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karen joins the huffington post blogger team

I can’t tell you how thrilled I was to be accepted as a Huffington Post contributor this month. I pitched my idea – writing articles on the subject of applied colour psychology in relation to business branding, marketing, products and business interiors. They said they didn’t have one of those – yes we are a rare…

colourmatch personality test colour campaign with karen haller

ColourMatch from argos personality test to add personality and colour to your home

On Friday the findings of the nationwide survey carried out by ColourMatch from Argos and myself on what people really think about their homes were revealed. Following on from that I worked closely with the team at ColourMatch to create a fun way to find the colours that match your personality for you to use in your home.

colourmatch from argos colour campaign with karen haller.

uk homes ‘unadventurous’ as 75% admit to obsessing over impressing their neighbours

I’ve been working closely with the team at ColourMatch to analyse the results from a nationwide survey on what people really think about their homes. The study was released today and shows that three quarters of people admit their home ‘lacks personality’ and, when it comes to our homes, we are a nation obsessed with…

fiat you wear facebook app developed with karen haller

Fiat Launches ‘You Wear’ – A World-First Facebook Fashion App That Reveals What Colour You Wear Most Often

There is a famous quote from Henry Ford “Any customer can have a car painted any colour that he wants so long as it is black.” Well FIAT are changing all that. I’ve been working with FIAT on a fun Facebook App and now I can finally share it with you. It’s a fun and playful…

colour makes people happy blog splatter painting karen pouring paint.

colour makes people happy and it would seem a bit dizzy too

Back in February on my first visit to the Colour Makes People Happy store and meeting the very happy Simon March, I knew I’d be back. So what better reason than to treat my good friend Janet (and colour lover) for her birthday, to a mini splatter painting party. No matter what the age, I…

metro infographic karen haller colour facts blog post

metro news… what’s your favourite colour

Being interviewed by the Metro’s reporter Ross McGuinness for yesterday’s Metro In Focus feature was great fun. I knew by the diverse colour questions the article was going to be full of fun and interesting colour facts.

clerkenwell design week… come and hear me speak how you can use colour psychology in the workplace

The highly anticipated Clerkenwell Design Week starts next week. And I’m very excited to be asked by Humanscale to give two talks at their Clerkenwell showroom.

thomas pink jermyn street store, london.

Thomas Pink… Personally Pink campaign

On Saturday I had the absolute pleasure of working with Thomas Pink, the exclusive men’s tailors, as their colour psychology expert as part of their ‘Personally Pink’ campaign.

bbc radio wales colour interview with jason mohammad.

bbc radio wales interview…wearing yellow gets you noticed Pippa Middleton style

The thing I love about radio, they are really tuned into the news of the day, as it’s happening. As a colour expert, I never know when I’m going to be called to comment on the colour stories of the day. So it was no different last Friday morning when I received a call from…

Does colour change the way we feel and behave? What Radio 4 DIDN’T tell you

Back in November I was interviewed by BBC Radio 4 as part of their week long Technicolour programme which was aired last week. Each day there were three colour experts speaking about their area of colour expertise from how our bodies create colour, colour language and perception, our reaction to colour, how colour is made…