The Global Color Trends book highlights PPG’s Pause & Refresh theme for 2014 and the company’s color of the year – a buttercream yellow. The book details color families trending across industries and geographic regions, and it showcases five color trend “stories” for 2014, which are:

Hi-Breed emphasizes a new design harmony between man and nature with a palette consisting of neutrals, pastels and bright hues.
Mosaic is based on the wealth of artisan and craft patterns, shapes and prints, as well as their strong colorations.
New Spirit reflects earthy, primitive, raw colors as well as a new consciousness.
Magnifigance combines the words magnificent and elegance, and the palette recaptures extravagant, dramatic styling and opulent, regal colors.
Theorem is a precise and minimal palette that uses rich brown, purple and deep blue as accents for balanced neutrals.

Paint color names and codes are included for THE VOICE OF COLOR program and the GLIDDEN PROFESSIONAL, Canadian DULUX and Devoe brands in the book’s largest section, which details architectural color trends. Colors in building and decor are also shown by color family – reds, oranges, yellows, greens, blues, purples, and warm and cool neutrals. The section shows how these color family groupings have evolved in recent years. For example, it shows how a red that is trending now is different than a red trending last year or the prior year.

PPG employs more than 20 color stylists around the world, each specializing in different markets, who collaborate to determine styles and color trends for building and decor, electronics and automobiles. PPG’s unique position as a color leader in multiple markets enables it to observe and translate emerging global color trends for its customers’ applications – from consumer goods to automotive color, from residential to commercial to industrial design.

“Through our partnership with Pantone and the Valspar Love Your Color Guarantee, we continue to deliver on our promise to help people connect to the power of color,” said Sue Kim, color and trend specialist, Valspar. “Design-savvy consumers can infuse Radiant Orchid, a pleasing attention-getter, into their homes to add a sense of drama and glamour to any space.”

The website features multiple product images for every item, including pictures of physical cans, testimonial pictures, and end product images, giving the customer a feel for the product before purchasing. These show the common uses on warehouse flooring, driveways, walkways, airplane hangers, boats, and much more. Full screen images are available with a simple click, along with full product information, which is very important when thinking about installation and prep-work. Upon clicking on each product, available colors are made apparent by including drop-downs and examples of each.

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“We are very pleased to work with Valspar in this industry-changing effort,” said Irving A. Hultengren, managing director at MCI in Dongguan. “Our agreement with Valspar reinforces our commitment to building more sustainable containers. By using Valspar’s innovative waterborne coating system, we will help our customers and reduce the environmental footprint of our production.”

As part of the multi-year qualification process, Valspar has performed vigorous field tests and has produced a significant number of dry van shipping containers with third-party manufacturers.

“Maersk is a global leader in container-industry sustainability, and we are privileged to partner with them on this innovative coatings solution,” said Roeland Polet, Valspar senior vice president, Global Industrial. “This is an important step, and we proudly put our 60-plus years of waterborne coatings expertise forward as a cost-effective, sustainable solution.”

Valspar Aquaguard is an innovative two-coat, 100 percent waterborne coating system developed by Valspar that replaces high VOC, solvent based coatings. Valspar Aquaguard reduces VOCs by 94 percent, improves corrosion performance, reduces energy use and lowers emissions all while improving the working environment.