Lenzig produces color products and has free trend forecasts. People in various industries often pay to subscribe to trend forecasts to help predict trends in style and color when developing products for upcoming seasons. You’ve all gone shopping and seen echoes of the same color palette in a variety of products and stores – they all… Continue reading Lenzig Forecasts for Autumn 2014/Winter 2015
Category: Design
Color Stories
Designers often look at color forecasts, and make up palettes and color stories, built around concepts for the season. The 2013 Pantone Color of the Year, Emerald, is described as “…the color of growth, renewal, and prosperity—no other color conveys regeneration more than green.” Well, that’s an optimistic choice for the new year. Pittsburgh Paints has… Continue reading Color Stories
Color of the Year 2013: Emerald
My sister, Robin Wagner, is a clothing designer specializing in knitwear. She’s alerted me to color forecasting, an important concept in her field, and the industry of color forecasting. Designers may pay to subscribe to a service that determines what the trendy colors for future seasons will be. If you’re of a certain age, you’ll… Continue reading Color of the Year 2013: Emerald
Design Problem-solving
At the recent workshop at Peters Valley Craft Center, there were comments from some participants that they hadn’t often thought about design when it came to putting surface on pots. One of my favorite books for looking and thinking about design changes is architect Brent Brolin’s small book The Designer’s Eye: Problem-Solving in Architectural Design.… Continue reading Design Problem-solving
Working with drop molds with Chris Pickett
The web site is the 21st-century’s business card. UF Ceramics MFA alumnus Chris Pickett has a snappy new web site designed by UF Graphic Design student Marisa Falcigno. Marisa worked as a graphic designer before deciding to return to school for MFA study. She’s been a great consultant and designer for many people affiliated with Ceramics, and… Continue reading Working with drop molds with Chris Pickett
Online color resources
There are sites online where you can give the URL of an image, and it will deconstruct it into a palette. http://www.degraeve.com/color-palette/ This is what it did with my banner image: On Color Hunter it’s similar: put a URL or upload an image, and it gives you the palette and the hexidecimal color numbers for… Continue reading Online color resources
Color research
Color gives emotional tone and interest to our visual world. Color can be indulgent, luscious. Many companies that deal with color do or subscribe to color forecasting and use color stories to shape a concept around a palette. Color services make a business out of selling subscriptions to color forecasting. Lenzing manufactures fibers, and deals with color. The… Continue reading Color research