- Watch the videos
- Notice the colour world around you / fill in the colour research – gather pictures of influences
- Fill in the colour sheet
Colour Stories how colours – together- speak to us
(Analogous, Contrast, etc.)
- Create your Colour Story (palette)
- Tell us your Thoughts Describe Your Findings – written or verbally
Trending is about discovery
Three parts
1) Training
2) Discovery
3) Sharing (describing your selections)
1) CCA colour expert
2) promoted on Web page and member of the panel
3) your colour stories highlighted ***
4) all input culled and one Caribbean Colour of the Year announced and a colour palettes with the individual colours
5) take it to the streets – select a resident to have the colour painted on or in their home.
1st step not about colour
The needs emotional needs
Let’s see and name them
Stress? Fear? Breaking out?
Overwhelm?
What we are drawn to to make sense of our world
What we see
What we need
Global trends come from the global trajectory— the globalization
Oddly one of the biggest global trends reads is that we need our own sense of place of self our regional self, references what makes us different not homogenized – not homogeneous
Most trending organizations originated in Europe or North America
Used to follow fashion – runways and Vogue magazine
Before that the wealthy who traveled and were inspired by what they saw — or what was new intriguing or different— access to new materials, techniques, colors and cultures
Defining Culture
Heritage origin –
Colours as defined locally
Meaning for us
Associations —
-some color meanings
There are no new colors – just new needs
This exciting opportunity to identify and then forecast the colors of the Caribbean answers that needs for recognition of place, value, desire
Influences
Caribbean is colorful – many theories about why and we may discover more
What is certain
Individual nature of each Caribbean local culture is unique
Opportunity to be a voice for your country, and seen as an expert- highlighted in social media and marketing of the colours reflection the unique way of life in the local culture
unique colour trends
what we long for