Colour trends

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Colour HiveLittle Greene | New colours and Colour of the Year 2027 Little Greene introduces 26 new shades across its updated colour collections and names Marle, a warm and characterful mid-tone brown, its Colour of the Year for 2027.

10.10

Colour HivePPG | Colour of the Year 2027 | Country Soil PPG has selected Country Soil (PPG15-30) as its Colour of the Year for 2027. Blending beige, taupe and grey with warm, earthy undertones, the colour draws inspiration from clay-rich earth and…

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Graphic Design USADive Into Pantone’s Newest Wave of Captivating Colors Pantone’s newest wave of colors is here, and the captivating shades burst with nostalgia, joy, and just doing the most.

09.27

Colour HiveDulux Colour of the Year 2027: Soulful Sage Dulux names Soulful Sage as its Colour of the Year 2027, placing the soft, greyed-off green at the centre of a wider Live Lightly forecast focused on creating lighter, calmer spaces in response to a…

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Colour HiveMylands Colour of the Year 2027 | Huguenot™ No.49 Mylands names Huguenot™ No.49 its Colour of the Year for 2027, reflecting a wider move towards rich, warm reds also observed across Colour Hive's 2027 and 2027/28 forecasts.

09.04

Coco Lapine DesignDifferent muted paint colors elevate the look of a cozy Swedish flat Earthy tones and considered layering give this home (via Bjurfors ) a grounded, lived-in warmth that feels genuinely inviting.

08.28

発見, hakken: a finding. This is a record of what one designer notices in a week.

I grew up beside the Arakawa, in Adachi, and spent five years in a Ginza studio drawing identities for companies you have used without once thinking about them. That work teaches you to read a city as a page. A vending machine is set type. A rice bag is a packaging problem somebody solved in the eighties and nobody has improved on since. A good deal of the best design in Japan is like that: already in the street, unsigned, waiting to be looked at properly.

So this magazine watches the street as well as the feed. Around fifty sources come in through the day, ten of them Japanese, and what the world's studios are arguing about is counted and plotted so you can watch it move. Every third day I write about one thing I actually stood in front of.

What you get for a story is a headline, a short excerpt, one picture and the way out to the people who reported it. Never the article itself, and never the photograph as though it were ours. A story written in Japanese stays in Japanese here, headline and excerpt both, because that is how its author set it down.

Everything is also published in Japanese at hakkenmag.com/ja/.

— Ren Arakawa, Tokyo