DesignHouse Industrial Color Trend Forecast - FUSE

TREND FORECAST METHODOLOGY

FORWARD-THINKING. EVOLUTIONARY. WORLD-INSPIRED. DESIGNHOUSE DESIGNHOUSE

Trend forecasting looks to the future but hinges on the here and now.

The team at the Sherwin-Williams DesignHouse is pleased to present our latest industrial color trend forecast. Rooted in science and art, and influenced by sustainability, environment, humanity and equality, our forecast aims to inspire and guide industrial, product and CMF designers through the sensational, layered world of color.

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INTRODUCING OUR LATEST TREND FORECAST

Reality is assembled in layers. The food we consume, transportation we rely on, buildings we occupy and relationships we form are constructed from fundamental pieces.

Likewise, our DesignHouse in Minneapolis exists from many elements. Once a carriage house and then corporate housing, the land is now in its third life as our collaborative studio. From furnace to facade, we dismantled and rebuilt a space that’s invigorated by history and emblazoned for design.

Layers – and the act of dissecting them – are critical for CMF and industrial designers. Taking every side, dimension and component into account, pieces fuse into parts, and parts fuse into products.

In the FUSE forecast, our team of color experts at the Sherwin-Williams DesignHouse examines how accountability, environment and empathy contribute to the functionalities of design, and the effects they will have on CMF and product development over the next 3-5 years. The stories of ACT, BFF and CEO overlap and blur lines between realities, merging planes of existence for collaborative pursuits.

PROGRAM SUPPORT

Trend Council Members

Leah Novotny

Industrial CMF Designer

Brynn Wildenauer

Architectural CMF Designer

Colorfully,

Kiki Redhead, CMG

Global CMF & Trend Manager, DesignHouse

Robyn Ommen Marketing Communications Marketing

Hannah Seeb Marketing Communications

Creative

Adam Neff Creative Services Manager

Jacob Kostelli Video & Photo Manager

Grace Mierau Content Manager

Shannah Byrnes Content Writer

Sammy Morgan Project Manager

Courtney Nuosci Project Manager

Justin Carolyne Graphic Designer

John Eldred Presentation Support

Olivia Hearn Illustrator

R&D Lab

Amanda Pevito R&D Chemist

Rachel Schwen Color Scientist

Tom Yungbauer R&D Chemist

Propelled by the multidimensional nature of individual perspectives, existence isn’t bound by a dichotomous world. We leave behind the “or” mindset. Instead, we embrace the “and” by intuitively making decisions that bring us inner joy. In this fusion of influences, reality can exist physically and digitally, life can thrive at work and home, and wellness can extend to both the individual and community.

Layers of influence

As a cohesive product was once many fragmented pieces, singular societal impacts blend and emerge to form layers of self, community and humanity. Fatigued by elements outside our realm of control, we redefine our engagement with the world. Experiences inform actions, which must be founded on trust instilled by the many institutions of life, from the workplace, to healthcare, to government, to infrastructure, to technology. Accountability, environment, and empathy are resurgent stories, rendering the influences of FUSE into intentional designs. the

PRODUCT Development Process

TOGETHER, WE...

Market

THRIVE Color match process starts

Marketing

Supply

ACCOUNTABILITYCENTERED TECHNOLOGY

Encrypted in the essence of our lives, technology connects, observes and informs. Reality recalibrates amid what is tangible and simulated. At the beating robotic heart of it all, technology and its overseers have immense obligations. Life remains governable, whether in the metaverse, mesaverse or multiverse.

We expect and enforce accountability from businesses, policymakers, healthcare providers and employers that the novelties piloting our lives are designed to support us, not backlog or harm us. Inviting technology into our sacred spaces, we adopt meta mindfulness and uphold responsibility.

LASER FOCUSED

Matte, warm white

Feels like sand

SYMBIOTIC

Silver and gold

Zinc substrate

FLUORESSENCE

FAIR TRADE

High-gloss

UNTETHERED

Organic green shifts to virtual violet

Rotogravure coil print

Architecture-grade finish

S-W Kameleon accent here

Horticulture Biomimicry

T1C2 Symbiotic

T1C1 Focused

Duality glistens in the undulating color shifts and vibrant illuminations of ACT.

Judiciously prodding the bounds of technology, we pioneer a new color spectrum – from the hum of manufactured neon to the glow of merging metallics, trusting in augmented perceptions of purple and green.

T1C4 Fair Trade

Brick by brick, fiber by fiber, code by code, built worlds arise from what was once only illusory. Our infrastructure is more than physical; it’s the scaffolding we traverse between places and relationships. The gradations constructing psyches, mass disruptions paving biospheres and ambitious plans to lay new groundwork are fiber-optic connections stimulating growth. Dullness and dilapidation know no home here.

We cast our decisions onto the blueprint of the future, curating spaces that harmonize environment, wellness, policy and intention. Hospitality returns home, yesterday’s meccas adopt new conventions and immersion pervades the senses to build layer upon layer of awe-inspiring experiences. We step, not gingerly but calculatedly, together into beachcombed universes fabricated for our success.

BUILDING FUTURES

FORTIFIND

Secondary material:woven leather rope in beige

Color: terracotta, Southwest-style

Super durable outdoor powder

Historic architecture Earthen clay Corten steel Foraging Lost and found

FROM THE GROUND UP

Rose gold?pink?

PLACEMAKING

Placemaking

Soft-touch

Low-gloss,

PROCURE

Classic walnut refreshed

Timber framing Restoration Ownership Global supply chain Origin

STRATUM

S-WIW wood finish on seat aggregate texture speckledconcrete,but warmer tone day at the park

VOLATILE

Dark green forests oroceanic depths?

T2C2 From the Ground up

T2C3 Placemaking

T2C1 Fortifind

T2C4 Procure

Sidle up to the restorative organics of BFF – built by humans, for humans.

Construct country roads of rose gold, strongholds of rusty clay and communities of lush green. Uncover solace between smoothed bark and rocky sediment, unfazed by the green-black depths of future shock.

T2C5 Stratum

T2C6 Volatile

Emulsified in cultures at varying levels, empathy is seated at the desk of decision-making. We attune and atone for compassion’s presence in work, health and relationships. In our melting pot of responsibilities, we can either champion others or sit idly by. As conglomerates, we must design programs that include and diversify, and products that consider circularity from today’s use to tomorrow’s reuse. Sequentially, care culture fuses into the fabric of our economy.

CHIEF EMPATHY OFFICER

Empathy delegates life and its cycles, nurtured by the questions of found purpose. As individuals, are we our own CEOs? Do we make our decisions, or welcome the influence of others?

AROHA it pink?

INTROSPECTION

Crinkle orwrinkle texture?

Plastic control for contrast

CARE CULTURE

INPUT/ OUTPUT

INPUT over OUTPUT

REDISCOVERY

ESTEEM

Dripping in gold?

High-gloss

Aluminum base

T3C1

T3C2 Introspection culture

Dynamic perspectives elicit contemplative responses, urging acknowledgment of place and space.

Narrowed gazes capture the complexity of orange-infused fuchsia, gasping breath of second-life materials and delicate equilibrium of bold chromatics and new navy neutrals. Advocating for accessible gold, luxuries shift and shine.

T3C4

Input/Output

T3C5 Rediscovery

T3C6 Esteem

FROM PLASTIC TO POWDER

One coating technology, Powdura