Denise Turner-Keynote, Upholstery & Trim Int., Las Vegas 3-8-12

As the COLORS Turn

2013 Fabric/Trim Color & Design Trends

Did you know that color is the primary reason for purchases more than 85% of the time and that colors turn every six months to a year based on world events? Being unaware of these turns can impact your bottom line.

Denise Turner- is an international color and design trend forecaster, speaker, author, certified interior designer and colorist. She will present a session designed to provide insights into consumers spending habits and how they affect manufacturing practices, sales and marketing.

Attendees will further learn how color forecasters track colors and trends and how they turn their knowledge into sellable goods. Turner will also provide examples of 2013 color trends and offer some insights into what might be driving them. http://aftermarket.org/Resources/Meetings/12TrimPreEvent.aspx

http://www.blog.colormarketing.org/2012/02/denise-turner-cmg-keynote-upholstery-trim-int-las-vegas-3-8-12/

Convention Lunch and General Session
Cosmopolitan Hotel, Las Vegas
Thursday, March 8
12:00-1:40

Many thanks to our generous sponsors:

 Color Turners-Turns The Art Of Color Into Profit

We help businesses and manufacturers make the best decisions where color choices are critical. By providing accurate and tangible ways to significantly reduce your business and manufacturing risks and turn that knowledge into increased sales and customer satisfaction.

http://www.colorturners.com/

denise@colorturners.com

Color & Light: Is Lighting Affecting Your Sales, Environment & Health

Denise Turner- Munsell Color Blog's Guest Writer  
Have you ever designed a graphics project, an interior, applied cosmetic or dressed yourself under one lighting condition and everything looked perfectly fine? But when you looked at the same colors in a different lighting environment they looked horrible?
Read more http://munsell.com/color-blog/color-light-perception/

Color Turners-Turns The Art Of Color Into Profit

We help businesses and manufacturers make the best decisions where color choices are critical. We provide accurate and tangible ways to significantly reduce your business and manufacturing risks and turn that knowledge into increased sales and customer satisfaction.
http://www.colorturners.com/
denise@colorturners.com

“Cuckoo for Color”

Join Our Team At The So. CA COLOR RUN!

Are you ready for the craziest, colorful, 5k of your life? You bet you are! Then join our team “Cuckoo for Color”.

The Color Run is a one of a kind experience that is less about speed and more about enjoying a color crazy day with your friends and family. It’s all about participants of all different speeds, ages, shapes, and sizes toeing the start line. Whether you are a casual morning mall walker or an Olympic athlete, the 3 miles of the Color Run course will be the most enjoyable real estate you’ve traveled in a VERY long time.

Where: Color Run is in Irvine

When: April 22, 2012

How much: $40.each *prices go up after March. 15th

Team name: “Cuckoo for Color” and enter the password “turner”.

Register: at http://thecolorrun.com/socal/

Contact: Denise Turner (909) 989-2395 colorturners@verizon.net

Color Turners-Turns The Art Of Color Into Profit

We help businesses and manufacturers make the best decisions where color choices are critical. We provide accurate and tangible ways to significantly reduce your business and manufacturing risks and turn that knowledge into increased sales and customer satisfaction.
http://www.colorturners.com/
denise@colorturners.com

Cookies are Powerful Treats

Yes! It's Girl Scout Cookie Time

By Denise Turner, ASID, CID, CMG
Color Turners

At a time when everyone’s making every dollar count, I’ll be the first to admit that it can be difficult to cough up $4.00 for a very small box of cookies. Even if those Thin Mints are perhaps the best thing that will ever cross your lips. But before you say no, to those adorable, pint-sized cookie peddlers, think again. The sales of Girl Scout Cookie help girls develop a strong sense of self-confidence, team building, goal setting, money management and much more. You see, cookies are powerful treats.

Now seriously! Can you think of anything that will give you this kind of return on your investment, for less than five bucks? So buy one, buy two, buy many because you’re investing in our future leaders.

You never know, one of those little girls might be our future US president or the scientist who discovers the cure for cancer or the leader who initiates world peace. While on a completely different scale, one of those little girls might go on to receive her Girl Scout Gold Award (highest award) and grow up to be an international colorist, Certified Interior Designer, speaker and author.

To learn “How The Girl Scouts Built Their Cookie Empire”, read this by the Business Insider. http://www.businessinsider.com/how-the-girl-scouts-built-their-cookie-empire-2011-3?op=1#ixzz1kxtyg1OR  Images by the Business Insider.


"Girl Scouting builds girls of courage, confidence and character, who make the world a better place."

Color Turners-Turns The Art Of Color Into Profit
We help businesses and manufacturers make the best decisions where color choices are critical. We provide accurate and tangible ways to significantly reduce your business and manufacturing risks and turn that knowledge into increased sales and customer satisfaction.
http://www.colorturners.com/

denise@colorturners.com

Got Small House?

Big Isn’t Always Better

In recent years, the answer was to call a contractor to make it bigger. However today’s soft housing market and high-dollar home equity loans have tempered consumer spending. In fact, smaller homes are in high demand because they are less expensive to purchase, maintain, heat and air condition. Here's how to maximize your home’s space without increasing its square footage.

• If your refrigerator backs up to the garage or closet, many times it can be recessed so that there is more kitchen space.
• Multifunctional furniture is critical. Storage ottomans serve as coffee tables and a place to conceal items when unexpected guest arrive.
• Tankless water heaters save space and money.
• Table and floor lamps add clutter. Recessed can lights free up valuable floor space.

Small homes encourage family interaction and are usually friendlier than larger homes; not to mention quicker to clean.


Color Turners-Turns The Art Of Color Into Profit
We help businesses and manufacturers make the best decisions where color choices are critical. By providing accurate and tangible ways to significantly reduce your business and manufacturing risks and turn that knowledge into increased sales and customer satisfaction. http://www.colorturners.com/
denise@colorturners.com

How to Avoid Being “That House” In Your Neighborhood

Outside Christmas Decorating Tips

By Denise Turner, ASID, CID, CMG
Color Turners

Carolers are singing, shoppers are busily shopping and the Clark Griswold, want-to-be decorators are digging through their dusty attics. Yes! It’s Christmas again. This one is for the overzealous guy or gal who takes the Christmas a bit too far. Every neighborhood has one; a Clark Griswold like in National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation.

Even though we all politely nod and chuckle at their over the top Christmas spirit; we equally think of the excess. I wouldn’t want to be there to see the look on their face, in January when they open their utility bills. Possibly these individuals didn’t get the trend memo that everyone’s using their resources wisely. Now don’t get me wrong. I enjoy “tasteful” and I repeat “tasteful” Christmas decorations as much as anyone.

So, if you’re my neighbor who lives around the corner and three houses up, or an aspiring Clark Griswold, here are some tips to avoid being “that house” for Christmas.

Safety First

Does your roofline make Santa quiver in his boots? Then hire professionals to do the job. Decorating with lights typically requires the use of a ladder and used improperly can lead to injuries. Approximately 2,500 people in the US are injured each year hanging Christmas lights. While we all agree that Christmas lights are beautiful, let’s not forget electricity can cause problems if not used properly. Christmas lights can get hot enough to burn or ignite other decorations. Cords can fray, causing a short.

Get A Plan
Preparation will save you time and reduce unnecessary trips to the hardware store. Measure and count garland, lights, hooks and ect.

Less Is More
Don’t over do it. This means don’t make your lawn levitate with multiple inflatables. Sure little kids love them. But seriously, a giant snow globe, a Ferris wheel, Mr. and Mrs. Santa Clause, Rudolph and a partridge in a pear tree.

Retro Metal Christmas Trees
The aluminum, 1960’s retro Christmas trees are popular again, but some words of caution. Never hang lights on them! The tree can short out the Christmas lights and cause a fire. The tree can also become charged with electricity and can shock someone. So if you don’t want to be the one responsible for electrocuting Santa Clause, be safe.

Please! No Music!!! Under no conditions is it appropriate to blare Christmas music from speakers out into the neighborhood. This especially means those songs by barking dogs or meowing cats.

Light Placement
Don’t just toss the lights around to shrubs and trees. Seriously! It’s not creative and it’s obvious that you were too lazy to drag the ladder out of the garage. Also use some discretion in deciding how many lights and what colors to hang.

Entry Door
A clear path to your front door is important and it should be obvious. Honestly your guests don’t want to wander over the candy cane bridge and through the Elf’s village in order to get to Grandmother’s house.

If you’ve not seen the 1989, Christmas Vacation, do so. It’s a "Top 10 Favorite Christmas Films" and my personal favorites.


Color Turners-Turns The Art Of Color Into Profit
We help businesses and manufacturers make the best decisions where color choices are critical. By providing accurate and tangible ways to significantly reduce your business and manufacturing risks and turn that knowledge into increased sales and customer satisfaction. http://www.colorturners.com/

denise@colorturners.com

Boxers or Briefs?

Men Show Your True Colors
Denise Turner, ASID, CID, CMG
Color Turners

As an international color and design trend forecaster, it’s always fun to find color hidden in unexpected places. I’ve often thought that my male European counterparts looked so sophisticated in their black and gray attire and that although it might be fine for them, I would never be able to live in those shadow colors. Well…they can’t either and their secret is out!

Believing that there are no mistakes and that everything happens for a reason I managed to end up in the men’s underwear section in Sokos, a must-see department store in Helsinki. Now this isn’t such a far stretch, sense I shop for the men in my life and research men’s neckties for color trends.

Much to my surprise, the classic colorless, boring boxers and briefs that fill my laundry basket at home were nowhere to be found. Instead, the shelves were full of fun, colorful whimsical underwear. Oh sure, I’ve seen brightly colored underwear for the guys before, but they were the cartoon superheroe chonies when my son was three-years-old (sorry Austin). These designs look more like swim trunks, than men’s intimate attire. Women have always dominated the flashy lingerie market. Welcome men.


Here are a couple examples:
http://www.bjornborg.com/
http://www.diesel.com/freshandbright/

So the next time you see a European man dressed in tints and shades of gray, don’t feel sorry for him. Just smile, because you know his colorful little secret.

Color Turners-Turns The Art Of Color Into Profit
We help businesses and manufacturers make the best decisions where color choices are critical. By providing accurate and tangible ways to significantly reduce your business and manufacturing risks and turn that knowledge into increased sales and customer satisfaction.
http://www.colorturners.com/


denise@colorturners.com