Color Inspiration

Whether created by an Old Master or your four year old aspiring artist a piece of artwork that appeals to you is a great place to find a color scheme.

A Quick Chat With Pop Artist Michael Albert

Coffee table books are geared towards inspiration but any book that has color pictures, graphics or even an interesting cover can spark your imagination.

White Rooms

Cakes, cookies and candies are a yummy place to find a sweet color combination.

Colors Are Sweet in Chicago

Color inspiration: MMMMacaroons

Look at color schemes that have worked successfully for other designers as a starting point for your own scheme.

Color, confidence and the palettes of Jeffrey Bilhuber

A colorful interview: Amy Lau talks inspiration and color

Half Inspired

Trims, findings and embellishments often have unusual or sophisticated color combinations that can be pulled out into an entire design.

Awe-inspiring colors and color combinations can be found on the runway of top designers around the world.

Lilly Pulitzer celebrates 50 years with A Colorful Cause

Whether looking at the hues within a single flower or a landscape overflowing with color the garden offers inspiration for your color scheme.

Purple & Green Garden

Flower Power

Color Inspiration: Blue and Purple

Raving About These Roses

A fabulous fabric can set the color scheme for the entire room.

Whose On First-Home or Fashion?

Idea books and magazines offer instant color scheme ideas but rather than duplicate their ideas get creative and come up with your own interpretation of the ideas.

Get Your Daily Dose of Color

The Color of Cranberries

Swiss Chard Palette

Companies spend thousands of dollars to create just the perfect combination of colors for their logos. Why not use a logo you like as the springboard for your own scheme.

While you may not like junk mail it can be a great source of eye-catching colors. Companies go to great lengths to use words and colors that grab your attention so before you toss it in the recycling bin you might want to give the envelope a second look.

Of course that might have to wait until you have had a chance to pour through your favorite magazine, which is sure to be filled with color inspiration ideas in everything from the articles to the layouts and ads.

In each issue: Color and trends February 2008

Color trend: I'd buy that! Part 1

Finding Inspiration, Not Insanity From the Fresh Fallen Snow

A Visual Tsunami of the Color of the Year

Color & Motif Trend: Coral (Yes, still!)

Tree at Williamsburg Inn

A Colorful History: America's First Thanksgiving

An Olympic Inspiration

A Colorful Event: Behr's 'Ultra' Evening

Dwell's Ralph Lauren Paint Palettes

Artist and Master Colorist Michael James

Quilt of Many Colors

Lord & Taylor Have It In the Bag

Holiday Windows NYC Style

Whether you get to your destination after a long journey or via a few clicks of your keyboard the colors of other places and cultures can be instant inspiration for a color scheme.

Inspiration: Charleston style

I like Parisian palettes in the springtime, how about you

Color inspiration: a citrus hued wedding in Capri

Color inspiration: the style and palette of Morocco

Play with color swatches, paint, fabrics, pater scraps or whatever inspires you to arrive at your own unique combination of colors.

A Colorful Interview: Chris Webb, GM's Lead Creative Designer

Palette of the Pros

Write your own color story by keeping a file of pictures of color combinations and schemes that you like. Then look at them to see what colors or kinds of colors (bright, muted, pale, etc) they have in common. These common colors or characteristics of the colors reveal what hues best reflect your personal style.

Exotic animals can inspire both color and patterns.

New Zoo Review- Part 1

New Zoo Review- Part 2

An Animal Of A Different Color