Hello Designers wants to give a big warm hug to everyone who helped make our first year in business a BIG sucess. We have a lot of exciting new developments right around the corner, but we are still keeping it on the DL until we are ready to share. (I am so bad at secrets, I’ll give you a hint: product lines and partnerships, but don’t tell anyone I told you:)

What a better way to introduce the new year with Pantone’s 2010 color of the year, drumroll please… Turquoise (PMS 15-5519)! “In many cultures, Turquoise is believed to be a protective talisman, a color of deep compassion and healing, and a color of faith and truth, inspired by water and sky.” It reminds me of my Mexican honeymoon last May. Now, present day, in Chicago it’s a balmy 16 degrees. A girl can dream, right?

Planning your own wedding? Get ready for this, Pantone has tools and inspirations for wedding colors too! Check out my photographer, Edyta’s, blog for all the details.

In 2008 an average of .32% of adults started a new business each month, a higher rate than in previous years. Raise your glass, here is to new beginnings!

Call them accidental entrepreneurs, unintended entrepreneurs or forced entrepreneurs. A year and a half into the Great Recession, with the jobless rate hovering near double digits, corporate refugees like Lisa Marie Grillos of San Francisco are trying to fend for themselves.

NYTimes article by Mickey Meece