Issue 34 | Alchemy
“Poetry is the alchemy which teaches us to convert ordinary materials into gold.” Anais Nin
ALCHEMY is a book filled with beautiful, transformative colours - bought to life through vibrant visual storytelling. The stories in this book are rooted in the past, yet they are not nostalgic. The future of design is not fast paced it is ceremonial; we desire a human-touch, emotional connection, analogue experience and sensorial pleasures. From everyday rituals to a revival in folklore – these themes weave meaning into the ways that we think and feel about colour.
Key colour insight for Autumn Winter 2027-28 - carefully curated themes and hand dyed colour swatches.
- Imaginarium
- Abundant
- Precious
- Playful
- Folklore
- Ritual
Luminary is a bi-annual seasonal colour creation tool, including everything you need to get colour right, first time.
- Six directional colour stories for the global design industries
- The Key Colours linked to global shifts in design + sustainability
- High-impact visual storytelling + in-house photography
- Physical and digital colour tools for seamless integration into brand and product workflows, colours as Adobe, CMYK, RGB, and Pantone references
- 60 large textile swatches + colour combinations in print, and digital
- Natural dye colour swatches - botanical pigments extracted from flowers
- 100+ Page printed publication + 60 Paper colour swatches
- 60 cotton colour swatches + Botanical dye silks
- Digital Library + Digital Colours + Adobe Palettes
- Workshop – a guided presentation with Anna Starmer – call your Luminary agent to arrange
