Guest hosting Interior Design Chat on Twitter
Twitter has changed my life in ways I never ought to have imagined it would after I changed into fumbling round with it within the spring of '09. I do not forget questioning that it reminded me of radio static. It became noise and snippets of out of context conversations. "What's the factor?!" I recall asking absolutely everyone who changed into telling me was an awesome component it become. I kept at it because I wanted to peer what all of the fuss become about.
By the start of that summer season I should see what all the fuss was approximately and then some. In a be counted of months I went from being an outspoken doubter to an evangelist. Every high-quality career opportunity that's come my way considering the fact that closing summer has come my manner via Twitter. Someone very clever once stated that Facebook reconnects me to my past, Twitter introduces me to my future.
And so it was on that note that the great Nick Lovelady asked me to host Interior Designer Chat tonight from 6pm to 7pm EST. Interior Design Chat is an hour-long discussion on a specific topic and it's attended by hundreds of design pros from all over the world. It's run by Nick and Barbara Segal . Nick's a kitchen and bath designer in Alabama and Barbara's an interior designer who lives in Newport, RI and who works in Chicago and LA. Nick Tweets as @cupboards and Barbara Tweets as @NoirBlancDesign .
Group chats on Twitter use dedicated tags to separate chat-specific tweets from the rest of the Twitter Stream. Everyone who participates in Interior Designer Chat tags his or her messages with the hash tag #IntDesignerChat and the conversation just flows.
A guest host's job is to introduce five questions at regular intervals to lead the conversation and my topic tonight is color. I submitted my questions last Friday to the Interior Design Chat website and everybody who participates knows to check the site prior to the Tuesday night conversation.
The questions (with accompanying pix) I submitted are as follows:
1. Gloss paint finishes are enjoying a resurgence in the design press. Do you like this trend? What sheens to you normally specify for indoors paints?
2. Pantone's 15-559 Turquoise became named 2010's Color of the Year through Pantone. Has turquoise figured into your paintings this year? Why do you watched they picked turquoise?
3. When there may be a hot color available, turquoise as an example, are you more vulnerable to acessorize with it or might you use on things that can not be modified effortlessly (or cheaply) like a settee? What role do shade tendencies play in your work and why?
4. Sherwin-Williams lately issued 4 palette forecasts for 2011. I wrote about them on my weblog right here. Http://www.Kitchenandresidentialdesign.Com/2010/07/sherwin-williams-2011-coloration-forecast_30.Html The palettes seem like this:
Do you notice those colour combinations taking shape on your work? Is Sherwin-Williams onto some thing or have they ignored the boat? What colour combinations do you locate yourself coming back to again and again? How do trends impact that?
Five. What message do you want you could send to the folks who decide which colours are used or neglected (in any product class) in a given year?
So if you're a design professional, no matter where you are, please join us tonight when I host Interior Design Chat at 6pm EST. If none of this makes any sense to you, get thee to Twitter and meet your future.