PER NIMER COLOURS
THE WORLD / WDCD2011

Grey is out. Gloom is gone. It’s time to live our lives in colour.’ That’s the motto for the Let's Colour Project in which Akzo Nobel works together with local communities around the globe. The project has already brought colour to streets, schools, homes and squares in Brazil, France, the UK and India.

As Akzo Nobel's Global Design Manager, Per Nimer knows what a little colour can do. Trained as an interior architect and designer, Nimer has become one of the world's foremost colour trend forecasters. With his team of ten designers he has been working on design concepts, shop concepts, colour cards, collections and marketing concepts for Akzo Nobel's different paint brands.

It is not surprising that Per Nimer knows everything about colour: he has been studying it from his very first years. In his grandfather's paint shop, taken over later by his father, Nimer gathered an intuitive knowledge of colour and paint, painters and paint customer behaviour. After receiving a bachelors degree in interior architecture and graphic design in San Francisco, he worked from his own architectural studio for some years, before becoming design manager at Akzo Nobel. Nimer is the author of Dare to Paint, a colour and design book translated into 12 languages.