An industry acknowledged color Expert + CMF Designer, 

Tara learned early,  

color matters.

Her color story begins at youth with capitalizing on color to increase sales of her hand crafted ceramics. Today, Tara continues her pursuits with color, strategizing with every design to trigger intended outcomes.

Why?  

It's only Human.

 

Favorite Hue Projects.    Spaces.

Believing efficacious interiors are a 'collective of elements,' each nuance contributing OR subtracting, Tara believes color cannot be separated from this whole.

Children Healthcare of Atlanta (all carpets custom colored)

Children Healthcare of Atlanta (all carpets custom colored)


 

ColorChildren's Healthcare of Atlanta

ColorATT Midtown

Color is FREE! Even budget-driven interiors cannot escape color’s magic wand. Tara’s architectural color applications transform corporate and healthcare spaces to tantalizing experiences.

(Left) Children's Healthcare of Atlanta - IIDA BOB Awards "Best of Show." (Above) ATT Midtown Atlanta - ASID Excellence Design Award.


Favorite Hue Projects. Products.

Tara’s color applications are industry recognized for successfully leveraging manufacturer product designs to trigger consumer desire and promote human health. 

  

ColorTonik World

Hospitality + Residential, Rotomold

 
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Roto-mold forms designed by Karim Rashid, Ms. Hill CMF designs 11 sku "Pop" color palette, along with providing Tonik World with a deep-dive in global and US hospitality trend data.  

 

ColorTonik World

Hospitality + Residential, Rotomold

 
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Roto-mold forms designed by Karim Rashid, Ms. Hill CMF designs 10 sku "Bliss" color palette, along with providing Tonik World with a deep-dive in global and US hospitality trend data. 

Tonik World table in palette color: Ballet Slipper

Tonik World chair in palette color: Parisian Sky

 

ColorNorix Furniture

Intensive Use, Rotomold

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CMF designing Norix’s 10 sku "The Naturals" color palette (for roto-mold furniture), and narrating each color’s healing story, Tara also provides Norix with a deep-dive in global/US Corrections + Behavioral HC data.

 

ColorNorix Furniture

Intensive Use Rotomold

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CMF designing Norix’s 4 sku "The High Brights" color palette (for roto-mold furniture), and narrating each color’s healing story, Tara also provides Norix with a deep-dive in global/US Corrections + Behavioral HC data.

 

ColorLittleFISH

Residential, Printed Textiles

Tara designs reactive dye digital textile patterns for "mixy-mixings" for home + fashion goods (more designs can be viewed @ http://www.making-it-beautiful.com.)

GOOD DESIGN award winners and Silver ASID Design Excellence Award recipients. 

 

ColorDupont Innovations

Healthcare + Hospitality, Solid Surface

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Tara designed and colorized DuPont Building Innovation’s Healing Color Collection (partial showing).  

She also was commissioned by DuPont Building Innovation to be the collections Brand Voice, National Lecturer, product brander, + Whitepaper author.

ColorAnthropologie

Apparel, Hue Clues Denim

Tara provides Anthropologie with color directives and writes their denim Hue Clues "color story statements.”

 

ColorEnviroLeather

contract + Residential, TPE Faux

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Tara analyzed the existing California Faux Series. She CMF re-positioned all by recommending colors to obsolete, formulated 24 new colors, and re- packaged all for promotional strategies.

 

ColorDesigntex

healthcare + hospitality, Solution Dyed Wovens

Ms. Hill teamed with Designtex to design ( pattern + colors) their Josephine Collection of wovens for Healthcare + Hospitality. She also narrated the collection’s - and each designs’ -promotional stories.

ASID GOLD Design Excellence Award Recipient

 

ColorEnviroLeather

Healthcare + Hospitality, Digital Printed Faux

Tara teamed with EnviroLeather to design (pattern and colors) their digital faux, eco-friendly, Petite Florets Series for Healthcare.

 

ColorIOA Furniture

Healthcare + Hospitality, Lounge Seating

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Tara designed Oliver Furniture Collection of lounge + tandem seating and occasional tables for IOA Furniture.  She developed for IOA all Oliver's standard finishes and promotional color applications.

GOOD DESIGN award winners and ASID Gold + Silver Design Excellence Award Recipients.

 

ColorIOA Furniture

Healthcare, occassional Tables

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Tara designed and colorized IOA Furniture's Cantilever + Momo Tables. She customized acrylic and epoxy coating colors for series. 

Cantilever Tables are GOOD DESIGN award winners.

 

ColorKwalu

Healthcare + EDU

Explorative palette studies with varying manufacturer materials for Kwalu’s 3D Room scenes. Visit “Storyteller” (bottom of page) to view final produced scenes.

Tara is an industry acknowledged: 

Color Theorist + Implementer.

Well researched in color’s physics and philosophies, Tara believes color positively impacts equilibrium and physiology. She also knows color provides joy, promotes action, and SELLS. 


“Just as sound, scent, and touch can uplift, inspire, calm, - so can color.”  

A youth selling her hand crafted ceramic wares at tradeshows, Tara observed people's STRONG emotional reaction to hues.

She quickly learned, color is emotional and…

COLOR SELLS.  

 
Click + read. In a linkedin article Tara explains the science of color and how us humans experience it.

Click + read. In a linkedin article Tara explains the science of color and how us humans experience it.


With discipline, Tara has assertively proofed color's ability to humanize man-made environments and products to destigmatize institutional spaces and enrich office and home… and even revive mundane material characteristics.

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Educational Sharings

Lecturers, Whitepapers, articles

Tara has lectured in every major U.S. city, throughout Canada, and to university student groups on the physics + science of color and color's contributions to design and promote human wellness.   

She has developed color subject collaterals for: Dupont Building Innovations, LG Hausys, The Mohawk Group, Tandus|Centiva, Anthropologie, Norix Furniture, and Hyundai.

 

Physic of Color

A sampling: she reviews of the physics of color + surrounding theories of its physiologically impact to humans.

 

What is Color?

Partially displayed, Ms. Hill speaks to 6 fundamental color topics which (she feels) are needed to best understand color.     

 

Color Topics

Click + read - Concetta Antico, the only confirmed human tetrachromat!

Click + read - Concetta Antico, the only confirmed human tetrachromat!


 

Tara’s Color White Papers

Norix: The Role of Color In Humanizing Correctional Facilities

Norix: The Role of Color In Humanizing Correctional Facilities

Norix: The Role of Color In Humanizing Behavioral Healthcare Facilities

Norix: The Role of Color In Humanizing Behavioral Healthcare Facilities

click + read.

DuPont Corian: Using Color to Create Healing Environments.

DuPont Corian: Using Color to Create Healing Environments.

Universal Respones to Color

A partial showing of Ms. Hill's color research and reports and whitepapers.