A colonial home in Mackinac Island, Michigan, which is part of the
Up North region. The colors of PPG’s UP North Color Collection were
selected by area designers with the beauty of nature in mind. "Homes
in the Up North region often have large windows allowing the scenes
of nature to flow right inside the home," said Lynn Pettyjohn, Allied
ASID Member, designer and contributor to the palette.
edge of paint products and interior design.
The Michelle Winick Color Collection premiered at Eagle Paint
and Wallpaper in Englewood, New Jersey, and Ricciardi Brothers
in Morristown and Paterson, New Jersey in March 2011. The Muralo Company is headquartered in Bayonne, New Jersey. For more
info visit www.michellewinickdesign.com or www.muralo.com.
Muralo Paints’ Michelle Winick Color Collection works with the paint
makers Ultra Ceramic Waterborne interior finishes.
look unique to the Up North area.
The Up North Palette is part of PPG Pittsburgh Paints Voice
of Color Program and is available at Complete Paint and Supplies in Harbor Springs, MI, and Petoskey and Northwood Paint
and Supply in Traverse City, MI. Contributors to the palette include Tom and Gwen Bischoff, owners of Northwood Paint and
Supply; Chris Smrekar, owner of Complete Paint and Supplies;
and Interior Designers Rita Whaley, Allied ASID Member, and
Ann Freckelton, ASID, of Design2, LLC; Lynn Pettyjohn, Allied
ASID Member, of Lynnteriors; and Linda Dean Stallman, ASID,
of Interior Design Inc.
Muralo Paint launches the Michelle Winick
Color Collection
The Michelle Winick Color Collection is a new line launched by the
Muralo Paint Company. The new line was created to work exclusively with Muralo’s Ultra Ceramic
Waterborne interior finishes.
This collection of colors is designed to give consumers a new
way of looking at color with less
confusion, and with a clear vision
of the final result, according to the
company. The color cards displayed in the collection are handcrafted using the actual paint to
deliver true color representation.
The color collection has neutral
tones, earthy tones and serene colors, along with warmer and accent
colors. The Michelle Winick Color
Collection also provides coordi-
nating ceiling and trim combinations for every color. Michelle
Winick is a well-known local decorator with an extensive knowl-
X-Rite launches ColorDesigner PLUS
X-Rite Inc. has launched its new ColorDesigner PLUS software
package that aims to increase profits of paint retailers and manufacturers by improving the process of color picking, matching
and custom mixing architectural paints.
Designed to work with all major types of paint dispensing
equipment, ColorDesigner PLUS gives users more options to search
paint collections and match colors, input data for new families of
paints, create recipes for small scale manufacturing and connect
with X-Rite’s Capsure instrument, a tool for contractors and interior designers to
pick and match
paint colors at
worksites.
“ColorDesigner
PLUS is a universal
software package
for paint retailers
and paint manufacturers,” said
Dave Visnovsky, X-Rite product manager responsible for
the program. In developing the package, X-Rite has
incorporated the
recommendations of major paint manufacturers and trade and retail point-of-sales users at a number of the more than 15,000 ColorDesigner installations worldwide.
X-Rite has designed the new software so that paint companies
and retailers in any market can link ColorDesigner PLUS with
their existing colorant dispenser equipment.
The ColorDesigner PLUS package also can be used by smaller
paint manufacturers to calculate recipes for custom-sized paint
batches of up to hundreds of liters or gallons. The company said
ColorDesigner PLUS is a cost-effective alternative to X-Rite’s sophisticated laboratory software that is used by large paint manufacturing companies. CW
X-Rite’s new software is designed to increase prof- itability of paint retailers and manufacturers by im- proving in-store efficiency and data management.
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April 2011
