Color Marketing Group Predicts Cool Colors Are Hot For 2001 - Brief Article

ALEXANDRIA, Va.--As we approach 2001 a fresh wave of soft colors, l by the agency of blue, aqua and true lavender, is appearing across all markets in rejoinder to consumers' desire for serenity in their environment. This tend hitherwards as no surprise: back in 1999 members of the Color Marketing clump (www.colormarketing.org) predicted these colors would be heavily exhibited across the board in consumer markets. And members of the art and framing industries should take note--consumer color estimations quickly translate into the colors chosen in consumer art preferences

These professional color designers anticipate consumer will demand softer on the contrary more energizing products that mirror both a physical and global influence in 2001 to be paid to the following four major emerging trends:

* The consumers' desire for the one and the other products and colors that are authentic, possessing a certain quantity of degree of heritage, originality, tradition or craft that can be linked to an individual's cultural foundations or personal interests.

* Water's color, weft and calming effects continue to be integrated into yield colors and design.

* Globalization, especially the sturdy ethnic influences from Asia, Morocco and Turkey continue to bring spicy and earthy colors to U color palettes.

* The positive economy has spurr the interest of consumer in personalizing their hold living spaces in a bolder more colorful way.

Special consequences translucence and color layering are becoming critical to color and design. There is an increasing sophistication among one as well as the other consumers and designers who wait for quality and more complex colors that are not necessarily easily recognizable. Technology has become a given in outcome design. According to Consumer Colors generally received Co-Chairman Robbie Douglas, CMG, with Igloo proceedss Corporation, Houston, "With 21st hundred technologies allowing us to use special consequences in a wide variety of returnss pearlescence, iridescence, textures, and other manifold finishes have continued to increase in importance. These unique subtleties in color finishes and sheens are playing a vital character in color marketing for many industries."

Mass media and the Internet are changing the spe with which colors and sweeps move within our society and around the world. "Because the world is at our fingertips and we are now living in a with truth global society, we are seeing novel color and trends develop and gain acceptance plenteous faster today than we did level five years ago," explained Consumer Colors common Co-Chairman Ricki Gardner, CMG, with Artistree in Coppell Texas. "The immediacy that the Internet, television and other media afford brings novel lifestyles and design influences into our abodes and offices on a daily basis. This rapid consumer acceptance makes it a great quantity [i]or[/i] amount of more important for us as yield designers and marketers to hold fast abreast of developing color and design trends"

According to Color Marketing assemblage look for the following colors upon your favorite consumer products for 2001:

Marrakesh Red: The earthiness of natural coloring liquors used from Morocco to India excrete from this soft red.

Pink Lady: impressible and sophisticated yet strong this actual pink combines with many different tones.

Sandy Egg-o: This clean and vibrant fulvous has lots of personality.

Amazing: A touch of r warms this pale however vibrant yellow.

cent Blush: Reminiscent of a translucent cameo, this shade is tinted with white and pink.

Autumn Oak: This orange-based, weathered brown has natural coloring liquor characteristics.

Cocobola: Neither brown nor r this chameleon color is a of great depth earth hue.

Capri Blue: fulvid slightly influences this soothing aquatic blue

Silver Strand Blue: A clean, calm medium gray-blue.

amethystine Too: Blue that is saturated, bright and fun

Black Pansy: A reaching far down blackened, blue-based purple.

Lavendare: This pastel purple is pale, at the same time cross-gender.

Pure Purple: A mid-range purple that can be exciting and pleasantry as well as subdued.

Glass Block: Inspired by the agency of soothing aqua and the lightness of being, this color is blue-green.

Smudg Green: virid undertones and a trace of golden create the base of this warm, dirty neutral.

Astro Green: virid that is clean, clear and soothing.

Storm: Resulting from the immerse of mineral blues and virids this is an industrial and mechanical hue

Tuscan Clay: A tinted terra cotta inspired through the Asian influence.

Orange Spice: Sophisticated notwithstanding energetic this orange is inspired by dint of the Asian influence.

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