Smoked-Out is the New Black
Okay, after all this business about there being no new colors, I have found a trend that I love. Kitchen and Bath Business May 2006 www.kbbonline.com (okay, a little behind on the ol’ reading here—definite Periodical Guilt) has an article subtitled “smoked-out, toned down shades show that gray matters.”
These are the colors I have loved and searched for all my life. I’ve simply been unable to use whole brand palettes--Pittsburgh Paints being one of them, until they recently recolored—because the trend was for clear colors or tints (white). The article says it best, “Gray and black influences will impart more earthiness to bright colors, and cues taken from ‘skins’ (from human to nature and culture) will add more realism to color and texture selection.”
Benjamin Moore has always had more of these tones than any other line I’ve worked with, which is probably why they are hands down the favorite of professional designers. “Smoked-out, toned-down palettes,” is what’s in store says Doty Horn, BM’s director of color and design.
Smoked-Out will undoubtedly Trend-Out in a few years, but for now I’ll enjoy the selection and the ride.
If I got really bored I could analyze why these colors appeal to me, and I would come up with a cultural and familial sources: Sweden (one of the many cultures making up this here American Mongrel); the time my mother spent in Japan as a young married woman and the aesthetic taste she developed because of this experience; the San Joaquin valley where I was born and raised with its grayed-golden summertime hills and grey-green vineyards.
So if I was my own client, how the hell would I uncover that in the programming interview?
These are the colors I have loved and searched for all my life. I’ve simply been unable to use whole brand palettes--Pittsburgh Paints being one of them, until they recently recolored—because the trend was for clear colors or tints (white). The article says it best, “Gray and black influences will impart more earthiness to bright colors, and cues taken from ‘skins’ (from human to nature and culture) will add more realism to color and texture selection.”
Benjamin Moore has always had more of these tones than any other line I’ve worked with, which is probably why they are hands down the favorite of professional designers. “Smoked-out, toned-down palettes,” is what’s in store says Doty Horn, BM’s director of color and design.
Smoked-Out will undoubtedly Trend-Out in a few years, but for now I’ll enjoy the selection and the ride.
If I got really bored I could analyze why these colors appeal to me, and I would come up with a cultural and familial sources: Sweden (one of the many cultures making up this here American Mongrel); the time my mother spent in Japan as a young married woman and the aesthetic taste she developed because of this experience; the San Joaquin valley where I was born and raised with its grayed-golden summertime hills and grey-green vineyards.
So if I was my own client, how the hell would I uncover that in the programming interview?
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