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Colour planning tool for 2024/25 with complete palettes, colour flows, seasonal continuity colours, colour evolution and colour references.

An in-depth exploration of regional colour preferences with analysis and palettes for eight global regions. 2024/25 Design Directions GRAIN, MINE, PLAIN & PLANT.

Here we set out to discover if online colour palette generators are useful tools for colour professionals or simply a shortcut for Instagram content creators.

Recently, there’s been a definite move to the dark side, as a distinctly Gothic mood descends like a dense, bat-filled mist.

Nothing says glamour with a touch of drama like an animal print. From Hollywood to the high street, this is why leopard, tiger and zebra prints remain enduring favourites everywhere. Now these prints are infusing interiors with their big statement style.

As our world becomes increasingly digitised and complex, architects, interior designers and artisans are retreating from this overload, adopting a stone-age simplicity by turning their attention to the ultimate analogue material, stone.

As non-renewable resources become ever more depleted, the irrevocable, environmental and ethical damage synthetic dyes are causing is leading designers to rethink the future of dyeing by recalibrating their relationship with nature.

Design Directions 2024/25 Part Two: PLAIN & PLANT | Colour Now: 2023/24 HEARTBREAKER & FIND | Focus on Spring Shows.

Continuing our series focusing on creatives with a special interest in colour, we speak to Ruben de la Rive Box and Golnar Roshan of Amsterdam- based design studio Rive Roshan about the importance of experimentation and imagination.