Color is all you need is an inspirational 2 days class by Pantone and sketching class taught by Mary Phan artist/creator of Very Mary Inspired and The Sketchbook Series. After using her sketching skills as both an interior designer and to illustrate design concepts as an event designer, Mary has developed an experience that aims to teach creative professionals and any creative individuals in between how to use sketching to bring ideas to life. The Sketchbook Series was initially designed for creative professionals in the events industry, but has been embraced by interior designers, students, and so many others! If you're a designer, planner, florist, baker, illustrator grapich designer, or just love being creative and want to learn how to sketch, this class is for you!
You will know everything about using Pantone colors for your business, color theory and trends, what is behind the Pantone color of the year! Mary Phan's course will be UNIQUE: She will go over lessons on how to concept dessert stations, talk about color theory, introduction to 1 point perspectives to concept a tabletop design, and introduce to you a quick way to concept a room layout. All of these lessons will help you to bring your clients ideas to life! Even if you feel you can not draw, Mary will walk you step by step through all the lessons and she promises to leave you feeling inspired! All attendees will receive a Pantone goodie bag and their own sketch kit to continue to practice on their own.

To get your creative juices flowing, we will have coffee/tea and morning pastries and will continue with a lavish lunch savored only for the best. You will feel well taken care of and delighted with the industries finest designers to share in this wonderful experience! We cannot wait to delight and surprise you with this one of a kind event.

Program

Day 1: Pantone conference

9:00 AM Welcome and Introduction of Pantone company, importance of color in purchasing decision

9.15 AM Colour Theory
* What’s colour?
* How do we perceive colour ?
* How light affects color: what’s metamarism?

9.45 AM TREND presentation
* General Trends in consumer behavior

10.45 AM COFFEE BREAK

11.15 AM * Color Trends 2017/2018 for Wedding (Specialist form Pantone Color Institute)

12.30 PM LUNCH

1.30 PM Color handling on a professional and global workflow
* Color Selection: Risks in working with insufficient samples
* Color Communication: Can you talk about colour?
* Color Match in different materials: How can you get color globally controlled in Fabric? How in Plastic? How in print?
* Color Communication: Pantone products and services (e.g. how can you convert a Pantone color into CMYK? How can you convert a Pantone TCX color into a Pantone C code?)
* Color Control: Visual vs digital
* Color goes digital: Are you prepared for the future?

3.00 PM COFFEE BREAK

3.30 PM Where do trends come from?
* Some backgrounds about how Pantone is finding our colour trends (e.g. Color of the Year 2016)

3.45 PM Color Psychology
* How our background, heritage and culture influence our favourite colour
* Regional differences of Colors
* Meaning of colours in general

4.15 PM Case Studies and Pantone Marketing Stories
* Exciting global marketing stories presented in videos
* Professional case studies, how other companies work with Pantone color standards

4.30 PM Use and test all Pantone products, ask questions one by one

* Pantone will bring all Pantone Products, all measurment devices with them for attendees to test.
**Attendees can bring some recently approved samples with them for Pantone to measure them and give some professional feedback
6.00 PM End of workshop

8.00 PM – SPECTACULAR PANTONE PARTY

Day 2: Event design & sketching with Mary Phan and The Sketchbook series

9.00 AM Welcome and Introduction

9:15 AM – 9:45 AM Go over quick texture lessons

9:50AM – 10:25 AM Choosing Pantone colors + How to shade + Color using copic markers

COFFEE BREAK

11.00 – 12:30 PM Intro into 2D perspectives (Dessert Station)

LUNCH

1:45 – 3PM 1 point perspective (Tabletop design)

COFFEE BREAK

3.30 PM -5.30 PM Quick in room perspective – Quick protyping

FAQs

What are my transport/parking options for getting to and from the event?

The Hotel is located in downtown Milan in the historic part of the city. The Hotel is situated on a one-way narrow street, from which large motor coaches are restricted. A Taxi or Uber are the best transportation means to get there. You can easily reach the hotel by walk from the closest tube station MM Montenapoleone (yellow line).

How can I contact the organiser with any questions?

You can reach the organizer at the following e-mail address: hello@italyinspires.com

What's the refund policy?

Please refer to our terms & conditions at the following link:

https://www.italyinspires.com/terms-conditions/

Fees are non-refundable and do not include Accomodation, transportation, city tax and airfaires.

Is my registration fee or ticket transferrable?

Fees may be transferred to another guest upon written request.