HI HUES AGENCY

INSIGHT & VISION SERVICES
- Trend Presentations
- Color Inspiration & Palette Forecasting
- Culture Insights & Reporting
- Internal Corporate Presentations
- Freelance Writing
- Speaking Engagements, Trade Show Presentations, & Conference Speaker (including MAGIC, Premiere Vision, & Printsource)
- Leverage Generative AI for Inspiration & Forecasting
DIGITAL SERVICES
- Brand
- Collateral Kits for Across Platforms ( brand & content )
- Social Media Management
- Website Design
- Marketing Strategies
- Social Community Engagement
- Influencer Relations
- Digital Advertising
- Traditional Ad and Affiliate Content
- B2B and B2C Digital Marketing
PRODUCT SERVICES
- Color Specialist
- Trend & Forecasting
- Print Design
- Materials
- Product Design ( footwear, accessories, transportation, interiors, & environments )
- Product Development, Line Building, & Merchandising
- Product Process Consulting and Implementation Strategy
CLIENTS INCLUDE
- Color Atlas by Archroma
- KEEN
- Sebago
- BRUNT Workwear
- Luen Thai
  - Urban Outfitters
  - Lands’ End
  - Forever 21
  - NY & Co.
  - Victoria's Secret PINK
- FolkArt Paint ( Plaid )
- Jessica Simpson Girls’ ( Stride Rite )
- Acorn
- Isotoner
- Kinetix
- akesso
- Volvo Truck
- Mack Truck
- Polaris
- Ostermoor
- moKee
- Titleist
- … & more

ABOUT

Having worked in-house at Ford, Reebok, and Timberland … Jessica “went on her own,” founding her original consultancy ( Seed ) in 2009. Through working with clients across industries, she has been fortunate to contribute in various capacities from concept and design, to strategy and implementation.
HI HUES was founded in 2020 as a new agency for a new era.
A business minded Creative, Jessica excels at cross-functional collaboration, with a proven track record in growing brand presence, designing relevant product, and creating viral content.
Having been invited to speak at conferences including MAGIC and Printsource, she has also provided trend and culture reports at global shows such as Premiere Vision.
Just as Design Seeds was a digital interpretation of Jessica’s original physical journals … she is continuing to move color forward by utilizing emerging technologies, tuning color harmonies through digital editing, and providing new processes for creating modern hues.

A woman with red hair tied in a bun sitting on a white counter in a room with white walls, decorated with abstract art, a red chair, and a potted white orchid.

Jessica is most widely known for creating the original color inspiration site … Design Seeds.
Launched in May of 2009, the site “for all who love color” quickly grew to viral levels of popularity. While averaging 2 million pageviews a month for a decade, Jessica gained over 1.5 million followers across social.
Design Seeds has been featured in prominent publications including; USA Today, MTV Fora, HGTV, Apartment Therapy, Better Homes & Gardens magazine, Smashing Magazine, and The Huffington Post. Jessica has been included as Mashable's #3 of the 21 leading online influencers in their "must-follow Pinterest users" list, as well as Refinery29's top 10 Pinterest influencers.

A dog with light brown fur looking at colorful sheets of paper on a surface, with a person's hand pointing at one of the papers.

Launched in January of 2020, HI HUES was a reimagined color inspiration site & blog focusing on modern color for a new era.
Abruptly interrupted by Covid, the HI HUES archives are a time capsule of pre-pandemic optimism, bursting with human made inspiration, photography, and color.
Although new online digital content had been stopped by abrupt circumstance, HI HUES lived on in various mediums and articulations … including a brand & client direct color service.
modern color + analogue happy = HI HUES

PORTFOLIO

VISIT

WRITING SAMPLES

Be the Umbrella

Originally published on the A Woman Your Age blog.

“Be the Umbrella” … a metaphor I first heard early in my career, and has had resonance throughout my life…

Sandswept

An excerpt from the EMERGING INDEX volume ii.

Unmistakably human craft untethered from the expected, SANDSWEPT excavates modernity from the sands of the past.

Decentre

An excerpt from the EMERGING INDEX volume iii.

Empowering, androgynous, gender-bending, and not kneeling to the dictates of the runways or objectification of the male gaze … Diane Keaton’s style is pure self-expression. A brilliant blending of couture with thrift, as well as mens’ with womenswear.

Color Anthropology

An excerpt from the EMERGING INDEX volume i.

In times of dramatic change, or polarizing ideologies, it is intuitive to ground emerging trends with aesthetic cues grounded in antiquity or with enduring affinity. However, it is critical to leverage these cues with innovation and generational relevance.

Failing Up

Originally published on the Fresh Hues blog.

Graduating with an excellent skillset and a thick-ish skin (totally against my nature as a precariously sensitive soul), I also learned in college to hide all my mistakes. All-nighters were a staple of my week…