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Colour Spectrum S/S 2014

Future Landscapes

Motivated by a fascination with science, space travel and the unknown, Future Landscapes combines factual scientific exploration with the fictional worlds that artists and designers are creating by means of imagining the future. Drawing inspiration from science fiction, abstract art and ambitious design concepts and collaborations, the resulting palette embraces cool grey tones alongside the lustres Yellow Foil and Orange Foil – that mimic insulating foils used in spacecraft.

Soft Lilac, Pearl Blue and Faded Rose are dulled, allowing Orchid and Lunar Blue to emerge as opaque accent colours – derived from other-worldly moving image experiments and photographic images of planets’ surfaces.

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7 Jun 2012
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