What's the latest colours?

Pantone Inc. is a corporation headquartered in Carlstadt, New Jersey. The company is best known for its Pantone Matching System (PMS), a proprietary colour space used in a variety of industries, primarily printing, though sometimes in the manufacture of coloured paint, fabric, and plastics. (http//au.pantone.com) 

These are the colours that will end up in the latest fashion, colours in shoes, wallpaper, paints and the like. They are forecast ahead so the summer colours you see in the fashion magazines are the ones we will see in our next summer for example.

Creative design incorporating these colours will cater for the latest trends. The latest colours are accessible and will be evident in the new lines of clothing/home feature/ paints.

However, your own creativity is important too. Choosing your own colours makes your designing unique.

For choosing your own colours, become familiar with the colour wheel and how colours work. Then you have an infinite palette but one that compliments to enhance your designs. Remember, incorporating the principles of design (using the elements of design) is what brings your creative design together.

http://www.darlingdoodlesdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Standard-Color-Wheel-1024x791.jpg

Check out this Youtube clip    http://scottnaismith.com/the-colour-wheel/ . It's interesting to consider why do our printers use "magenta", "cyan" and "yellow" as the colours used to mix all the other colours in our printing when we usually think of red, blue and yellow as our primary colours!!

Try painting your own colour wheel with just the primary colours. Here is another youtube clip on how to do that by Scott Naismith.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6ZAsuiHvTo