Leatrice Eiseman is an American color specialist, who assists companies in their color choice in a range of areas, including packaging, logos, and interior design. She is the executive director of the Pantone Color Institute, a division of Pantone, Inc., and the author of six books on color, one of which won an award from the Independent Publisher's Association.

Background

Eiseman holds a degree in psychology from

Antioch University Antioch University is a private university with multiple campuses in the United States and online programs. Founded in 1852 as Antioch College, its first president was politician, abolitionist, and education reformer Horace Mann. It changed its n ...

, and a counseling certificate from

UCLA The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California. UCLA's academic roots were established in 1881 as a teachers college then known as the southern branch of the California St ...

. She has studied and taught in the fields of fashion and interior design. She is an allied member of the

Industrial Designers Society of America The Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA) is a membership-based not-for-profit organization that promotes the practice and education of industrial design. The organization was formally established in 1965 by the collaborative merger of t ...

and the

Fashion Group International The Fashion Group International (FGI) is a global, non-profit, professional organization founded in 1930 in New York City to benefit the fashion industry. FGI currently has over 5000 members in the fashion industry including apparel, accessories, b ...

, and has received a prestigious service award from the

Color Marketing Group The Color Marketing Group (CMG) is an international association for color design professionals which identifies the direction of color and design trends and translates them into salable colors for manufactured products. Composed of nearly 1,000 m ...

. She also selects the 10 top fashion colors twice yearly for Pantone and ''

Women's Wear Daily ''Women's Wear Daily'' (also known as ''WWD'') is a fashion-industry trade journal often referred to as the "Bible of fashion".Horyn, Cathy"Breaking Fashion News With a Provocative Edge" ''The New York Times''. (August 20, 1999). It provides infor ...

''.Leatrice Eiseman
, More Alive With Color.

Publications

*''Colors for Your Every Mood'' (1998) *''Pantone Guide to Communicating with Color'' (2000) *''The Color Answer Book'' (2003) *''More Alive With Color'' (2006) *''Color: Messages and Meanings'' (2006) *''Pantone: The 20th Century in Color'' (2011) *''Pantone on Fashion: A Century of Color in Design'' (2014) *''The Complete Color Harmony: Pantone Edition'' (2017)

References

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