02/16/2011
DayGlo Calls for Reinvention of Color
Addresses color preferences and trends at the Package Design & Development Summit… Read More
It began back in the 1930s, when Bob and Joe Switzer - two sons of a California pharmacist - started to experiment with ways to produce colors far brighter than normal and that had the unique effect of "glowing" under ultraviolet or black light.
Initially, these new colors and effects found their way into magic shows, stage shows, and movie promotion posters. But by 1940, the brothers were busy working on a totally new batch of colors - ones that glowed brightly in daylight too!
World War II provided lots of uses for the new colors. Fluorescent fabric panels based on technology developed by DayGlo were used to send signals from the ground that could be seen by an airplane thousands of feet in the air.
Buoys painted with fluorescent paints from DayGlo marked areas in the water that had been cleared of floating explosives and mines.
Aircraft carrier crews clad in fluorescent suits lit by ultraviolet lamps guided places to nighttime landings.
As the chemistry and manufacturing process improved, the areas of application expanded. Advertising, safety and promotional firms began to recognize the uniqueness of these bright colors and specified their use.
Trademarked as DayGlo in reference to their daylight fluorescent properties, the name DayGlo caught on and, in the late 1960s, the company formally changed its name from Switzer Bros., to DayGlo Color Corp.
Today, DayGlo serves the world's color marketplace with quality, innovative fluorescent pigments, toners, bases, inks and dyes, color dispersions and specialty effects pigments.
Addresses color preferences and trends at the Package Design & Development Summit 2011
Cleveland, OH (February 14, 2011) – DayGlo Color Corp., a global leader in the color industry, will be examining packaging and consumer developments in the 21st century from the unique perspective of color at the Package Design & Development Summit 2011 (March 1-3; St Petersburg, FL).
If the 20th century was about following color trends, then the 21st is all about using color to express our individuality. In this era of personalization, consumers increasingly seek niche color palettes over traditional ranges in their lives and, therefore, in the products they buy.
In this lively session, Dr. Wayne Likavec, Product Development and Quality Control Manager at DayGlo, will challenge the audience to look beyond accepted tenets of color in packaging and propose a new direction, examining the industry from the perspectives of: colors themselves, color effects, and the applications of color in consumer and commercial packaging.
“New categories of influencers are broadening our color choices,” Likavec notes. “From private label to sustainability and the globalization of style, packaging developers, designers, and brands alike need to understand that color can play a different – and increasingly important – role in drawing consumers. Packaging, it seems, has become fashion.”
The Package Design & Development Summit brings together package design and development professionals seeking the latest trends, tools and technologies to create competitive packaging that drives growth. The Summit focuses on the key challenges facing designers and developers and provides real-world solutions. Attendees include:
• Package designers, package developers, creative directors, packaging managers, packaging engineers, operations managers, marketing managers and R&D managers from CPG and converter companies.
• Consumer packaging consultants, package design and development firms, packaging industry service and solution providers, packaging consultants and market researchers
DayGlo recently announced its new positioning, “Color. Only Better.”, aimed to communicate the company’s expertise in improving, enhancing, and making color better. In addition, the company launched a new website featuring the Design Center, a new interactive tool for the industry, where visitors can see firsthand how to make color better using DayGlo products on a 3D object.
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About DayGlo
Cleveland-based DayGlo Color Corp., a wholly owned subsidiary of RPM, Inc., is a global leader in the color industry, offering a diverse product line and customized color solutions for packaging and consumer goods, plastics, graphic arts, paints and coatings, dyes and textiles, as well as ingredients for the personal care and cosmetics industries. As the originator, and world’s largest manufacturer, of daylight fluorescent color, DayGlo also develops conventional color dispersions and specialty effect pigments. DayGlo’s diverse range of products can be used alone or combined with conventional colors help achieve cleaner, brighter, more sophisticated colors. With DayGlo it’s “Color. Only Better.”
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