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.
Designers Nipa Doshi and Jonathan Levien are designing the premiere of the imm cologne’s new series “Das Haus – Interiors on Stage”, the sponsors of which include colour specialists RAL. During the presentation of the concept and the initial designs for their installation at the London press conference on 22.09., the Anglo-Indian designer couple emphasised the important role played by the sensuous materiality and colourfulness of their wall elements. RAL’s new plastic sample chips proved ideal for creating interesting effects that reflect the couple’s ideas about transparency and colour.
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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.
The fact that colours convey emotional messages and embody certain characteristics is nothing new. Green symbolises hope, for instance, yellow stands for envy, and love is red. But what about colours in relation to adjectives, with regard to words that are normally used to attribute things with a certain characteristic? more…
