In addition to a variety of contributors who join our team to create our seasonal trend books, are our core team who help us create inspiring original images and print designs for our bi-annual Home & Interior and Kids Lifestyle trend books. Here we share a snapshot of some of the styling, prop creation and photography utilised in our Spring/Summer 2012 Home & Interiors trend books, along with some of the original prints designs used in our books.
In our Hate To Say We Told You So blog posts, we take the opportunity to demonstrate how we got the trends right for the season; from how well we’ve judged the social mood to design and colour influences. We look for examples of how our trends have been translated and adopted across home and interior product ranges and beyond.
Here we present the second in our series of posts, with a look at our Visionaire trend direction which, we forecast for home and interiors for Spring/Summer 2012, published back in March 2010.
‘With the rain looking as though it’s here to stay, the focus for homes and interiors has shifted away from the garden party, back to indoor entertaining’ writes Laura Jenkins, Editor at mydeco.com. ‘Neons and brights are going to be a big trend this summer, but for now you can get that spring feeling at home with sleek mixtures of ceramic, metallic and wooden pieces.’
Trend Bible have received some fantastic press coverage recently including coverage on BBC Radio 4 and in UK newspapers the Financial Times and the Independent but to name a few. Here we share some of these features with you.
Trend Bible’s This Month We Are... series of blog posts sees the Trend Bible team curate a monthly round-up of inspiring events, exciting music and design blog recommendations, but to name a few, to inspire and inform our readers.
For May’s post, we cast our net wide into the design community and invited Cat How from online design store, Howkapow, to guest contribute. Here, we find out what’s inspiring her this month.
In our third and final report from the epic Maison & Objet show in Paris, January 2012, we look at styling trends. Trend Bible Director Joanna Feeley and Senior Trend Researcher Jill Hawkins visited the show to report back for our clients, and here we share a snippet of what we saw.
Spraypaint effects and accidental, incidental use of colour on ceramics and glass add a sense of playfulness to tableware. This ‘rough luxe’ attitude to gold and other metallics blurs the boundaries between glam and rustic, approaching luxury in a very modern way, as above.
In our Hate To Say We Told You So blog posts, we take the opportunity to demonstrate how we got the trends right for the season; from how well we’ve judged the social mood to design and colour influences. We look for examples of how our trends have been translated and adopted across home and interior product ranges and beyond.
We kick-start this series with a look at our Palm Springs trend direction for home and interiors for Spring/Summer 2012, which we published back in March 2010.
At the recent Interiors UK trade show, we spotted a stand by a new East London interiors store, PITFIELD London – “an emporium or re-invented furniture, vintage finds, designer wallpapers, carpets and other curiosities.”
Always on the hunt for exciting and innovative interior products, we sent our stylist Cassandra Doyle to their recently opened store in Pitfield Street in London to find out more about the brand and ethos behind the store.
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“In 2009 Trend Bible predicted that Sentiment would be a key trend in Spring/Summer 2012, and as forecast, this nostalgic trend is exploding ahead of the Olympics and the Jubilee this summer,” writes Vicky Bullett, Editorial Assistant at mydeco.com.
We’re all feeling patriotic as we move ever closer to a busy summer of events. Fittingly, this trend is a nostalgic celebration of all things British and champions design classics alongside an eclectic mix of vintage-style typography, utilitarian style, florals and even Victoriana. Here are the main focuses for the Sentiment trend and how you can bring them into your home.
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