#earnestly designed

[earnestlydesigned]

Color Palette Trends for 2017; New York Fashion Week

Pantone’s Top 10 Spring 2017 Colors Counts on New York Fashion Week for Inspiration Niagara, Primrose Yellow, Lapis Blue, Flame and Island Paradise were the leading five spring colors based on Pantone's analysis of New York designers' spring runway collections. It should come as no surprise that the color palettes unveiled each year in New York for Spring Collections are the first relevant sneak peek at what is to come in design color use across all mediums. Expect to see these colors finding their way in web and graphic design immediately and then spreading into motion design, home, and commercial design. I have created a quick reference guide with the textile dye color to hex conversion for non-textile applications. https://www.pantone.com/fashion-color-report-spring-2017 New York Fashion Week 2017 - Pantone Top 10 Colors Pantone to Hex Conversion.

[earnestlydesigned]

THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER

Business-to-business web presence & social media re-branding campaign.

[earnestlydesigned]

DESIRE. OBTAIN. CHERISH.

Taken in the alley between 6th and 5th streets. DTLA in the summer 2010. This is the alley that I spun my fur son nearly everyday for three years. This piece is LONG GONE. 

Gone, but not forgotten...

[earnestlydesigned]

I just came across a fantastic graphic design and typography magazine from Switzerland called IDPURE. In the current issue the Founder and Editor-in-Chief Thierry Hausermann quotes Albert Einstein reflecting on the economic crisis of 1929.  It does appear that not much has changed in nearly a century. 

"Let's not pretend that things will change if we doing the same things. A crisis can be a real blessing to any person, to any nation. For all crises bring progress. Creativity is born from anguish, just as the day is born from the dark night. It is in crisis that inventiveness, discoveries and great strategies are born. He who overcomes crisis overcomes himself, without being 'over-come.' He who blames his failures on the crisis neglects his own talent, and is more interested in problems than solutions. Incompetence is the true crisis. The greatest inconvenience of people and nations is the laziness with which they attempt to find solutions to their problems. There's no challenge without a crisis. Without challenges, life becomes a routine, a slow agony. There's no merit without crisis. It's in the crisis where we can show the very best in us. Without a crisis, any wind becomes a tender touch. To speak about a crisis is to promote it. Not to speak about it is to exalt conformism. Let us work hard instead. Let us put an end, once and for all, to the menacing crisis that represents the tragedy of not being willing to overcome it"

True then. True now. Do not sit. Stand. This is not the time for self-restraint. It is the time for exertion of ideas and actions.