Member Login/Logout

The Trend Curve™

The international authority on color and design trends in home furnishings

  • Home
  • Trend Store
  • Blog
  • About
    • What We Do
    • Consulting
    • About Michelle Lamb
    • The Trend Curve Story
    • The Trend Curve Team
    • Life of a Trend
  • Contact
  • Your Account
    • My Account
    • Pay Invoices Online
  • Members
    • Member Login / Logout
  •  

Looking Ahead: Color and Design Trends for 2020 and Beyond™

Nobody has a crystal ball when it comes to color and design trends, but having Michelle Lamb’s forecast in your hands is the next best thing. Here is your opportunity to get our Editorial Director’s insights for yourself.

Go Shopping

Trend Album™ Christmasworld 2018

Christmasworld 2018 was packed with trend evolutions and updates that will change the character of future Holiday assortments.

With over 150 images, our new trend report will help you understand the most important details so you can develop your next assortments!

Go Shopping

'Tis The Season™ 2019-2020
Color & Trend Forecast

‘Tis The Season™ 2019 – 2020 has everything you need to make your Season bright. Our newest color-and-trend forecast is packed with captivating images and details for 11 fresh trends. A dedicated palette for each trend calls out volume, accent and fashion-forward colors.

Go Shopping

Trend Album™ - Maison & Objét

Maison & Objét is known worldwide as one of the top go-to trade fairs for new trends. No wonder 76,502 visitors from 171 countries made their way to Paris for the September edition. The Trend Curve tells you about the trend colors, materials and motifs that made the show so important this season in this special report. 

Go Shopping

Haute Halloween & Fall™ 2019
Color & Trend Forecast

Halloween will never go away, but the way it is celebrated continues to evolve. New directions for 2019 will include themes that reflect the softer, less-intense approach favored by new Millennial parents, as well the scary looks that are fun for those who are older. You’ll find this and more in this report!

Go Shopping

The Trend Curve™ Newsletter

DON'T GUESS that your color and design choices will be successful. Create assortments that absolutely hit the mark with consumers.

For 30 years, The Trend Curve newsletter gives industry professionals a trend expert’s perspective on the future of color, pattern and design for home interiors.

Go Shopping
trend-up

What We Do

If you are a manufacturer, retailer, interior designer, marketing or visual display professional—or if you work with clients in these businesses—you know your future relies on staying up-to-speed on home furnishings color, pattern and design trends.

Learn more...
why

Why Become a Member?

As a Member you will be kept up-to-date on the latest trends in home furnishings through The Trend Curve™, receive substantial discounts to products in the Trend Store, special Member content as well as other benefits.

Learn more...
consulting

Consulting & Services

Marketing Directions’ clients include the leading manufacturers, retailers, home-interior, floral and automotive designers in the world. We offer private consulting, targeted presentations, trend seminars & workshops, articles and more.

Learn more...
ttc-team-new

The Trend Curve Team

When you see a name below a post, or read the name of an editorial correspondent in The Trend Curve, you might wonder who they are and why you should trust their trend perspective. Here's a brief snapshot of those people.

View the team...

Are you ready to find out how we can help you succeed?

Become a Member Today!

Recent Posts

Escape Reality: sail away from the real world into a virtual world

Ready for Heimtextil 2019

With just a few days before Heimtextil 2019 opens at Messe Frankfurt, there’s once again optimism in a new year. That’s in spite of economic volatility and political unrest globally. One reason is the theme for the 2019/2020 design trends, always one of the most anticipated presentations at the annual international trade fair for home […] Read more...

IMG_8799

SoCal Halloween

Since moving to Southern California from Minneapolis a few months ago, I have discovered that many elements of décor remain consistent across the miles, yet some things are different. Take Halloween decorating, for example. It turns out that kids here in SoCal love decorating their homes just as much as those in the Twin Cities. […] Read more...

Raz Imports

Gingham? Check!

If you count yourself among gingham’s adoring fans, get ready to be wowed. A revival of these cheerful checks is emerging for tableware and décor that feel breezy and lighthearted. Assortments debuting at Dallas Market Center in June, and AmericasMart in July showed off a range of sizes, colors and applications. Ginghams popped up in […] Read more...

Dolce Casa

Smitten by Texture at GHFW

After years of focus on minimalist simplicity, consumers began to crave product designs with a different sort of character. Mixed media combinations were the market’s first response to that need. The next step was texture. And once consumers got a look at what texture could provide, they were smitten. Now textures are in the midst […] Read more...

Texteis Penedo

These Ideas Are On The Fringe

For so many years fringe has been thought of (when anybody thought of it at all) as down-market. It had a reputation for being thin and scraggly, and it always got tangled in the wash. No wonder fringe faded from view long ago. But now fringe is back in a big way, and it has […] Read more...

Unicorn + Zeebra = Zoonicorn

Top Trends: Licensing International Expo 2018

Themes noted among the 389 exhibitor booths on the floor of the 2018 edition of Licensing International Expo were as varied as the product that represented them. They included the continued growth of collectible toy brands as licensed properties, merchandise with a message, properties tied to digitally distributed content (like streaming entertainment and online influencers), […] Read more...

FancyFoodLogo

Fancy Food Gets Ugly

The Summer Fancy Food Show is the largest specialty food-industry event in North America. Held at New York’s Javits Center, this year’s show provided a snapshot of upcoming food trends. Food and licensing expert Leigh Ann Schwarzkopf of Project Partners Network identified one of those trends as sustainability. Bringing the topics of “reclaimed” and “food” […] Read more...

dmc-tv-interview-th

Interviews at Dallas Market Center — June 2018

What do you get when you combine a floral-trends expert with a home-décor trends expert? The answer: Grow With Us, a day of education and inspiration sponsored by Dallas Market Center, which took place on June 20th. Led by uBloom’s J Schwanke and The Trend Curve’s Michelle Lamb, this session was attended by retailers, designers and product-development specialists […] Read more...

Mina Victory at Nourison

High Point Had a Lot of Dogs

Llamas may be on-trend, but dogs are not giving up their share of the whimsical-animal pie without a fight. At the High Point furniture market, dogs appeared in framed art and on trays, as the inspiration for the shapes and surface designs on rugs and embossed onto hardware for kids’ furniture. Dogs were appliquéd onto […] Read more...

P1110288

Student Designers at FURNEX

FURNEX & The Home is the largest trade fair in Africa. Held annually in Cairo, Egypt, it hosts the top Egyptian furniture manufacturers, exporters and traders serving domestic, regional and international markets. This year, it was also host to a student exhibition called Soft and Hard. The challenge to students from German University in Cairo […] Read more...

Glassor

Dots are On-Trend for Christmas

I just finished writing Trend Album™: Christmasworld 2018, The Trend Curve’s trend report about the Christmasworld trade fair that runs about 80 pages and includes more than 150 images. Among the noteworthy surface-design trends for Christmas was dots. Dots are trending for Christmas because they are trending in everyday décor. And they’re going to be […] Read more...

Bernie Murphy Textile Artist

MADE/Slow at Showcase Ireland

Showcase was founded by the Design and Crafts Council of Ireland 42 years ago. Today, it is among The Trend Curve’s favorite trade fairs. Why? Because most of the products found at this annual Dublin-based event are designed and made by Irish crafters, so the quality is high. Even better, these are products you can’t […] Read more...

Target

Lessons Learned from Halloween 2017

Those who create retail assortments rarely get a full view of what happens to products they develop and select at the fateful point of purchase. Which items really made cash registers ring? Which in-store displays actually swayed customers to buy? Not knowing the answers to these questions can feel like sending a message in a […] Read more...

Graypants' Chronalights

The Allure of Outer Space in Décor

It seems that designs suggesting outer space can always be found in décor. But lately, they are being seen more often, and in a larger variety of interpretations. And although lighting seems to have a particular affinity for the topic, space-themed designs are also cropping up in a greater range of product types, from furniture […] Read more...

tsor-halloween17-pi2

Halloween 2017 in a Few Words

I recently finished writing a retail reconnaissance report, along with my licensing-genius colleague, Leigh Ann Scharzkopf of Lookout Marketing. While we have created an entire series of these store-check reports, called Taking Stock of Retail™, the subject of this version was Halloween 2017. Scouring through thousands of pictures snapped by our team at retail to […] Read more...

MadcapCottageRobertAllenIMG_4478

The New Look For Dots

Dots started to attract The Trend Curve’s attention at the beginning of 2017. The reason they stood out was a new level of sophistication that made polka-dots look positively dated. At December’s Showtime textiles market, dots grabbed the eye again, this time because of a hand-drawn character that made them feel soft and approachable. They […] Read more...

mf-intro-heimtextil-2018

Heimtextil 2018

Heimtextil is the biggest international trade fair for home and contract textiles, and because it’s the first trade fair of the year for its sector, it acts as a barometer for the new business year. Interestingly, however, the next edition of it (to be held from January 9th through 12th 2018) will emphasize space, as […] Read more...

14 Karat Home

Deconstruction: The Next Textiles Trend

One of the biggest trends for home décor fabrics features a hand-stitched look that The Trend Curve has been writing about for the past year. Whether woven in for upholstery or done by hand as an embellishment on items like cushions, embroidery and crewelwork looks are experiencing a pile-on of popularity, and there’s no end […] Read more...

LebaTex - Allison Eden Studios

Get Ready for More Purple

Ultra Violet may be Pantone’s Color of the Year for 2018, but a quick glance around the Showtime textiles market in December revealed that Ultra Violet is not the only purple trending for next year. From amethyst to royal and from lavender to plum, purples made surface designs look fresh. Seen in both printed and […] Read more...

Valdese Weavers

Going West at Showtime

While most collections were exploring a Boho revival for décor (driven in great part by the success of Justina Blakeney’s book, The New Bohemians), an American West theme was quietly emerging at the Showtime textiles market. Showtime was not the first time a Western trend got noticed. Hints of this look were also visible at […] Read more...

View all posts...

Trend Store Categories

  • Trend Storefront
  • The Trend Curve
  • Color & Trend Forecasts
  • Seasonal Forecasts & Reports
  • European Trend Reports
  • Trend Seminars & Reports
  • Retail Reconnaissance
  • $150 or Less Clearance

Sign Up for Email Updates

Connect With Us!

  • Email
  • Facebook
  • RSS
  • Twitter

Contact Us

Marketing Directions, Inc.
38 Alienta LN
Rancho Mission Viejo, CA 92694

Phone: 952-893-1245
Fax: 952-893-1264
Toll-Free: 800-531-6614
Skype: TheTrendCurve
Email: info@trendcurve.com

Copyright © 2019 · Marketing Directions, Inc. · Trend Staff: Log in