you do to it. Such is the place artist Helena Jongerius finds herself as she embarks on her newest work entitled '300 colored vases'. Here, her color quest is more about what can be created and not how will it be systemized or designed to be reproduced.  read more