As part of the meeting, PPG colour experts will engage in interactive and dynamic workshops to discuss design trends, consumer preferences and priorities across each market as well as the role global, regional and cultural factors play in influencing customers. Attending colour experts will represent varied industries served by PPG including automotive, aerospace, architectural, consumer products, industrial and optical.

 

“Through this unique workshop, PPG’s global colour leaders can leverage expert resources and collaborate to understand colour’s impact in each market, providing unmatched education and offerings to our customers,” said Lenna Edgos Cominos, PPG market manager for strategic growth platforms. “By developing a more thorough overview of colour’s influence, PPG can help customers use it as a business vehicle to express their individuality or establish competitive advantage.”

 

The group will focus on the power of colour, best practices for colour communication tools and how product innovations and technologies impact surface design. The workshop will conclude with each expert contributing to a companywide trend forecast report used to help guide customers’ colour-related choices. The perspectives of the participating colour experts, most with 10 to 30 years of colour planning and styling experience, will enrich the report, which will be released by PPG later this year. Keep an eye on collisionrepairmag.com for this report when it's released. 

 

The workshop provides an unmatched opportunity to compare colour trends and examine colour’s use on a variety of surfaces and textures across markets and regions, allowing attending experts to analyze industry trend overlap and define companywide, global colour forecasts for both short- and long-term applications.

 

“The influence of colour is often underestimated,” said Jane E. Harrington, North American manager for automotive colour styling. “PPG’s expert colour capability results from our unique ability to gather current macrotrends from across industries and regions to create palettes that best suit our customers.”

 

PPG’s extensive colour capabilities are informed by a fact-based approach that involves researching colour and how it affects people. From design through application, the company offers unique expertise to help guide customers’ colour selections for markets ranging from automotive to consumer electronics. For more information, please visit ppgcolorshare.com.