DECEMBER COLOR ALERT® - Reborn WHITE. YES, REALLY. It’s a blank canvas, a fresh start, the absence of color, the brightest light, the ultimate chakra. Take your pick at what it may personally represent, it’s all white. Emerging from CMG European meetings in 2019, with expectations to appear in 2021,…
Color Marketing Group and Techmer PM collaborate on the 2023+ World Color Forecast™
Color Marketing Group and Techmer PM collaborate on the 2023+ World Color Forecast™ For the third year in a row, Techmer PM LLC, a leading North American compounder and materials design firm, is partnering with Color Marketing Group®, the premier international association for color design professionals, to help companies reach…
Color Marketing Group® - Key Colors By Montaha Hidefi, CMG's Vice President, Color Forecasting History and Background In 2011, Color Marketing Group® (CMG) introduced regional Key Colors for the World Color Forecast™. Each year since then, the Regional Forecasts include a Key Color selected during the regional color steering. Taking into…
We have just revealed our 2023+ Key Colors from Europe, North America, Asia Pacific, and Latin America. CMG's 2023+ North American Key Color is "BOHLD". A true, unnuanced, neutral black, Bohld is a grounding, rich, universal hue representing strength and power moving to new days. It allows us to…
November Color Alert® – Libertad Virtual (Virtual Freedom)
NOVEMBER COLOR ALERT® - Libertad Virtual (Virtual Freedom) DARK BLUE, YOUR MEANINGFUL HUE Blue comes in many guises from light to dark, but its deep versions set the heart racing with intrigue. Whether navy, midnight, deep space, or any of the other words to describe dark blue, the hue can…
OCTOBER COLOR ALERT® - THE PAPER BAG THE PAPER BAG Wrap it up! In The Paper Bag! How can something so utilitarian, such a commodity inspire a color? Easy. It represents so much of what we need now and in the future. The Paper Bag grew from CMG North American…
SEPTEMBER COLOR ALERT® - AI LOVE AI LOVE Fall in Love with AI Love It’s said that pink is but a promise of red, but AI Love holds a lot more than a mere promise of a hue. This intense, pink-red, with the slightest influence of blue, bursts with energy…
AUGUST COLOR ALERT® - CBD CBD Relax, with CBD A calming hue with an undeniably natural appearance, CBD soothes color cravings with its yellow influenced green. Inspired by the natural world, cannabis commerce, and a sense of renewal, CBD charts its own journey as a self-confident color presence whether alone…
CMG adds a new membership level to meet the needs of ALL color design professionals. The pandemic greatly accelerated the adoption of technology across all facets of society. And that was no different for Color Marketing Group®, as we shifted our traditional in-person color design events to completely virtual settings.…
JULY COLOR ALERT® - Digital ID Blue represents the essence of self ... … at least the digital social self. Digital ID has emerged as a new hue, bridging color for the technology of who we are, on the planet we want to embrace. It is neither specifically science nor…
TechmerVision, Color Design Tool for Materials Development
Presented by Sandra Sampson, CMF Design Lead TechmerVision is a unique web-based color design tool, developed by Techmer PM, that enables designers and engineers within all parts of the supply chain to communicate, collaborate, and innovate in the creation and application of new colors. TechmerVision is employed during the product…
JUNE COLOR ALERT® - Urban Monarch Revel in a golden horizon. As seasons change around the world in June, it is the constant golden light that shines warmth and joy. Urban Monarch was created as a colorful symbol of freedom for growing nomadic lifestyles, that changed in 2020, but it…
MAY COLOR ALERT® - Greenery Indoors, outdoors, let’s hear it for green, and Greenery! Following close behind blue, green is the color most associated with the planet. For good reason, it is the color for eco-friendly living, gardens, the produce section of the local market, freshness, and on and on.…
APRIL COLOR ALERT® - Contentamento The best is yet to come! The bright pink of Contentamento represents the desire for more love, more joy, and more unbridled fun with family and friends. It is a color that unabashedly takes center stage as it celebrates life. Its lightness and charm conjure…
MARCH COLOR ALERT® - Apnea Apnea is a color of contemplation. Inspired by the ongoing deep cleaning of the planet’s oceans, this murky blue-green suggests the deep waters as well as contemplative meaning. It is multi-layered as it celebrates its dual color influencers, values deeper meaning, and exhibits a sense…
FEBRUARY COLOR ALERT® - Becoming With the past year having been, well, challenging, 2021 is a prime time for a color to be slightly “off.” That unusual quality is embodied in the color Becoming. With little chroma, and the slightest touch of black, this warm off-white feels like a familiar…
JANUARY COLOR ALERT® - Calm Down Take a breath and Calm Down. What a perfect way to begin the new year with the reminder to Calm Down. Although that’s always a good thing to do, it’s even better when it is wrapped up in a color as soothing as Calm…
DECEMBER COLOR ALERT® - Transformacion If ever there was a hue for the times, it is Transformacion. Transformacion, a deep hue that is red with an influence of blue, represents the evolution of life cycles from birth through youth, adulthood, and finally mature years. Considered during Color Marketing Group Latin…
Sunny Side Up appears to radiate shimmering light and is destined to represent the empathetic and kind side of humanity. We have just revealed our 2022+ Key Colors from Europe, North America, Asia Pacific, and Latin America. Color Marketing Group’s 2022+ European Key Color is “Sunny Side Up”,…