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Color Business

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AGENDA
Introduction
The Color Industries
Producing Color
Color Sampling
Color Forecasting
Color and Identity
Palettes, Color and History
Traditional Colors

INTRODUCTION
From a business point of view, design has a single purpose,
products are made to be sold.
A great part of success in sales is a result of good looks.
Color is more that just a means of attraction.
Color advertisements are read up to 42% more than similar
ones in black and white, and color on a page both accelerates
learning and increases comprehension.
Because color have such a profound influence on sales,
aesthetic decisions about color can become secondary to
marketing ones.
For designers, color means business.

THE COLOR INDUSTRIES


Color not only means business, it is a business.
The color industries are major, international and widely
varied.
Chemists and engineers create new colorants and the means
to apply them.
Testing laboratories determine that colorants are safe fro the
buying public.
Research organizations explore consumer color preferences
and analyze, chart, and publish observed color trends.
Psychologists explore the potential for positive and negative
reactions to colors by the buying public.

PRODUCING COLOR
A foundation of the color industry is the manufacture of subtractive
colorants, interior and exterior paints, furniture materials, printing inks,
ceramic glazes, automobile finishes, textile dyes, and colorants for
numberless other materials.
The manufacturing process is both art and science.
Each color agent is a chemical mix with specific properties that make it
compatible with its meant to color.
The necessity of working with legally permissible colorants adds a layer of
complexity to the manufacturing process.
Some colors may be difficult or even impossible, to produce for particular.
CMYK printing for example, lacks clear color in the orange family.
Bright, clear, reds are difficult to produce in ceramic glazes.
Substrates also matter. Linen fiber , for example, does not dye to bright
colors while silk takes dyes brilliantly.
Designers in every field are constrained by colors that are available to them.
They must consider what is possible before selecting what may be desirable.

COLOR SAMPLING
Many times a single product is produced in a range of color choices.
Some finishes are simply flat or glossy color, while others may
display color shifts and special reflecting characteristics.
In either case successful marketing requires that consumers be
provided with a convenient and accurate way to make a selection.
Colwell Industries, a century-old company, is the largest producer of
color merchandising tools for decorative products.
Colwells processes exemplify the cutting edge technology needed
to create color samples that simulate the colors and finishes of real
products.
The charts and display materials that they produce range from
interior and exterior architectural coatings to cars and cosmetics.
Chemists formulate colorants and finishes, and computers generate
the mixing formulas, but even at this level of technology the human
eye makes the final decision.

COLOR FORECASTING
A consumer economy relies on a constant demand for the new,
including new colors.
This demand originates at both ends of the market.
Consumers what a fresh look, and producers make a conscious
effort to step up sales by offering goods in new colors.
Manufacturers depend on their ability to anticipate which new
colors will be preferred by the purchasing public.
Even electronic devices, once available only in industrial black or
gray, can now be purchased in fashion colors.
Color, and marketing interact more closely than in the area of
consumer color preferences.
Hundreds of organizations and individuals provide research and
prediction of incoming color trends for target markets and target
industries.

COLOR AND IDENTITY


A second goal of color marketing is the attempt to establish a link in the
public mind between a specific color and specific product.
Coca-Cola has its signature red,
United Parcel Service trucks are brown,
McDonalds arches are dependably golden.

Color and form together can be extremely successful in establishing a


color-product link.
Color is a secondary identifier, only rarely does a color alone identify a
product.
Some colors are so closely associated with a product that they have been
trademarked.
A trademark is a legal designation that protects a companys use of a
specific image, color, or combination of these for a particular kind or
product.
Color identifies the source of the product or service and distinguishes it
from competing products of the same type.

PALETTES, COLOR AND HISTORY


Color forecasting attempts to predict the upcoming popularity of single
colors, it also predicts palettes.
A palettes is a group of colors that is characteristics of something like a
culture, an artist, or a time period.
A palette can also be a collection of colors given an assigned meaning,
like a spring apparel line marketed as Easter-egg pastels, or a fall palette
of rusts and bronzed greens.
Palettes shift in response to outside forces like new technology, exposure
to new cultures, politics, and fashions.
Certain palettes even provide a clue to the age of objects.
Color cycles are stages in the continually shifting consumer preference
for certain palettes.
A color cycle represents a prevalence of certain colors in the context of a
particular time and place.

TRADITIONAL COLORS
No matter how successful a current color trend may be, consumers at all
economic levels continue to demand products in traditional colorings.
There are traditional colors fro some items of apparel-bridal wear and
hunting gear are classic examples, but the market for traditional colors is
particularly strong in home furnishings textiles.
Years of accumulated grimes mute even the most durable, colorants, and
current levels of air pollution accelerate the deterioration.
Mot only are colors altered by soiling and oxidizing the various colors in
a composition alter at different rates.
Sophisticated techniques of analysis now make it possible for the original
color of painting, textiles, and decorative objects to be determined with
greater accuracy.
Present-day research and restoration approaches have caused a revolution
in historic preservation.

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