Builder Magazine: Dunn-Edwards Paints announced their 2017 Color of the Year this week, but this time around the decision was fueled by more than just popular design trends.
The color, "Honey Glow," is a warm golden yellow with brown undertones, which color expert for Dunn-Edwards Sara McLean said in a Tuesday news release is "a great color to make a bold statement in a room."
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This is awesome. It is so cool how people can use things like a color to save the world. When partnerships and collaborations like this one bring together a fine art with an organization or advocacy of something that is saving the world, it makes you wonder what art and creativity can't do. I have been hearing more and more about the decline of Bees and the real need to save as many bees as we can. There are so many products that a lot of us use in our daily lives that wouldn't be able to exist without the help of Bees. That is a big problem to have and often when problems like these arise its hard to know how to help. This story is a refreshing reminder that our art has power. It is so cool how we can use our art in some many different ways.
I think that this is a good way to bring attention to the honey bee extinction threat. Using the color pink seems to have been successful for breast cancer awareness, so maybe this can spread too. While I think that the intention and the color choice itself are great, I don’t think that it is showcased particularly well. I think the yellow worked well with the gray and wood tones, but the designers repeated that same neutral color palette throughout the video. When they did branch out in their color combinations, like the kid’s comforter, it didn’t really work. I don’t know how well this color will sell or if it will really become a trend in the coming year, but I hope that it at least succeeds in raising awareness.
I sure hope that this color also revitalizes this terrible, dark hell-year. I am not sure 2016 would be yellow. I suppose it has to do with Rio and the fact that the olympics were bright. But, more-over the olympics was green. And with the news and current events of this year that they claim to have used as influences, I don't think that the color would've been something else. Maybe with the election, it would've been a deep red or blue, or something to reflect the melancholy nature of this summer. But, I suppose the yellow is an optimistic gesture. I think this was just an excuse to support bees. Which, albeit is a great thing to support so I'm not that mad.
I do like the color, its beautiful and it brings to mind my favorite creature in the world- bees. I went to a seminar last year about having a city apiary. I would love to also contribute to saving the bees. So this is a good effort.
"Honey Glow embodies the trend toward the warming of all colors – from neutrals to non-neutrals." Again, another terrible sentence, from a boring article. All colors are warm now? Really? Ask the ocean. Also, what is the range from neutrals to non-neutrals? Is there a mid-neutral? I don't think so. Neutral to non-neutral is not a range, it is two separate sides. Pick one!
Now - onto the topic that actually matters: bees. Bees are so important. They make all of our food and flowers and they indirectly give us all of our oxygen. How would we survive without them? We won't. If me painting my room this kind of ugly color will save some bees, then so 'bee' it. People starting their own beehives is also a huge help because it gives the bees a home to go back to that will be protected. Maybe this organization should encourage that as well - maybe encourage people to build their own honeybee hives and painting them the 'color of the year!' I hope this non-profit raises some money for the honeybees, and end the 'bee'xtinction.
While I do not really like the actual color because yellow is kind of a mustard color and I don’t really love just yellow. I’m more of a cool color kind of person. I really do like how they are giving 10% of sales to save the bees. It’s a really important cause and it’s good to see the color of the year people using their influence for something good. I also like the video that explained why this is the color. Yellow is a really important color in design because without it it is really easy to make things look drab and dull. With just enough yellow you can brighten any piece of art without making it overwhelmingly yellow. It is a color that looks good with everything. The video also opened my eyes to what kinds of things the color of the year picker looks at from popular people to nature and the events of the times- especially the olympics. It really was a heartwarming video that made me change my mind a bit about liking the color.
Just the other day I was talking to my friends about how we as theater artists can use our platforms to change the world, even if what we're doing isn't life or death. And here is a great example of that. I agree with Monica, I'm not a fan of yellow in general. But I am a fan of bees and a super fan of living on a planet where I can grow things etc.
Okay but like.
This color is terrible. It is so gross. Where am I supposed to put this in my house? It goes with the colors they paired it with (the bone, the charcoal) but what else? And also, 10% is not a large percentage. For a paint color this ugly, they could have at least donated more money. I would not even think of buying this paint if it wasn't for the bees.
Also, this isn't even a pantone color. Next.
Yellow is a hard color to pull off. In home interiors it can be such a huge commitment. I commend the company for choosing something bold and vibrant. However, I would argue that versions of "Honey Glow" (the color of 2017) has already had its moment. The video speaks to its inspirations. Those ranging from fashions, designer color choices, the Olympics in Brazil... the list goes on. But all of the inspiration and research they have drawn upon happened in 2016. So how will Honey Glow extend into the new year? Was it not already the color of the year?
The color itself, though not my favorite, is exciting and contemporary. Though I do wish it was a cooler yellow, I agree that it can be a main statement in a room or brought in as a simple accessory. My favorite part about the both the color and the article is that they are donating 10 percent of the profits of their sales to the non-profit organization HoneyLove. Having worked for another organization that also donates some of its profits to charity, I can appreciate how rewarding it is to both work for and purchase from an organization that is not only good to their employees but the world around them. It is my hope that with each color selected as the "Color of the Year" that the paint company chooses a new non-profit to collaborate with.
Yeah, how about not? It would have been a great color for my Monet, and it’s for a great cause, but is it really a color that you want in your home? It looks good in model homes, photos, and renderings, but would you really want to wake up to that color every day? I think part of it is that I would never want a brown color on my walls to begin with, unless it was heavily tinted or maybe a bit dark on a single accent wall. I just straight would not put any yellow on walls at all. Not in the slightest. The brown base just makes it worse. I think it is interesting that none of the research images shown were a brown yellow but just yellow. I wonder if the cause was found first and then they found this color to match it, opposed to the other way around. Like I said, the color does look good in the examples given, I just don’t think it is a color one would want to look at every day in their home where they need to keep it clean.
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