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What are you seeing in your market? What's hot? What's overworked and ready to die? What palettes would you push if you were in charge?
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What are you seeing in your market? What's hot? What's overworked and ready to die? What palettes would you push if you were in charge?
Mara
Great minds...
Weird... As of late, I've been playing a bit with color schemes. Seems to interest me (playing with color) for some reason.
Anyway, I'm currently working on a 6 month project preparing all the materials for an upcoming conference. Mailers, web promotion, schwag... that sort of thing.
The color scheme (oddly enough) is hot pink, burgundy and grey.
Specific Pantones available on request. :)
Terry Thornhill
e-zign Design Group
Hot pink? No kidding? Weird.
Hot pink? No kidding? Weird. I have a corporate client (they're in the finance biz) who've been asking if the logo I'm designing for them cold involve pink. Hmmm...
Mara
Yup. Hot pink is HUGE right now!
I have had a lot of requests to throw hot pink in the design. Weird, but true.
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"The name's Bond, James Bond."
www.onegirlcreative.com
Yep, hot pink, burgundy,
Yep, hot pink, burgundy, puke green is what our marketing people keep telling me. I don't have the URL they gave me on hand right now.
i've always found it
i've always found it interesting to look at pantone's color forecast PDFs.
http://www.pantone.com/pages/pantone/Pantone.aspx?pg=20557&ca=4
bottom of the left hand nav has links to other seasons.
Kuler...
This may seem obvious, but have you all seen kuler.adobe.com? it's a pretty neat site. I use it to create color palettes and show them to clients. You can log on and save and change palettes, and they have a neat color tool that works well for trying to pry color preferences out of people who don't know what they want!
Oh, way cool...
Thanks for bringing that to our attention. I will definitely utilize this website.
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"The name's Bond, James Bond."
www.onegirlcreative.com
another site that you can
another site that you can look at color palettes on is www.colourlovers.com. you can export the color palettes as ASE files and import them into adobe programs.
another fun option (if you've got the money to buy it) is colormunki. i've been so/so on how well it's color managed, although i think some of that is me doing a better job of keeping up with it, but the color palette program that comes with it is very nice. even lets you import (drag and drop, even) photos and it will give you color palette options from photos.
recently i have been seeing
A rise in orange. It was super popular late 90s then it got played out. Now its coming back!
And purple and New York grays!
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GREAT POST, MARA.
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"The name's Bond, James Bond."
www.onegirlcreative.com
Thanks, Suz! Great tips
Thanks, Suz! Great tips here, huh? I plan to check them out over the weekend.
Mara
DEFINITELY!!!
I will most likely be doing the exact same thing. Have a few projects I'm working on, so it could be useful advice.
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"The name's Bond, James Bond."
www.onegirlcreative.com
Agree. So weird about the
Agree. So weird about the timing with this thread. Have been toying around with setting up a two colour well to draw on based upon the combination preferences of others here.
I recently did up two pieces that are receiving favourable comments.
One was a three colour palette: 123 yellow; 3005 blue; and 419 Grey.
The other, a two colour palette: 476 brown and 314 blue.
Also, regarding trends, a VERY senior designer once told me to refer to home decorating magazines as interior design generally dictates print/design palettes for the following year. Bearing that in mind, I often refer to these mags and utilize a lot of their palettes NOW to try and help my clients keep ahead of the flow.
"Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible."
— Frank Zappa
what perfect timing...
I've been trying to come up with a spot-on color scheme for a project all week, and suddenly this thread pops up. Thanks for the web sites and ideas!