President, Color Marketing Group
A respected color authority and forecaster, Jack has been a design director with Landor Associates since 1992. He researches color design trends and develops, directs and facilitates color strategies for many Landor branding projects.
Landor is considered by many to be the leader in global brand and design strategy with more than 60 years of industry experience. Landor balances strategic rigor and world-class creativity to create brand-led business transformation. Landor has more than 22 offices in 17 countries. This global presence has been built over several decades providing local presence and insight.
Jack is the president of The Color Marketing Group, Alexandria, VA. and is a CMG chair holder. He was the chairman of the Consumer Color Directions Committee for 2003 and 2004. In that role, he was responsible for managing CMG’s color forecasting process for the 2005 and 2006 forecasts. He has helped facilitate the last four CMG European color forecasts.
The Color Marketing Group (CMG), founded in 1962 and based in Alexandria, Virginia, USA, is an international, not-for-profit Association of 1,100 Color Designers. Color Designers are professionals who enhance the function, salability and/or quality of a product through their knowledge and appropriate application of color. CMG members forecast Color Directions one to three years in advance for all industries, manufactured products and services. These Consumer/Residential and Contract/Commercial products include: Action/Recreation, Consumer Goods, Technology, Home, Visual Communications, Transportation, Juvenile Products, Fashion, and environments for Office, Health Care, Retail, Hospitality/Entertainment and Institutional/Public Spaces.
Jack was featured in the January 2006 color forecast issues of Communication Arts and Advertising Age magazines. He has appeared in issues of The Financial Times, Event Design magazine, Dynamic Graphics, Investor’s Business Daily, The New Yorker and ID magazine.
Jack often speaks about color strategy and color direction. Jack has studied the emotions of color with Leatrice Eiseman, international color authority and director of the Pantone Institute.
Jack holds an MBA from Xavier University with a specialization in marketing and a BA from Bowling Green State University of Ohio with an art major in design and a minor in business administration.