An inspiring podcast on everything you need to know about color!
Stay tuned for our next podcast with Mexican designer Fernando Laposse live November 26!
The Fast and Furious with Dominik Eisend
Dominik Eisend steers & drives Merck’s global Pull Marketing activities within surface solutions, always focusing on design & technology at automotive OEMs. He introduces new trends and stylings and listens closely to what is needed in the market to be able to present the right creations at the right time.
Dominik has a background in transportation interior design focusing on materials and CMF. Prior to his role at Merck he has worked for several OEMs such as Mercedes-Benz, AMG and FORD as well as for a German-Chinese automotive start up called BORGWARD where he was leading the Color&Trim design team.
He loves to work with materials or to experiment with new technology to generate material driven design experiences. He looks at color and surfaces to play an incremental role for good product design. In his eyes the material design will play the most influential role in the future of mobility. Dominik currently resides in Stuttgart, Germany.
Unleashing your Creative Self with Marta Aymerich
Such a joy to speak to my energetic friend Marta Aymerich who talks about how she unleashes creativity as a lifestyle coach using of course color. She will explain in detail the methodology she uses in innovation workshops with her clients but also how important enjoying the journey in creative processes truly is in a world where people and businesses are so focused on the end result. Marta unveils her life vision, the societal trends she sees and how happiness is a choice. She wakes up in the morning and draws her to-do lists in color, dresses in the color that best represents her emotions that very day. The biggest purpose in life she says, is to be you, to be yourself.
Marta Aymerich was born in Barcelona where she currently still lives and works. She is an open-minded graphic designer with multidisciplinary skills with more than 30 years of experience, she applies an holistic vision and a sustainable attitude to all her projects. Her inspiration and motivation comes from sharing her passion for art, colour, design and lifestyle, by helping her clients solve challenges in a creative yet practical approach.
Currently she is specialised in creativity and innovation processes as a creative coach.
The Natural Flow of Color with Laura Perryman
Laura will give insights in the world of materials and how specifically plastics relate to product design and yes color. She believes the world of color design is adapting to seasonal color flows, letting go of the need to control color in design and letting it flow naturally. An interesting talk about creating natural colors in labs, neuro-aesthetics and where the future of design & color is moving.
Laura is an experienced colour and material designer and trend forecaster, who thinks strategically, has a user-centered mindset and brings inspiration, clear actionable insights, and design directions for brands and organisations. Her ethos is colour and materials should be integral but above all have a positive purpose for applications, products, or services. Working with companies, she navigates future opportunities and creates intelligent, empathetic, and planet-aware palettes and designs, demonstrating aesthetics are key to all levels of experience.
Her in-depth background in colour, knowledge of materials in manufacture, and critical understanding of the trend prediction process have enabled the creation of innovative design directions, brand colour guidelines, and material development for globally renowned and respected companies.
Her work experience encompasses diverse industry sectors, from industrial product design to digital platforms; she has created unique CMF design for future-forward innovation firms in-house at Arrival, Nokia, and Speedo, and has consulted with brands such as 3M Post-it, Sainsbury’s, DuPont Corian, and HP, to create category leading colour identities for new products. She’s led strategic future forecasting projects for clients such as Panasonic Europe, Antron, Comex, and Procter & Gamble and created engaging and insightful reports for trend forecasting agencies including WGSN and Beautystreams.
Laura currently directs Colour of Saying, a UK-based CMF Design Studio, focused on future-forward circular and emotionally-connected colour and material design, insights, and experiences for brands and organisations. Most recently showcasing an exhibition and series of workshops entitled ‘Colour Via:’ on how colour can drive and be an agent for change in advancing sustainable design practices. She is currently on the board of trustees for The Colour in Design Awards, a non-profit organisation that supports new graduates and designers to explore colour further in their practice.
Laura is the author of The Colour Bible, published Autumn 2021, a succinct book covering 100 significant colours and their pertinence and potential for use in the world around us.
Sharing the Love for Color with Peggy Van Allen
An educational talk with Peggy on how she observes human behavior and translates changes in her surroundings to color palettes, the importance of sharing knowledge in the field of color and design to inspire others, how you communicate color digitally in current times with clients, how being President of Color Marketing Group impacted her professional career and network and how her view on the importance of philanthropy in multiple areas.
Peggy Van Allen is a designer and color anthropologist with a background in graphic design and experience in trend research, visual merchandising, and palette development. Her unique skillset allows her to visually communicate the complexities of color in a way that is both inspirational and educational. Peggy has a firm understanding that trend forecasting is integral to the success of design and color palette development.
Peggy has been an active member of Color Marketing Group (CMG) for over 20 years. She has served on numerous committees, facilitated workshops, and served two terms on the Board of Directors. Following two years as Vice-President of Color Forecasting, Peggy was appointed as CMG’s 2020-2022 President.
Color Marketing Group, a not-for-profit, international association of color design professionals, is a forum for the exchange of all things color. Members represent a broad spectrum of designers, marketers, color scientists, consultants, educators, and artists.
As a color anthropologist, Peggy studies human behavior in order to understand the why, what and when of a target consumer’s color preferences. Corporate clients, in the home products industry, utilize Van Allen’s color expertise on projects ranging from large-scale paint color displays to smaller color line updates, and material color offerings such as building sheets, grout, and roofing.
The Future is Here with Bridget Frizzie
In this episode you will discover what a futurist is and how Bridget herself visions the future in the world of events. She will illuminate us on her colorful Colombian upbringing and how that transformed her desire to create in beauty, bringing along her audience in her dream world of storytelling.
Bridget comes to the table with over 20 years of experience as a provocative lifestyle designer, handling everything from event ideation, interior styling, color customization, hospitality design and visual merchandising, as well as an accomplished floral designer. She is Creative Director and senior strategist of Kehoe Designs, a full service event decor and production company. She is a board member of the international association for Color Marketing Group. Her skill set includes blending a multicultural background, a passion for travel and a relentless pursuit of trend spotting. Her default is a nearly obsessive curiosity with future trends, color forecasting and scenario planning. She’s a patient hunter with a meticulous eye for finding the subtle nuances in design and innovation, and envisioning how they’re indicators of what’s next. Bridget’s style of thinking melds together seemingly unrelated facts, ideas and nuggets of information; result is trend spotting that is both inspiring and relatable.
“Excellent series about color. It’s a complex topic and Judith approaches it from a variety of angles with her guests. Always entertaining and insightful. I look forward to listening to each episode and learning something new about color and the visionaries in the color world.”
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