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		<title>Pantone 2011 Colour of the Year</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Dec 2010 17:49:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicole Phillips</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pantone annouced the colour of the year this morning. With much anticipation, every designer was trying to guess what it would be, on facebook and twitter. While I wasn&#8217;t too surprised with the choice, I was thinking it would be more of a rich red instead of being on the pink side of things. For [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Pantone annouced the colour of the year this morning. With much anticipation, every designer was trying to guess what it would be, on facebook and twitter. While I wasn&#8217;t too surprised with the choice, I was thinking it would be more of a rich red instead of being on the pink side of things. For now I honestly can&#8217;t stand the colour, but maybe it&#8217;ll start to grow on me as the year moves along.</p>
<p>What do you think of it? <a href="http://www.pantone.com/pages/pantone/Pantone.aspx?pg=20821&amp;ca=4" target="_blank">Read more&gt;&gt;</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.pantone.com/pages/pantone/Pantone.aspx?pg=20821&amp;ca=4" target="_blank"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1497" title="pantone_2011_trend" src="http://www.cowieandfox.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/pantone_2011_trend.jpg" alt="pantone_2011_trend" width="450" height="800" /></a></p>
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		<title>2010 Colour Forecast</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 22:08:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicole Phillips</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week I went to a designer colour premiere show. They discussed trends for 2010.
They went through everything from, interior design to fashion to cars and more, but to be honest it wasn&#8217;t that impressive, and to me colour
forecasting is different everywhere so don&#8217;t take this like it&#8217;s written in stone of course!!
 Here&#8217;s some [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Last week I went to a designer colour premiere show. They discussed trends for 2010.</p>
<p>They went through everything from, interior design to fashion to cars and more, but to be honest it wasn&#8217;t that impressive, and to me colour<br />
forecasting is different everywhere so don&#8217;t take this like it&#8217;s written in stone of course!!</p>
<ul><strong> Here&#8217;s some rough notes from the show:</strong></ul>
<p><strong>Crafty/Organic:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Handmade</li>
<li>hand works</li>
<li>hand knitted</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Luxury is key:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>GOLD GOLD GOLD (probably due to the recession, bling is now going to be in, to prove that you&#8217;d still got &#8220;it&#8221; ? who knows)</li>
<li>liquid metallics, high gloss materials</li>
<li><a title="Board Bar" href="http://www.boardbar.de" target="_blank">http://www.boardbar.de</a> shows custom flight bars for your customized jet.</li>
<li>silk embroidery</li>
<li><a title="Luxury Eco Stamp" href="http://www.luxuryecostampofapproval.com" target="_blank">http://www.luxuryecostampofapproval.com</a></li>
<li>The use of bold colours in alternative combinations. Colours you wouldn&#8217;t think go together are now paired.</li>
<li>Grey and muted tones off set with bright bold colours ex: bright pink with a silver metallic grey</li>
<li>airbrushed shading (sort of looked like gradients of monochrome colour)</li>
<li>Optical black and white patterns</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Eco Chic is very in still:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>naturals, BEIGE!!</li>
<li>cardboard, felt, plywood, raw materials etc&#8230;</li>
<li>think of your natural earth surroundings and translate that into design</li>
<li>Handmade from recycled/found objects</li>
<li>monochrome colour schemes</li>
<li>bronze, gold, yellow</li>
<li>citron, orange, copper, pumpkin</li>
<li>plum, purple, grape combine with greys, mauves</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>True greens:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>citrus</li>
<li>grass</li>
<li>acidic</li>
<li>menthol</li>
<li>lime green mixed with avocado green</li>
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<p>Not related to what we do really, but they showed that the modern kitchen will look like something from the 70s&#8230;frilly curtains, old style cabinets, avocado green&#8230;it was so horrible people were walking out of the presentation. I don&#8217;t believe that trend will last very long&#8230;I understand that retro is cool and all, but that&#8217;s just wrong.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s about all i grabbed from them. I think our generation is more up to date with what&#8217;s going on, but it&#8217;s all really trivial in the end.</p>
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