Posts Tagged ‘mimosa’

Behind the Scenes: Creating a Shades of Light Cover!

Need a new look? Planning and organizing your thoughts with your vision can be a daunting task! Our design team works for months on our cover shots.

We start by scouring magazines & tearing out pages that inspire us; pour over fabric books; paint charts;

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take pictures of anything that catches our attention for our look;

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and madly search the internet for ideas:

Blogs (http://thepeakofchic.blogspot.com/)

HGTV online (http://www.hgtv.com/decorating/index.html)

Consult our retail store Designers (http://bridgetbearidesigns.blogspot.com and http://www.dialmeyersdesign.blogspot.com)

Once we have hundreds of images pulled we print them and pasting them on an inspiration board. We have a large foam board on a easel where we paste & pin ideas; we switch it out, add & delete over many weeks. Creating a central location where our team can bring all of their ideas together.

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Our projects evolve & when they come together we vote & pick a catalog cover;

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Have fun! Make your dreams come true with a wish board of your own.

Mimosa, the color of hope and reassurance for 2009

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Pantone, the world renowned authority on color, recently selected their color of the year, Mimosa. The invigurating color is popping up everywhere.

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“The color yellow exemplifies the warmth and nurturing quality of the sun, properties we as humans are naturally drawn to for reassurance,” explains Leatrice Eiseman, executive director of the Pantone Color Institute®. “Mimosa also speaks to enlightenment, as it is a hue that sparks imagination and innovation.”

Images & Copy courtesy of Pantone & Colourlovers