COLORBARK AW 26/27 FORECAST PRESENTS OUR OWN COLOR TREND DIRECTION FOR THE UPCOMING DESIGN CYCLE, BORN FROM INDEPENDENT RESEARCH INTO THE GLOBAL EVOLUTION OF DESIGN, MATERIALITY, AND EMOTION. CREATED FOR INTERIOR DESIGNERS, ARCHITECTS, AND CREATIVE PROFESSIONALS, THIS EDITION REVEALS THE COLOR STORY THAT WILL SHAPE THE NEXT DESIGN SEASON, ACROSS INTERIORS, PRODUCTS, AND VISUAL IDENTITY.

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COLORBARK AW 26/27 Forecast

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What’s Inside

The AW 26/27 Forecast is delivered as a digital download (63 pages), designed as professional presentation sheets in a clean layout, easy to consult, share, and integrate into your design process. Inside, you’ll find:
✔️ 14 key seasonal shades with emotional and conceptual cues
✔️ Tactile translations per color, turning chromatic ideas into material direction
✔️ Macro creative insights connecting color with culture, lifestyle, and aesthetic evolution
✔️ Visual and verbal guidance for applying color across interiors, products, branding, and digital projects.
Created to support creative direction and concept development, the Forecast helps professionals anticipate change, communicate vision, and design with clarity and confidence.

Format & Delivery

Digital format (PDF) professional A3 layout with instant download after purchase.
You’ll receive two separate emails: one with your order confirmation and another with the download link.
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From Insight to Application

The A/W 26/27 Forecast is designed to support every stage of your creative process:

/ Define your seasonal color strategy for upcoming projects or collections
/ Build moodboards and visual stories that align with the evolving design landscape
/ Inspire product development and spatial styling with new color possibilities
/ Communicate color direction clearly across teams, clients, and creative partners
Color trends are not rules, but they are inspirations and signals that help you understand the broader visual culture. Some may fit your brand or project perfectly, others may not. Being aware of them allows you to make more intentional, informed, and relevant design choices.
Whether you’re designing a new space, collection, or campaign, the A/W 26/27 Forecast helps you stay creatively open while remaining true to your own direction.

Why It Matters

As design evolves faster than ever, color remains the most immediate language of emotion and meaning.
The A/W 26/27 Forecast doesn’t follow external trend agencies: it defines a unique chromatic vision built from our research, connecting emotional storytelling with material and cultural shifts across interiors, products, and branding. Each edition is hand-curated, independent, and designed to help professionals make confident, future-ready design choices rooted in real creative direction.
Curated by Elisabetta Rizzato, architect and founder of ITALIANBARK® and TRENDBARK, this edition is part of the COLORBARK System,  a growing platform that connects creative vision with real-world color application. Every COLORBARK resource is independent, practical, and hand-curated to make color usable, emotional, and intelligent in design.
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