Please join our color & design team as we celebrate HOLI Festival of Colors with five colorful CEU offerings. All presentations are IDCEC, AIA, and NKBA approved.
Featured Color: Blank Canvas
Trauma Informed Design - Breaking the Stigma (HSW)
March 14, 2025
9:30 AM – 10:30 AM EST
Color influences all aspects of design and needs to be considered when establishing the use of a building. The goal of trauma informed design is to use empathy to create environments that promote a sense of calm, safety, dignity, empowerment, and well-being for all occupants. This can be achieved by adapting spatial layout, thoughtful furniture choices, visual interest, light and color, art, and biophilic design. This course explains why all design decisions should be filtered through the overlapping lenses of psychology, neuroscience, physiology, and cultural factors.
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Featured Color: Warmstone
The Technology of Paints and Coatings (HSW)
March 14, 2025
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM EST
When a surface requires painting, it is important to select the proper paint or coating system for the right service requirement. This program will enlighten the participant on the contents of a paint product and the contributions that each content provides to the paint. It will also review the importance of proper surface preparation prior to painting and the various technologies and coatings systems available. The presentation will also include information on options to consider when a low carbon footprint is required.
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Featured Color: Brandy Snaps
Color Theory & Application
March 14, 2025
12:30 PM – 1:30 PM EST
In this course, we will take a deep dive into color including its importance, the impact it has on a space and its users, perceptions, impact of lighting, associations, emotions and more. The challenges of color can be overwhelming - understanding the reasons behind the variances will allow the viewer to create color schemes with ease and confidence. This course provides a foundation in Color 101 - knowledge that is critical in developing impactful color schemes for interior and exterior projects for both residential and commercial applications.
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Featured Colors: Pitter Patter, Crumb Cookie
The Science of Color
March 14, 2025
2:00 – 3:00 PM EST
Some of the earliest chemistry was to make and isolate pigments for paints. Fast forward to today’s technology or science of color manufacturers are constantly examining and updating two types of pigments: organic and inorganic. Through these advancement in colorant technologies, we are able to fully understand sheen, texture, reflectance curves and heat management. The presentation will also include information on newer technologies in that will give the architect/specifier more options to consider when choosing color, paint and stain systems.
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Featured Colors: Purple Basil, Gray Heron
2025+ Global Color and Design Trends
March 14, 2025
3:30 – 4:30 PM EST
The driver of our 2025 global trend forecast is Kinetic - signifying a shift from merely embracing change to actively requiring movement and adaptation. Extraordinary new developments will shape the next decade, including an increased self-reliance and value of individual choices, climate-born emergencies pushing consumers to seek protective products, and new tools exponentially expanding our creativity, making previously unimaginable tasks possible and encroaching on activities once thought to be uniquely human.
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