XYMARA Newsletter

Dear Xymara Reader

This month's Color Trend Research paper investigates "popup" events. What are they? Find out here!

The past month has been all about coatings and paints on XYMARA.com. We've improved the navigation to our Color Trend Vision pages and premiered our latest Color Trend Vision guidebook, Color Evolution * Wood, which offers 11 new trend stylings for wood coatings, and represents the first major new Color Trend Vision guide since the launch of the Color Evolution Guide #1 and the second update to our stylings since the launch of our plastics stylings in August of this year. Coatings trends also featured highly in form magazine's latest Special Edition on innovative materials, led off by an interview with XYMARA.com's Editor-in-chief.

And there have been a few major coatings-related events to talk about: Eurocoat has come and gone, and RadTech is just ending. We've also featured tools to help paintmakers create coatings, in the form of Ciba's ColorSpace colorant selector.

Lastly, this month, we also welcomed the return of Monika Fecht with new mood boards for 2008/2009 and the contribution of designer and materials expert Chris Lefteri's investigation into unusual and clever uses of materials. We hope to be seeing a lot more of Chris' insights on our pages in the near future!

As ever: we hope you enjoy exploring our world of effects!

Le Vin Chin
Editor-in-Chief
XYMARA.com

Color Trend Research
EXCLUSIVE to the Ciba® XYMARA™ Newsletter: In-depth studies on the science, art and philosophy of color and design.


	Always only the unusual: Popup Consumerism

News
What's new and what's happening in the world of effects? We provide information on design trends, market players, novel products and innovative technologies.


	Watch out for wood! - Launch of Color Evolution * Wood

	The Essence of Tahiti … in a bottle

	ColorSpace - the visual web-based palette

Designers' Corner
All about design, from inspiration to concrete examples, via interviews with designers and features on events and trends.


	A World of Contrasts - Monika Fecht shows us her mood boards for 2008/2009

	Abducted Materials - Chris Lefteri shows how the innovative use of materials in design is limited only by the imagination …

	What material trends do you perceive in your market segment?

Events
Where to go to find inspiration - or to meet your network of contacts? We highlight the most influential design shows, trade shows and press events.


	Preview of RadTech Europe 2007 - UV/EB: the Natural Choice

	Review of the Fête de la Science, Mulhouse, France

	Review of Eurocoat 2007

INMYX
Highlights from XYMARA.com's companion online magazine


	Hütten und Paläste (Huts and Palaces): Wooden Cabins for the Big City

Always only the unusual: Popup Consumerism

More and more consumers are turning their backs on established vendors. Temporary, spontaneous and unusual concepts are luring
buyers and epicures - "popup" is the buzzword of the avant-garde consumers...

Color Trend Research November 2007 (PDF 420 KB)

A World of Contrasts - Monika Fecht shows us her mood boards for 2008/2009

How do color stylists create the color palettes for next year's products? In the fourth of our series, Monika Fecht, Head of Design Management at Renolit, returns to show us the mood boards she developed to create the colors for 2008-2009. Click onto the photos to get better quality images.

Read full article on www.xymara.com

Abducted Materials - Chris Lefteri shows how the innovative use of materials in design is limited only by the imagination …

There is no doubt that there is a growing movement within the design community that is centered around the use of materials to create new products, buildings and environments. New books, online databases and consultancies that specialise in materials and design are increasingly filling the gap that has traditionally existed between the materials industries and designers.

Read full article on www.xymara.com

What material trends do you perceive in your market segment?

XYMARA.com's editor-in-chief is interviewed in a special issue of form magazine devoted to materials trends, released this month, alongside issue #217. The issue, entitled Exciting Materials!, also contains features on Ciba® IRGAZIN® DPP Cosmoray™ Orange, Ciba® XYMARA™ Satin Black Pearl, the Color Trend Vision Color Evolution Guide #1 and a page printed using MetalFX® printing technology.

Read full article on www.xymara.com

Watch out for wood! - Launch of Color Evolution * Wood

Wood is moving out into the light and exploding into color with 11 new trend shades specially designed for use with wood in Ciba's new color trend publication: Color Evolution * Wood.

Read full article on www.xymara.com

The Essence of Tahiti … in a bottle

Colgate-Palmolive has chosen Ciba® XYMARA™ effect pigments for the packaging of a new aroma of Tahiti, a classic French shower gel brand.

Read full article on www.xymara.com

ColorSpace - the visual web-based palette

Finding exactly the right color has become quite a bit easier with the newly launched ColorSpace web application on the Ciba® Imaging & Inks website and Paints & Coatings website. Use your mouse to move through a 3D palette and find just the color you are looking for - ColorSpace provides palettes for paints & coatings as well as imaging & inks.

Read full article on www.xymara.com

Preview of RadTech Europe 2007 - UV/EB: the Natural Choice

From November 13 to 15, Vienna will once again host this year's RadTech Europe conference and exhibition, making it the place for everyone involved with - or interested in finding out more about - ultraviolet (UV) and electron beam (EB) radiation curing technology as well as innovative UV and EB applications.

Read full article on www.xymara.com

Review of the Fête de la Science, Mulhouse, France

It's not just about the major design shows in London and Paris. Ciba® XYMARA™ also engages with younger minds - the designers and materials scientists of tomorrow - at a local level! Here's a report from Ciba colleague James Posey on a regional event which sparked a lot of interest in XYMARA.

Read full article on www.xymara.com

Review of Eurocoat 2007

The well-tailored, relaxed and expressive demeanor of the attendees already points to our southern European location - Genoa is bracketed by steep hills and the sea and, like a perfect host, it offers us a November welcome of sunshine and 20 °C.

Read full story on www.xymara.com

Hütten und Paläste (Huts and Palaces): Wooden Cabins for the Big City

At first glance, it seems incongruous, out of place. What is a wooden cabin doing in the middle of a big city? Are we going back to previous eras? Will we all soon be living as if we were in the country? One might have that impression, now that wooden cabins by the office of Hütten und Paläste (Huts and Palaces) are not only to be found in the pages of architecture magazines but also seen in real-life in the heart of Germany's buzzing capital, Berlin. Similar trends are noticeable in the U.S.A. and Canada. However, none of the comparable architecture is quite so cabin-like, nor does it better allay the initial fear that we are looking backwards and not forwards....

Read full article on www.xymara.com/inmyx


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