Encountering the 2018 Color of the Year on a stroll downtown Greenville

Days are getting shorter (at least here in the northern hemisphere), and it is (finally!) getting cooler in South Carolina.

Can you imagine we already are in October? Almost Halloween, then Thanksgiving, and before we know it it will be December. Amongst all the exciting stuff that happens in December each year is one important event that impacts the art and interior design business: the Pantone Color Of The Year will be announced.

As you will remember, this year's Color of the Year is Ultra Violet, about which I wrote extensively in December 2017. A color I have encountered numerous times past year in art, magazines, furniture, ornaments, accents, and other interior design related areas.

A very nice application of this color I saw a couple of weeks ago, walking downtown Greenville (SC) to take pictures for a project I started working on (a project I will have to postpone for quite some time for reasons I can not disclose yet; but more to come in a future blog post!).

I was taking pictures from a band and the crowd in front of the Hyatt Regency on Noma square when I turned around and saw this amazing light coming through the windows of the hotel front. And of course, I could not resist to capture it. Is the purple actually Pantone Ultra Violet? Probably not. But for sure it looks very much like it. Anyhow, I very much like how the purple and blue lines created by the light interact with the gray metallic lines of the window frames and with the dark areas created by the windows. To add dynamics, I took the image with a Dutch angle (or Dutch tilt).

While we all are in expectation for December's announcement of the Pantone Color of the Year 2019, I thought this was a great reminder of the fantastic color we focused on during 2018.