Cologne, January, 14-20, 2013
Four trends and 32 trend colours define industrial design and architecture
The future looks rosy – bubblegum pink, to be precise. RAL presents this trend colour and 31 others in its new ‘Colour Feeling 2012+’ colour trend book. This ‘creative tool’ for working with colour trends provides an orientation to future trend colours and their applications. more…
Should I paint the facade a nice lemon colour – or maybe a sunny yellow after all? And how about a subtle shade of beige for the living room and a light-blue bathroom? If you’re planning to redesign your walls, you actually want to know what the result will look like beforehand. With the RAL iColours App for iPhones and iPads, you can. Whether you’re at home or out and about, you can recolour your photos in any RAL shade you like in the blink of an eye.
Global Color Research is a creative colour consultancy recognised internationally for its accurate trend forecasting. Since 1999, Global Color Research has achieved an excellent market position, proving its ability to create reliable colour choices for future trends.
NCS Colour AB is the Swedish-based company at the forefront of modern colour research with a global base of clients, outlets and services. The company drives a range of services and solutions based around its NCS – Natural Colour System, the world’s most widely used colour system. With no restrictions in terms of language or usage, NCS is the only colour system which can truly be considered an international, cross-industry, universal colour language.
There’s more to colours than just red, green and blue. The human eye, for instance, can distinguish between approximately 10 million different hues. It would certainly be impossible to give them all a name: we have enough problems making ourselves understood when it comes to simple shades. At the end of the day, everybody defines descriptions such as light yellow or bright orange in a slightly different way.
