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Design

Diriyah gets its own Pantone colour as part of cultural revival

The historic Saudi city of Diriyah now has a shade to call its own: Diriyah Tan.

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Retail

The anti-choice homeware movement

Overwhelmed by choice, Millennials are turning to brands that offer a streamlined, limited approach to homeware shopping.

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Marketing & Branding

Backdrop is rebranding the paint industry

The company is re-inventing the £127bn ($155bn, €139bn) home painting category for the Millennial generation.

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Design

Foam Studio conceptualises future car colours

The design studio has worked with chemical company BASF’s Coating Division on its influential trends book for automotive paints.

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Technology

Solar paint turns water vapour into energy

Australia – Developed by researchers at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, the paint absorbs water vapour and splits it to generate hydrogen.

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Design

Milan Salone 2016: Motion capture

Milan – Automotive brand Lexus is showing a series of kinetic structures and installations designed by Studio FormaFantasma.

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Marketing & Branding

Digital paint swatch

UK – Dulux’s latest advert is a digital upgrade of the paint swatch, brought to life in a cinematic telling of a dystopian future devoid of colour.

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Marketing & Branding

Choc art: The sweet treats that look like paints

Japan – Japanese design studio Nendo has created a set of chocolates that look like oil paints.

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Design

Shades of grey: Salon creates illusion of light

Tokyo – The GreeM salon in Tokyo is not an ideal space for a business where good lighting is considered pivotal. But Takara Space Design, which designed the space, used trompe-l’oeil paintings to make up for the small windows, which only allow in a little natural light to the studio.