Friday, January 1, 2010

Interior Design Trends for 2010 - Oriental Sweetness

interior trend colorsAfter Woolmark has launched its new interior colour trends for 2010 /11 at the start of the New Year, it looks like Japanese Inspired themes are going tinterior design trendso be prevalent. It is still early days as far as interior predictions for 2010 , but we are going to look into one of the trends that is looking hot for next year, Oriental Sweetness & produce a dedicated range of canvas art prints to compliment it.

2010 Interior trends

It's all about the East: Asian & Oriental influences are key here. Look to vintage floral Japanese textiles for inspiration, simple and minimal shapes with striking colours.

Interior Design Trends for 2010 - Oriental Sweetness
interior trends 2010


The colour palettes for the 09 season features strong tones of red, purple and burgundy, contrasted with brighter shades or neutral tones in unlikely combinations. The base for all the colour palettes can be made up from Neutrals, white, brown and bark.

Japanese, Oriental florals are inherently simple in their form, one of the aspects that I love is the minimal block colour approach, it is like pop art, but pioneered hundreds of years early. If you look at Japanese & indeed a lot Asian art, it closely resembles what graphic design has nocolor trends for 2010 become in a CAD based world. Blocks of colour that would have been intricately painted with a watercolour brush is only now becoming a popular graphic design technique, thanks to Adobe Illustrator.

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