We turn leading-edge insight into the tools the industry needs, each book contains the Macro seasonal overview, six directional themes and sixty colour swatches viewed as hand dyed textile swatches, printed palettes and Adobe ready digital colours.
“Huetopia is your own inner universe of colour, it is the quality, nuance and reality of colour that makes you the happiest in this moment, here and now.” Anna Starmer
What is good colour today? Is it colour extracted from plants, roots and fungi; or bio-colour, lab-grown colour or colours derived from mould, algae and bacteria? Art and invention are forever optimistic, and we look to the future and seek out colour-filled and hopeful dreams of Huetopia at every turn.
Euphoria
Shadow Play
Hot House
Huetopia
Stillness
Night Garden
In Issue 31 we are seeking ‘Huetopia’. It is time to step outside the comfort of our homes and into the beautiful expanses of our chaotic world and ask, ‘what makes us truly happy?’
From soft, calm colours of stillness and quietude to playful brights that trigger a nostalgic childlike response – we are emotionally connected to colour. Both exterior and interior elements effect how we perceive colour, surface, texture, light, shadow, weather, mood, environment, social conditioning, culture and advertising all influence our choices.
We are not living in technicolour times these are dark uncertain times. Look around and you will see the ‘safe’ and steady options of neutral colours for home interiors to grey and monochrome clothing; we seek out calm soothing colours to counteract the ‘visual noise’ of modern living. In this era of anxiety, can we use colour to uplift and connect, to create brilliant chromatic visual delights and collectively raise the vibration of humanity?
Luminary is a colour research studio, and we are fascinated by how colour is used and in turn what impact our colour choices have on our lifestyle and wellbeing as humans living today. How can we live and design in this ever-changing era?
Golden hues and sunkissed positive colours are light-filled, radiant and blissful. Hedgerow flowers and wild plants inspire soft yellow-green shades of nettle and fennel flower, LNC-2034 is a beautiful sunshine colour extracted from local foraged wild buddleia plants. Cultivated dye plant coreopsis was gown and dried in Sussex and used to dye LNC-2038 and LNC-2035, offering rich and vibrant burnt orange shades.
Occupying the realm between the physical and digital worlds, colours blend and blur the illusion between real and unreal. Transient, light reflecting, shimmering surfaces merge from artificial cool iridescent to veiled pinkish tints (almost like human skin). A brave new world of biomaterials and lab-grown colours, translucent and opaque sheets of algae biosequins have a mineral-like glazed coating. A.I. informs visual perfections of graduated colours which are transient, momentary and fleeting.
Future Colour
Global Colour Forecasting
Future Stories
World-leading design insight is translated into the Macro Overview and the six directional stories.
100 pages of original photography
Macroview + Future design insight
Digital pdf book + Digital image library
Digital palettes + Adobe swatch colours
Sustainable
Our specialist partners are commitment to working with responsible production methods.
Certified carbon balanced
FSC certified recycled paper
Printed with non-toxic vegetable ink
Digital process to reduce water waste
Colour Library
We have over 1100 colours available to order, created to an exacting standard by our industry specialists.
