As a designer, you know that there are probably millions of  ways to arrange color palettes. Our environment is continually informing us of colors that best represent a slice of our humanity at any particular time. Technology, current events and philosophical beliefs are just some things that move and shape our color trends.

Since following color trends is an ever changing, organic and creative process, there will never be one definitive resource on the matter. However, designers and manufacturers must stay on top of these patterns, to incorporate them, to respond to them or at least, just to be aware of them.

In my efforts to stay on top of this ever changing and inspiring world of color, I have created a handy color trends toolbar to include quick and easy links to some of my favorite sites on COLOR.

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As a special gift to my e-zine subscribers, I would love to share this very helpful color trend toolbar - “Cherish COLOR”.

• Designed for anyone who researches color and trends along with those who just love color and art
• Especially helpful for manufacturers, licensees and artists
• Over 30 sites that celebrate color will be at your fingertips on a daily basis
• It works on Windows, Mac and Linux

This easy to install tool bar has links to the most popular and useful sites in the areas of:

• Color Trends + Palettes (Sites, Blogs, Google Search, Books)
• Color Mixing (Tools and Software)
• Color Me Fun (+ Games)
• Built in Google search engine
• Internet Radio (Add your favorite stations)
• Note Pad
• Weather
• E-mail Notifier
• Plus customize it by adding your “gadgets”

This is my gift to you for subscribing to my e-zine.

I would love to share this color trends toolbar with you as my gift for signing up for the Something to Cherish Souvenirs E-zine. Occasionally, I will send out an e-mail that will update you on the latest trends, inspiration artistic happenings with Something to Cherish with a sprinkle of whimsy and fun.

When you sign up please note if you are a licensee/manufacturer/art buyer, an artist, media member, retail store, art fan or end consumer. This will help me send you only the information that is of interest to you.

You will get an e-mail to confirm your subscription; once you are “opted-in” you will automatically receive instructions on how to download your color trends toolbar.

Get Cherish’s “Color Trends Toolbar” and her article on “Leveraging LinkedIn’s Networking Power for Art Licensors” when you sign up today!

Art Licensor and marketing maven, Tara Reed, has recently put her outstanding knowledge base of art licensing information in to this thoughtful and easy to understand e-book. Perfect for beginners, this 72 paged book will walk you through everything you need to know to get started putting your art on products.

Tara Reed has wonderfully jam packed this how to guide with information that you would normally pay several thousand dollars and years of trial and error to learn. Plus you get three insider interviews (artist, agent, manufacturer) that will illustrate clearly how the licensing process really works. If you are serious about learning how you can succeed in this very exciting industry, you would be crazy not to get a copy and give your art career the support it deserves.

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Hosted by the Office of Advocacy of the
U.S. Small Business Administration on 08/08/2008 in NY

How Will the Orphan Works
Bill Economically Impact Small Entities?

http://videos.cmitnyc.com/asip.html

“A Seminal Event”
“Unprecedented”
“The most effective advocacy in
opposition to these bills I have seen.”
“The Gathering of the Tribes”

These are some of the comments we’ve received from last Friday’s Roundtable on Orphan Works, conducted by the Small Business Administration. Artists, photographers, songwriters, musicians, writers and spokesmen for collateral businesses all made this the best attended Roundtable the SBA has conducted.

As one member of the audience said, perhaps the only good thing about the Orphan Works bill is that it’s brought so many creative communities together. The full house is the best measure of the concern creators have about this effort to undermine copyright law.

Key points to emerge from the discussion:

• The high cost of digitizing and registering work with commercial databases will make compliance impossible for most artists.
• This will cause billions of unregistered works to fall into the public domain.
• To make money, commercial databases will have to promote and facilitate infringement.
• Infringer-friendly databases will compete with artists for clients.

As one panelist summed up:
this bill “will socialize costs and privatize profits.”

View the Roundtable Video Now

To learn more about who was there visit the IPA Blog

LEARN MORE & TAKE ACTION
AGAINST THESE BILLS: www.owoh.org

Please forward this message and link to every copyright holder you know.

Megan discusses the Orphan Works bill with Brenda and Joanne, July 2008 from:

www.whencreativityknocks.com

LEARN MORE & TAKE ACTION AGAINST THIS BILL: www.owoh.org

“Milton Glaser is…well, words nearly don’t do him justice…one of the most important, prolific and profound leaders in visual and graphic arts in your lifetime and his. He is personally responsible for the design and illustration of more than 300 posters for clients in the areas of publishing, music, theater, film, institutional and civic enterprise, as well as those for commercial products and services. The image above and the essay below are reproduced here with permission. Read on to discover his sage advice with words that ring as true today as when written in 2001. Peruse his bio and work on his Milton Glaser Web site for more essays and insights into this man’s creative force, remarkable accomplishments and matchless oeuvre.”-Barney Davey

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