Spring/Summer Color Trends For 2012
Jan 9, 2012 16:25:46 GMT -5
Post by PrisonerOfHope on Jan 9, 2012 16:25:46 GMT -5
Hot off the press, I just got PANTONE’s spring / summer 2012 new Color Trends Forecast! These are the colors that will be popular in clothing and home decor.
There’s a strong influence between fashion trends, that tends to cross over into home décor in both color and textural influences. So here’s a first peek at the Color Trends Forecast for 2012 so you can compare and contrast its influence on Home and Housewares Color Trends (featured on the image at the top of this article). Fashion influence is a great inspirational cross-over for choosing wall color and inventing your color story, because clothing is scalable and easier to see in your mind’s eye.
Pantone’s theme is Bridges, which has everything to do with what is going on in Interior Design. The trend is really about metallics, transparency, and optical textures in fabrics shown side-by-side with very modern matte finishes with engineered curved lines – Modern meets updated flea market, or rather – transitional. Retro is heavily emphasized as well. This transitional marriage falls just short of expressing itself as “shabby chic”, which was characterized by crumpled texture and rather dumpy, non-delineated lines. The new trend is toward a much more sophisticated relationship between worn and friendly, and futuristic fantasy. It sounds easy to fall off the bridge, but don’t be intimidated – there’s no troll under the bridge!
Metallics – not only the staple gold, silver, and bronze shimmer, but bright colors, too. Metallics emphasize luxury, and as always optimize a hint of glamour to relieve the mundane. Metallics are shown in combination with textures that are shaded and washed out.
Black takes a bit of a back seat, but ultra-matt or sheens – “modern, sexy, sophisticated…” will still punctuate collections in home.
Blues, nautical – and yes – TURQUOISE – bring a ‘”joyful, clear, and clean” look to summer palettes.
Red, albeit less visible survives in chili-pepper red, and red / brown incarnations.
Candy pinks (yes, PANTONE Honeysuckle) continue as “imperative”.
Greens, emerge, symbolic healing renewal (and planet-friendly) – more limes than grassy greens.
Browns – chocolate becomes more important – “steady, chic, subtle, understated”
Yellow – yellow chrome – a lot of emphasis on “buff yellow” – Warm summer taupes stand out as “upscale, eternal, and understated”. Yellow is characterized as “optimistic and original”.
Yellow, Gold Grey – were emphasized. This has always been one of my favorite palettes – ominous storm clouds retreating after a strong thunderstorm; with late afternoon sun breaking against yellow fall foliated trees is a sight that is one of life’s everyday miracles!
Crumpled; not perfect finishes – More bright and jarring – orange all over the map!
redoitdesign.wordpress.com/2011/03/15/new-pantone-spring-summer-2012-color-trends/
I always enjoy seeing what new colors are popular each season and updating my wardrobe - I love pretty clothes! ;D Can you imagine what it will be like in the Kingdom? We'll think we have our wardrobes "just so" and are set for a while, then God will gleefully announce, "Attention everybody - I just created a new color! How do you like it?" Oh, we're gonna have such fun!
;D
There’s a strong influence between fashion trends, that tends to cross over into home décor in both color and textural influences. So here’s a first peek at the Color Trends Forecast for 2012 so you can compare and contrast its influence on Home and Housewares Color Trends (featured on the image at the top of this article). Fashion influence is a great inspirational cross-over for choosing wall color and inventing your color story, because clothing is scalable and easier to see in your mind’s eye.
Pantone’s theme is Bridges, which has everything to do with what is going on in Interior Design. The trend is really about metallics, transparency, and optical textures in fabrics shown side-by-side with very modern matte finishes with engineered curved lines – Modern meets updated flea market, or rather – transitional. Retro is heavily emphasized as well. This transitional marriage falls just short of expressing itself as “shabby chic”, which was characterized by crumpled texture and rather dumpy, non-delineated lines. The new trend is toward a much more sophisticated relationship between worn and friendly, and futuristic fantasy. It sounds easy to fall off the bridge, but don’t be intimidated – there’s no troll under the bridge!
Metallics – not only the staple gold, silver, and bronze shimmer, but bright colors, too. Metallics emphasize luxury, and as always optimize a hint of glamour to relieve the mundane. Metallics are shown in combination with textures that are shaded and washed out.
Black takes a bit of a back seat, but ultra-matt or sheens – “modern, sexy, sophisticated…” will still punctuate collections in home.
Blues, nautical – and yes – TURQUOISE – bring a ‘”joyful, clear, and clean” look to summer palettes.
Red, albeit less visible survives in chili-pepper red, and red / brown incarnations.
Candy pinks (yes, PANTONE Honeysuckle) continue as “imperative”.
Greens, emerge, symbolic healing renewal (and planet-friendly) – more limes than grassy greens.
Browns – chocolate becomes more important – “steady, chic, subtle, understated”
Yellow – yellow chrome – a lot of emphasis on “buff yellow” – Warm summer taupes stand out as “upscale, eternal, and understated”. Yellow is characterized as “optimistic and original”.
Yellow, Gold Grey – were emphasized. This has always been one of my favorite palettes – ominous storm clouds retreating after a strong thunderstorm; with late afternoon sun breaking against yellow fall foliated trees is a sight that is one of life’s everyday miracles!
Crumpled; not perfect finishes – More bright and jarring – orange all over the map!
redoitdesign.wordpress.com/2011/03/15/new-pantone-spring-summer-2012-color-trends/
I always enjoy seeing what new colors are popular each season and updating my wardrobe - I love pretty clothes! ;D Can you imagine what it will be like in the Kingdom? We'll think we have our wardrobes "just so" and are set for a while, then God will gleefully announce, "Attention everybody - I just created a new color! How do you like it?" Oh, we're gonna have such fun!
;D