Color Conversation
STIR® columnists and creative personalities share their perspectives on color and design!
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Color and Design Trends From ICFF 2019
Sue Wadden shares key insights on design trends at ICFF in New York.
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How Play Can Inspire Paint Color Selection
Making a place for more play in your design process.
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ColorWise™ With Sue Wadden: Maximalist Color
From colorful fanny packs and outrageous dad sneakers on the runway to animal prints and bold colors in interiors, the maximalist aesthetic has become big business.
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Playing With Fire: Shou Sugi Ban
Expand your palette with this Japanese technique of charring wood surfaces.
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Cabinet of Curiosities
Harvard Art Museums scientist Narayan Khandekar collects pigments and protects color’s role in our artistic heritage.
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How We Create the Sherwin-Williams Color Forecast
Inside the Sherwin-Williams color forecasting process, including how the forecast was narrowed down to three palettes for 2018.
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Designing for the White House Historical Association
Meet a former Student Design Challenge winner who is now a curator for the White House Historical Association.
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Prima Pâtissière
Maggie Austin creates colorful cakes for royalty and Hollywood stars. Learn how she constructs her delicate artworks before they fall to the fork.
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Lights, Camera, Color With Wes Anderson’s Colorist
The Grand Budapest Hotel won three Oscars for visual excellence. Jill Bogdanowicz made sure color expressed itself fully in every frame.
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Designer John Gidding on Finding Color Inspiration
STIR® sits down with Curb Appeal’s John Gidding for a look into what drives his designs and color choices.
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Meet Sue Wadden: New Director of Color Marketing
STIR® sits down with Sue Wadden, the new director of color marketing at Sherwin-Williams, to find out what excites her most about her new job, design and, of course, her favorite Sherwin-Williams color.
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Transforming Chalk Art Into a Commercial Design Business
Partners and parents Max and Johnna Holmgren are taking chalk beyond the playground, creating stylish artwork for corporations, events and well-dressed walls everywhere.
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Survey Results: How Designers Collaborate With Painting Contractors
To help celebrate Sherwin-Williams National Painting Week, we surveyed design pros to learn the most effective ways to work with painting contractors.
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Jackie‘s Notebook
Jackie Jordan is the former director of color marketing at Sherwin-Williams and had more than 23 years of experience in design, specification consulting and color marketing.
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Full Spectrum
Kelley Stratton is an interior designer who specializes in residential and model homes. She's the owner of Salt Interiors and publishes its popular blog.
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Living Style
Kelly Porter, interior designer, owns Porter House Designs, and publishes Color Sizzle, a widely read design blog.
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Material Color
Phillip Koski is an architect and founder of Koski Architecture, a Minneapolis-based architecture firm with varied expertise in residential, corporate, cultural and urban design projects.