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Color Alert 2022
March 1, 2022

March Color Alert®

MARCH COLOR ALERT®  “You get a New Day! And YOU get a New Day! EVERYONE gets a NEW DAY!’ And NEW DAY has arrived to greet the world! With an inspiring light-valued, red-based blue color, it offers a fresh mood for periwinkle. Not just a nicely balanced color, it suggests…
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February 24, 2022

CMG Swatchbook

  The 1960's:   1962 - Color Marketing Group is born in the home of one of the Founding members. Our mission from the start was:   to help each other do better work in the world of color marketing. to improve the business circumstances of color marketing people, that…
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Color: Around the WorldUncategorized
February 15, 2022

If Walls Could Talk

Exploring color stories in museum exhibitions. By Guest Blogger, Luanne Stovall, Artist, Designer & Color Theorist.   Alexander Calder and Pablo Picasso, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Whenever I visit a new museum show, I always check out the color palette first. The colors featured on the banners outside, the…
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Color Alert 2022
February 1, 2022

February Color Alert®

FEBRUARY COLOR ALERT®  ORANGE YOU GLAD THIS COLOR IS TRENDING?  YES!    Dad jokes aside, the individuality of orange is emerging to add a bit of spice, a bit of fun, and a bit of warmth to the world of design, all while keeping a bit of a serious note…
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In the Media
January 27, 2022

Harnessing Creativity in The Interest of Color

This month Rug News and Design interviewed CMG's President, Peggy Van Allen, Founder of Colorfuel, to explore CMG's unique and collaborative color forecasting process. "Color is ubiquitous.  It is as integral to life as air and water.  Nowhere is this statement more relevant than with the members of Color Marketing…
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January 22, 2022

The Amazing Power of Color

Written By Peggy Van Allen, President Color Marketing Group and Founder, Colorfuel   In my volunteer role as President, Color Marketing Group I have the opportunity for some fun conversations about color. Check out this interview I did with Todd Covelli for The List. We talked about colors of the year…
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Color Alert 2022
January 8, 2022

January Color Alert®

JANUARY COLOR ALERT®  START ON THE BRIGHT SIDE    As a new year dawns, and expectations, wishes, and even some disappointments carry into 2022, there is a worldwide message of positivity in a single hue. Versions of yellow are emerging from Asia Pacific, North America, Europe and Latin America that…
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December 17, 2021

Happy and Colorful Holidays

Color Marketing Group's Board of Directors would like to wish everyone a healthy and happy holiday season and warm wishes for the coming year.
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Color Alert 2021
December 1, 2021

December Color Alert® – Reborn

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,…
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World Color Forecast
November 5, 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…
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World Color Forecast
November 3, 2021

About CMG’s Key Colors

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…
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World Color Forecast
November 3, 2021

Introducing our 2023+ Key Colors

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…
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Color Alert 2021
November 1, 2021

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…
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Color Alert 2021
October 1, 2021

October Color Alert® – The Paper Bag

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…
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Color Alert 2021
September 1, 2021

September Color Alert® – AI Love

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…
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Color Alert 2021
August 3, 2021

August Color Alert® – CBD

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…
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CMG Membership
July 22, 2021

Announcing a new CMG Membership Opportunity

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.…
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Color Alert 2021
July 1, 2021

July Color Alert® – Digital ID

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…
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Uncategorized
June 4, 2021

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…
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Color Alert 2021
June 1, 2021

June Color Alert® – Urban Monarch

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…
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