Tonight I am getting ready for my next trip –
the Color Marketing Group's International Conference in Palm Springs,
California.
This is a working conference where design professionals gather to develop color
palettes to serve as trend forecasting tools for their respective
industries. I'll be a facilitator for one of the workshops, as a CMG
chairholder. It is a crazy intense weekend with fellow color addicts!
As always, my thoughts are focused on the intersection of what I have recently
experienced, and how that might apply to upcoming trends.
Because so many of you are huge
fans of Kaffe Fassett and his collective of designers, I thought you'd get
a kick out of this quilt by Cynthia Henneke. This is a detail shot of her
armadillo quilt, which was hanging in the quilt exhibit at the Houston Quilt
Festival.
It is a collage of Kaffe
Fassett Collective prints, and the color palette is pretty wild! I have
pulled out a palette of color swatches along the bottom, and I find it pretty
amazing that she used a Southwestern
theme (armadillo) and the colors are so decisively spicy and Latin.
Whether you are working in patchwork or applique,
strip piecing or collage, home dec or fashion, the same color principles are at
work. In this case, I can imagine that Cynthia played around with lots of
fabric combinations before settling on this eye-popping design.
Starting this week, we are going take you on a Color Journey that will wind across a rainbow of hues, exploring the poetry that lies between dark and light, and playing with color
combinations from mystical to modern.
Every week I'll give you a new color palette with which to play, along with my
usual visual creative inspiration.
