Covered in Color

The smart folks over at Color Lovers have a nice section over at their site focusing on the color palettes used on current magazine covers.

These simple visual clues of color make a significant impact on folks browsing the magazine rack, illustrating and accentuating the contents of each issue while providing a nice pulse on what's happening in the ever changing world of color trends.

It's a pretty nice reference tool - check it out: Magazine Cover Colors.



And while we're on the subject of nice time saving color reference tools, I'm digging the Color Pallette Generator, Kuler from Adobe and Color Hunter. Both sites enable you to enter the tag, hex code, or image URL of an image to get a color palette that matches the image.

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HMK

Pantone Color Report

Pantone, Inc., the global authority on color and provider of professional color standards for the design industries, unveiled the PANTONE Fashion Color Report Fall 2007, available free-of-charge from Pantone.

The report features the top 10 colors for women's fashion for fall '07 along with designer sketches, quotes and head shots. The availability of the report coincides with the beginning of New York Fashion Week.

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HMK

Wood is Big

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Good To Know:
According to the good folks over at Wired, always a reliable trendspotting source, wood is a recurring design motif at the 2007 CES, present throughout the showrooms in the details and trim, especially in LCD picture frames by Avion, Philips, Kodak and many smaller vendors.

Each resembles a scale model of the giant wood-paneled screens which we think will become ubiquitous in coming years. They displayed a startling traditionalism in their design, with complex Victorian scrollwork sharing shelf space with rustic southern driftwood and European contemporary design.

Read the whole thing: CES: Winners and Losers

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HMK