THE DEMOGRAPHICS OF COLOR

摘要

Red is now the hot colorl Or is blue cool? Silver might be the in thing. Maybe it's black; then again, has black ever stopped being trendy? Color trends influence the design and construction industries as significantly as they affect the world of fashion. Color affects everything from paint to carpeting to curtain walls to glass coatings, and for virtually every building type. Determining which shades have it made is far from arbitrary. "Color popularity doesn't automatically change on January first," says Josette Buisson, artistic director for Pittsburgh Paints. Buisson spoke about the future of color at PPG Industries' ColorShare Forums in Manhattan and Chicago last month.