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Color Alert 2023

June 1, 2023

June 2023 Color Alert®

JUNE COLOR ALERT®  What Experience! from Europe  Social • Optimistic• Engaged   REJOICE WITH "WHAT EXPERIENCE!" As the world continues to unwind the knots of the past few years, it is time to rejoin the world, embrace friends and family, travel to far flung locales, visit new places to dine…

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May 19, 2023

CMG’s 2023 Summit Reveal – Presenting the 2025+ World Color Forecast

Meet the Presenters of CMG's 2025+ World Color Forecast to be revealed this August 25 to 28 at the CMG virtual Summit Reveal.   Lora Di Fabio, Design & Development Manager, American Biltrite Lora Di Fabio is the Design & Development Manager at American Biltrite where she leads the design…

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Color Alert 2022

May 1, 2023

May 2023 Color Alert®

MAY COLOR ALERT®  Alien Blue from Asia Pacific  Phygi Blue from Europe  Techno Blitz from Latin America and Come Along from North America   Transcendent • Sumptuous• Phygital• Meta-Violet   VIOLET WITH A WORLD VIEW! Nothing is partisan about the new violet emerging into the design world for 2023. Though presenting…

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April 12, 2023

Call for Speakers 2023

CALLING ALL COLOR, MATERIAL AND DESIGN PROFESSIONALS This is your opportunity to connect with CMG’s multi-industry, global color, material and finish design professionals this October 25-28 at our virtual Summit Connect event! Engage with CMG members and share your innovative and immersive ideas and work in the business of color,…

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Color Alert 2022

April 1, 2023

April 2023 Color Alert®

APRIL COLOR ALERT®  E.V. from Asia Pacific Sustainable • Clean • Fresh • Global Get charged with a color that feels fresh and natural, with a technological edge. Get charged with E.V. Considered ideal in high gloss, but aesthetically beautiful in any iteration, E.V. embodies the pursuit of sustainable living,…

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Color Alert 2022

March 1, 2023

March 2023 Color Alert®

MARCH COLOR ALERT®  Bohld - our North American 2023+ Key Color Powerful• Sumptuous• Secure “I’ll stop wearing black when they make a darker color.” Wednesday Addams Powerful, sumptuous, secure, and timeless are only a few of the adjectives used to describe black. It is a color of power and mystery…

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Color Alert 2022

February 1, 2023

February 2023 Color Alert®

FEBRUARY COLOR ALERT®  Mirada Alegre - our  Latin American 2023+ Key Color Joyful• Upbeat• Energizing   Mirada Alegre, translating to Joyful Look, is a color to celebrate rejoining the world, loved ones, and regaining joy. Emerging from Latin America Color Marketing Group color meetings for 2023, it is a medium…

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Color Alert 2022

January 3, 2023

January 2023 Color Alert®

JANUARY COLOR ALERT®  Revival Green - our  European 2023+ Key Color Comfort • Balanced • Revived Ahhhh, the beginning of a new year, and after a bit of a rest, the great feeling of being revived and moving forward. Answering the call for a comfortable, easy start to the year, Revival…

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December 27, 2022

CMG Swatchbook – The 2020’s

2020: The economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic results in a massive financial loss for CMG as the world goes into lock-down and employees work from home. CMG pivots all in-person forecasting events to the virtual realm using Zoom. CMG launches new member engagement initiatives: ColorChat to keep us connected…

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December 8, 2022

CMG Swatchbook – Virtual Color Forecasting

2010's:  2016: CMG's first virtual color forecasting event was held to determine the 2018+ Latin American Forecast. Logistical complications had made it impossible to hold a Latin American Conference that year, so the Steering Committee, seated in multiple countries, spent hours on an online WebEx meeting discussing the trends and…

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Color Alert 2022

December 1, 2022

December Color Alert®

DECEMBER COLOR ALERT®  What the world needs now, is hugs, sweet hugs. Aside from the shameless rewriting of an iconic lyric, Hugging does seem to be just what the world needs. Instead of the calendar year ending with a big splashy bang of a color, let’s see it out with…

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November 24, 2022

CMG Swatchbook – New Brand Identity

2010's:  2016: After nearly two decades with the same branding and logo, CMG launches its new brand identity at the International Summit held in Albuquerque, NM. The initiative included a new logo, updated website, and refreshed messaging. The shape in the center of the new logo symbolizes CMG as a…

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November 16, 2022

COLOR MARKETING GROUP® Awards Leatrice Eiseman with The Forrest L. Dimmick Award for Excellence in Color Marketing

Color Marketing Group, the leading international association of color design professionals, bestowed its top honor to Leatrice Eiseman on November 11 at their International Summit in Tucson, AZ. The Forrest L. Dimmick Award for Excellence in Color Marketing recognizes revolutionary, dramatic or exceptional contributions in the field of color marketing.…

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World Color Forecast

November 15, 2022

Introducing our 2024+ Key Colors

Introducing our 2024+ Key Colors from Asia Pacific, Europe, Latin American, and North America.   CMG 2024+ Asia Pacific Main Key Color - Connection The year 2024 demands that we behave differently from how we did during the height of pandemic years. We ought to rely on new innovations, improved…

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November 10, 2022

CMG Swatchbook – CMG’s Color Alert® Program

2010's:  2014: One of CMG’s key responsibilities is the validation of our World Color Forecast™. Across the history of CMG, this has taken different forms—including the COLORFAIR in the 1960s and a computerized Tracking Program in the 1980s. In 2014, CMG launched the Color Alert® program. The monthly email features…

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Color Alert 2022

November 1, 2022

November Color Alert®

NOVEMBER COLOR ALERT®  Celebrating the familiar with the new is the essence of Revisited. Colors that bridge nature and technology have become more important in product design and living/working spaces. They are able to offer a respite from a busy day of meetings and projects yet maintain a subtle connection…

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October 27, 2022

CMG Swatchbook – ChromaZone Workshops

2010's:  2011:  For decades, Color Marketing Group forecast color at two annual Conferences, with Consumer Colors forecast at a spring event, and Contract Colors in the fall. However, this process was physically taxing for the participants, who had to pull all-nighters in order to complete the steering by the end…

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October 13, 2022

CMG Swatchbook – The Economical Impact

2000's:  2001: The 2000's were a difficult time for CMG, and the world. The 9/11 attacks had an immediate negative effect on the US economy resulting in significant unemployment. The association community at large was adversely impacted by the economic challenges, and CMG experienced a serious decline in membership. In…

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Color Alert 2022

October 1, 2022

October Color Alert®

OCTOBER COLOR ALERT®  With their kisses of dark red, Afetividade and Fervor are passionate, seductive and powerful with intimacy. These two pure reds present subtle differences in their amount of chroma and two sides of passionate red, a gentler side and an intense side. Though originating in two regions of…

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September 22, 2022

CMG Swatchbook – CMG Logo Update

1990's:  1998: Color Marketing Group unveils its new logo and vision statement, which is intended to better reflect the wide range of CMG members as well as the breadth of the color spectrum. The President at that time, Melanie Wood, CMG, noted, “CMG has modified its logo to represent a…

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