COLOR ATLAS 26/27 is your essential guide to mastering color as a strategic design tool.
Created for brands and professionals working across interiors, materials, and visual identity, this edition goes far beyond trend forecasting—it offers future-facing color intelligence that’s ready to apply across real-world projects.
In today’s rapidly shifting world, color is more than aesthetics—it’s a language that shapes how people feel, behave, and engage with space. Understanding which colors matter now, and why, is essential for creating work that resonates on both an emotional and cultural level.
Each story in COLOR ATLAS 26/27 merges insight with longevity—translating trend direction into curated palettes, emotional nuance, and actionable guidance. These are not simply hues, but creative instruments for designing environments, products, and narratives that reflect how people want to live, feel, and thrive.
Whether you lead design for interiors, products, branding, or spatial experiences, this is more than a source of inspiration—it’s a refined, emotionally intelligent system for designing with purpose and staying confidently ahead of the curve.
Whether you're an interior designer, architect, product or furniture developer, brand strategist, visual designer, or trend researcher, the COLOR ATLAS 26/27 is built to support your work with clarity and strategic value. Use it to:
✓ Stay ahead of emerging color and design shifts
✓ Save time with curated palettes and ready-to-use harmonies
✓ Align your work with human emotions and sustainability goals
✓ Communicate your creative vision with confidence and impact
Already trusted by professionals across Europe, the Americas, the Middle East, and Asia, this edition offers an independent, non-sponsored perspective—bringing you global color insights grounded in timeless design and practical application.
✓ Guide your team or brand with a strategic color system that supports future collections, set design, storytelling, and product vision—keeping you consistently aligned with what’s next.
✓ Stand out as an independent professional with a trusted, ready-to-use resource that sharpens proposals, client work, and trend-aligned projects.
✓ Master seasonal color strategy with two expertly curated palettes for A/W 26/27 and S/S 2027—complete with names, codes, and harmonies for instant application.
✓ Bridge color theory and design trends through original color stories that translate palettes into clear, aesthetic directions for spaces, products, and visuals.
✓ Elevate your creative language with tactile translations, material pairings, and sustainable suggestions that add depth across every design layer.
✓ Design with emotional clarity using intuitive duos, trios, and guided harmonies tailored for interiors, branding, and product development.
✓ Move from insight to execution with curated moodboards, material references, and AI-enhanced prompts that accelerate your creative process.
✓ Align with evolving values by creating spaces and products that reflect emotional, cultural, and ecological relevance.
✓ Think beyond trends with insight into the deeper roots of emerging aesthetics—building long-term design intelligence.
✓ Trust a non-sponsored, independent resource relied upon by professionals worldwide for its clarity, originality, and strategic value.
✓ Work smarter with a toolkit that blends intuition and precision—refining your process, strengthening your team’s output, and enhancing your presentations.
✓ Gain a globally relevant perspective rooted in Italian and European design culture, refined through international foresight for timeless creative relevance.
Two macro palettes—one for Autumn/Winter 26/27, one for Spring/Summer 2027—offering a forward-looking foundation for designers, brands, and creative teams seeking to build collections with emotional depth and strategic coherence.
Signature hues, carefully selected to embody the emotional, cultural, and aesthetic direction of the moment. These are not just trend colors, but statements of intent for future design.
Original, editorial-style stories that translate cultural signals into visual and material direction. These narratives serve as strategic frameworks—uniting color, texture, and form into cohesive design visions that inspire and inform across disciplines.
Editorial-style stories that decode cultural signals into visual and material direction.
Each narrative offers a strategic framework, weaving color, texture, and form into cohesive concepts that guide and inspire design decisions across disciplines.
Designed to bridge insight with execution. You'll find practical tools and prompt systems that unlock new creative workflows—ideal for high-efficiency teams, freelancers, and anyone working at the intersection of design and technology.
Support intuitive creativity while maintaining professional-level precision—essential for spatial, product, and visual storytelling
A professional-grade reference matrix that brings clarity and structure to the entire palette universe. With searchable attributes and creative metadata, it’s a behind-the-scenes engine for smart, strategic color decision-making.
COLOR ATLAS 26/27 is in digital format, downloadable and immediately accessible once completed the purchase.
More than a trend forecast - COLOR ATLAS 26/27 is a practical, emotionally intelligent color system made for real work, real clients, and real impact.
✓ From Palette to Project
Move beyond abstract inspiration. Every color harmony, material pairing, and visual cue is designed for direct use in spatial design, product development, branding, and storytelling.
✓ Cross-Disciplinary Relevance
Created for professionals who work across interiors, furniture, materials, packaging, branding, content creation, and visual direction. One resource—multiple applications.
✓ Future-Ready Thinking
This isn’t about predicting fads. It’s about understanding what’s changing—and why—through color stories built on cultural signals, lifestyle shifts, and material trends.
✓ Real-World Application
Every palette has been paired with practical references. You’ll find case-based visuals, moodboards, and suggested applications to help you translate concepts into client-ready work.
✓ AI-Enhanced Creative Tools
Includes exclusive prompt templates to accelerate your process—whether you're designing a space, crafting a pitch, or building a concept deck. This edition in particular is complemented with additional interactive tools (....) to further support you in your creative work.
✓ Handcrafted Curation & Field Research
Our insights come from the ground—not just the screen. The Atlas is built on first-hand research from Europe’s leading design events, layered with digital trend intelligence and global aesthetic filters.
✓ Independent & Non-Sponsored
Unlike many other reports, the COLOR ATLAS is free from paid placements or commercial bias. Every color, material, and reference is selected for its real value—not its marketing spend.
COLOR ATLAS 26/27 is a carefully authored resource—crafted by a design expert with over a decade of hands-on trend research and creative direction. Each story, palette, and reference is curated with precision, grounded in real-world application, and guided by emotional intelligence, aesthetic strategy, and an uncompromising commitment to quality.
This is not an automated compilation—it’s a work of personal expertise, made for professionals who value depth, clarity, and purpose.
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Elisabetta Rizzato is a trained architect, trend forecaster, and founder of the internationally recognized design platform ITALIANBARK. With over 10 years of experience decoding design movements and future trends across Europe and beyond, she brings a rare blend of technical rigor, cultural insight, and creative intuition to every project. Her work bridges strategy and emotion, helping professionals turn trend intelligence into meaningful design. COLOR ATLAS 26/27 reflects her hands-on research, field experience, and commitment to creating tools that truly support the way designers think and work.
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