Trend Forecasting

TREND FORECASTING … Explained

Trend Forecasting is a powerful tool that presents not only a reliable view of future design trends but also provides you with the confidence and reassurance that your creative and business decisions are informed decisions.  Whether you are a Product Designer, Manufacturer, Retailer, Designer/Maker or Interior Designer our Trend Forecasting services will benefit your work.

Trend Forecasting is a discipline involving skills from the worlds of both Design and Social Science.  Our comprehensive research of a broad spectrum of global social issues, planned future events and latest concept designs is brought together for analysis and translation in order to reliably predict the future design trends for Interiors.  These issues affect the mood in society, consumers changing values, priorities and interests and, ultimately, they influence the products and styles people will want in their homes and expect from hotels and retail environments in the future.

Our strong and varied contacts allow us to take account of the development work of influential and inspiring Creatives in areas such as Product Design, Interior Design and Architecture that will eventually influence other Designers, Manufacturers and Retailers at other market levels.

With 26 seasons of Forecasting experience we are able to track the transition of design trends and make very specific predictions identifying the colours, patterns, shapes, materials, interior schemes, products and functions that will satisfy consumer’s desires at a fixed point in the future.  This information will allow you to design, source or manufacture in advance with complete confidence.

TREND FORECASTING … Applied

Trend Forecasting enables you to make more informed decisions, inspire your team and lead with confidence.

• Removes the guesswork when developing design lines.
• Allows maximum planning and development time for in-house buying teams.
• Allows you to select and style on-trend in-store/window displays.
• Allows you longer deadlines on design projects, reducing stress.
• Ensures your product is in line with, and successfully relates to, all interior product areas currently in the market.

OUR REPORTS

Autumn/Winter & Spring/Summer Seasonal Trend Reports

• An overview of the season including key changes in consumer attitudes.
• Details of the 6 seasonal trends including information on influencing factors causing the trend to emerge, key design features, patterns, styling, materials and colour palette (Pantone referenced).
• 6 Trend Boards featuring the work of international Designers and Artists, and colour palette; providing a clear visual interpretation of the seasons design themes.

Available in hard copy or electronic formats.

Priced at £995 + VAT / $1495

Product Specific Seasonal Trend Report Package

• The Autumn/Winter & Spring/Summer Seasonal Trend Report  

PLUS:

• ‘Key Features’ page for each of the 6 trends providing specific information on what each trend means for your elected product sector, what design traits and materials should be considered and employed to fit each trend. 
• Copies of the 6 original Trend Boards; mounted on foam core board with a protective surface finish (approx. A2 size).
• A presentation of the report by one of the Scarlet Opus Trend Forecasters, to a group of your employees – this may include your external design company – at a location of your choice in the UK or UAE including a Q & A session.  (If outside of the UK or UAE this will incur travel & accommodation expenses.)

Contact designteam@scarletopus to confirm price

Opus Lite Trendzine

Our Opus Lite trendzines provide a snack-sized snapshot of 3 of the coming season’s trends.  Our trendzines give a condensed overview of 3 trends from our main report whilst still containing information on the main influencing factors causing the trends to emerge, key design features, patterns, styling, materials, colour palette (Pantone referenced) and trend boards.

Priced at £45 / $69

The text within a report can be utilised in any way but, if you wish to attribute it to Scarlet Opus in any PR, we reserve the right to approve the final text to ensure our original meaning has been maintained.

TREND BOARDS

Autumn/Winter & Spring/Summer Seasonal Trend Boards

Copies of our 6 seasonal Trend Boards can be purchased individually or as full sets, independently from a trend report.  Featuring the work of international Designers & Artists and colour palette, the boards provide a clear visual interpretation of the future seasons design themes.

Available in hard copy (mounted on foam core board with a protective surface finish – approx. A2 size) and electronic format.

Individual Trend Boards at £100 + VAT / $150

Full set of 6 Trend Boards at £500 + VAT / $750

Product Specific Trend Boards

We can build a set of seasonal trend boards focusing on a product sector of your choice.  We will provide you with the original trend boards (approx. A2 size) along with electronic copies in high resolution jpg format 

Priced at £500 + VAT / $750 each

Our Seasonal & Product Specific Trend Boards are copyright protected to protect all of the image contributors featured and are therefore for internal purposes only e.g. to inspire in-house designers or your suppliers.  They may not be copied or re-distributed outside of your direct employee/supplier group.

Copyright Owned Seasonal Trend Boards

We can build seasonal trend boards specifically for you to which you can own copyright.  We will provide you with the original trend boards (approx. A2 size) along with electronic copies in high resolution jpg format and copies of the image contributors permissions for their images to be included on the trend boards of which you will have free use.

Priced at £750 + VAT / $1125 each

SURFACE PATTERN DESIGN & COLOUR SERVICES

As Trend Forecasters we are uniquely placed to offer the very best Surface Pattern for businesses in the Interiors sector.  With a wealth of future and current trend information at our fingertips we are able to design collections for you that take account of this valuable resource.  Our in-depth understanding of design direction, colour and materials, as well as consumers wants, needs and desires, enables us to create designs that will be right for you and your customers.  We are an experienced design team and have worked with Manufacturers and Retailers internationally.

Surface Pattern Design

Print-ready, in exact repeat and with Pantone references to make colour matching easy.  No matter what design style you desire or what type of product the pattern will finally be applied to … we can design it!

As a guide, simple designs can normally be completed in 3 hours.

Studio rate £125 / $190 per hour

Colourways

Re-colouring existing designs and products can completely update your product range, attract new customers and increase sales.  If you require new colourways for existing designs and products in your range or additional colourway options for designs we have created for you, we can use our colour trend expertise to produce wonderful new colourways. 

As a guide colourways can normally be completed in 1 – 3 hours.

Studio rate £125 / $190 per hour