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Who or what is Pantone?

Pantone’s Color of the Year is a color trend prediction selected by Pantone, a company that specializes in color systems and technology. Read about Pantone’s Magentaverse in their excellent article, above. The color chosen as the Color of the Year is meant to reflect current cultural and design trends. Now that the year is about one-third over (can you believe it?), what do you think about magenta? Is it still on track to stay popular in 2023?

In garden design, adding a few spots of magenta flowers or plants can add some fun to your yard

Playful magenta

The Pantone Color of the Year for 2023 is Magenta, a vibrant and lively shade of pink. This color is said to reflect a sense of playfulness and optimism, as well as a desire for individuality and self-expression. Magenta is also associated with creativity, energy, and confidence. Personally, whenever I see magenta, I think of big, splashy flowers sorta like the wallpaper my bestie had when I was a kid.

Magenta sparks creativity

Sometimes the color you choose can make all the difference. Magenta is a great color choice for those who want to express their individuality and creativity. It’s a color that can be used to create designs that are both fun and playful, as well as bold and expressive.

Pantone’s color of the year is not just for fashion, graphic design, or interiors but also for industries like automotive, consumer electronics, home appliances, and home furnishings. The color can be used in products, packaging and marketing materials to reflect current cultural and design trends.

Don’t be afraid to use magenta

If you want to get started, you could use small spots or dots of magenta in your design. For example, maybe outline a word or two with magenta. Or use it to dot your i’s! Because it does scream loudly if you use too much of it.

Adding cushions to a couch is a good way to start using the vibrant Magenta

Play with your colors and your branding

Overall, Magenta is a color that symbolizes a sense of optimism, playfulness, and creativity, and it is expected to be a popular color choice in various design fields in 2023. Tell us the ways you might use Magenta! Would you add a cushion to a couch, use a dollop in a printed design, or get all splashy with it? Let us know!

Recently our fearless leader attended NeoCon 2019. Neocon is a leading gathering place for innovations among the commercial design world’s manufacturers dealers, architects, and designers. Located at The Mart in Chicago, NeoCon has been making news in the design world since 1969. Here are a few images from that recent trip.

Designtex Bauhaus Women Weavers

Designtex, a distributor of Interior Design Materials, themed their entire exhibit honoring Women Weavers in time with the celebration of Women in Construction everywhere! As you might know, Window Works is super-excited about Women in Construction, as evidenced by our Women in Construction event earlier this year.

Floors like Water

Floors, Wall, Ceilings, Windows; there are no surfaces that aren’t being beautified! Now we can have carpet that appears ethereal in design! 20 years ago, this was simply impossible! We suspect that the man with the cast on his leg, above, may have slipped on that seemingly wet surface!

Pantone Color of the Year Homage to Coral

Pantone Color of the Year 2019

Tribute to Living Coral, the Main Foyer of NeoCon where the Design cues to the following season are gleaned. We wrote about the Pantone Color of the Year in a previous post: Fun with Living Coral, Pantone’s Color of the Year 2019.

Skyline Custom Glass

Skyline, well known for their high design laminated glass, pointing to the new direction for glass aesthetics; clean, simple, light geometry.

Textured Walls Fur and Hide

At NeoCon, anything can be a design surface–including fur and hide walls from Green Hides! Imagine the green cowhide on a foyer focus wall!

Walls Like Floors

Now the Walls look the Floors or are we askew?! Take the wood floor appeal up the wall!

Window Film Jewel Tones

Jewel tones used on curtain wall (or banks of glass) in either rich, saturated imperial colors or energetic acid tones, giving energy to glass!

Window Film Transparent Neon Tones

Window Film Transparent Neon Tones – Minimal but highly energized, go Neon or go Home – Monotone to the Max.

Window Film Okamura

Japanese aesthetic is in the DNA: simple, clean, focused, calming–and all from window film!

Window Film Less is More Asymmetrical

The look of less, using asymmetrical designs to impart minimalist tones to the display and making vision lites work in Retail.

Window Film Lines of Subtlety

Subtle is the new black; window film is still hot, but now we are hanging a wider breadth of design such as these barely there thin lines imparting a sense of organic motion to the display.

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