{"id":397,"date":"2011-09-21T21:25:54","date_gmt":"2011-09-22T03:25:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/50.87.217.193\/blog\/creative-nudge-when-you-least-expect"},"modified":"2021-04-04T00:06:42","modified_gmt":"2021-04-04T06:06:42","slug":"creative-nudge-when-you-least-expect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.equilter.com\/blog\/creative-nudge-when-you-least-expect\/","title":{"rendered":"Creative Nudge – When You Least Expect…"},"content":{"rendered":"

I've just arrived home from colorful<\/a> San Antonio (Texas) tonight, after spending the last few days at the Color Marketing Group annual North American conference. It was a working conference, and we all worked hard to come up with our Color Palette<\/a> and trend forecast, which will be shared with other members of CMG. <\/p>\n

San Antonio was charming and relaxed, and the Riverwalk area was very special. My time there was definitely too short, and I wish I could go back for the Intl Accordion Festival<\/a> there Oct 7-9. I got to ride up the river on a water taxi, and dine overlooking the river. The next night I had dinner with a friend from Hong Kong, in the big Mexican marketplace El Mercado<\/a>, at the famous Mi Tierra<\/a> restaurant, Mariachi bands<\/a> and all!<\/p>\n

I spent the evening wandering around town with my camera, and came across a large glass sculpture in a gallery window. This image is a closeup of that gallery window, and the color<\/a> was very powerful. It wasn't what I expected to photograph last night, but it turned out to be one of the most provocative images that I captured. I really liked the layer of smaller clear glass flowers on top of the larger and more dramatic colored blossoms.<\/p>\n

CMG has conferences also in Europe, Asia and South America. It was very interesting to see all of the color palettes from all the international conferences, put together on one huge World Color Palette. What was so interesting was the predominance of Purple<\/a>s. In fact they named a deep rich purple the CMG Color of the Year – a fun color called Boyz-N-Berry! (tee shirt motto: Real Men Wear Purple<\/a>!) There were more purples on the World Palette than any other color family, which I find very inter sting because purple is a color of balance and creativity.<\/p>\n

If you mix Red<\/a> (hot) and Blue<\/a> (cool) together, you get purple…. a color that was reserved for royalty for many centuries. Now purple can be worn by anyone, in fact it is one of the most popular hues chosen by customers when they buy the hot trend of colored jeans. Red<\/a> jeans are pretty fantastic too – if you can wear that sort of thing. Purple<\/a> is a color that has often been a favorite of people doing creative work. It is a color that says "I am an independent thinker, and I am an artistic person". <\/p>\n

There are so many ways to express yourself with Purple<\/a> these days:
Soft Heather and Rosy Mauve, Electric Purple<\/a> and the jeweltone Amethyst, darkened Eggplant and Violet hues<\/a>, and the Berry Jam colors that are so popular this Fall. Delicious!<\/p>\n

When you mix Purple<\/a> with those gorgeous Southwest colors like Enchilada Red<\/a>, Sunrise Orange<\/a>, Jalapeno Green<\/a> and Cactus Flower Pink<\/a> – WOW!<\/span><\/p>\n

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