Year in review: Your top colour inspiration of 2024.

As 2024 begins to wind down, we're taking a look back at our most exciting features on colour throughout the year.

From Miami Art Deco inspired interiors to sumptuous shade, Mocha Mousse, announced by Pantone as 2025’s Colour of the Year - it’s been a year of both refreshing and restoring uses of colour, widespread throughout the creative sectors.

Here's a selection of your firm favourites from the last 12-months...

Dutch Design Week 2024: Our colour and craft highlights

Dutch Design Week provided us with a plethora of innovative colour insights. Collating these together, our round up of colour and craft top spots aims to share different approaches to using colour, which can be implemented into a variety of interior schemes.

In our 2024 round up, you can find experimental design studio, Raw Color. Harnessing hues to transform everyday objects, the design practice impressed us with its limited-edition Tesammans collection, created in collaboration with IKEA. Playfully probing different shades as they react with light, materials, and movement, the design studio created a series of objects for the home that truly transform interior spaces, and consequently wellbeing.

Read our full colour and craft focused round up here.

Amiko Gelato: The Miami Art Deco inspired ice cream parlour by Masquespacio.

Amiko Gelato - a whimsical, Wes Anderson-like ice cream parlour designed by Masquespacio - features vibrant colours and surreal shapes, transporting guests to a “parallel universe”.

Taking cues from the Art Deco of Palm Beach County in Miami, Masquespacio re-imagines this design era with a futuristic twist.

Located on a street adjacent to Paseo de García in Barcelona, the Amiko Gelato ice cream parlour has been transformed into a full sensory experience, with every corner a work of art.

Sporting a striking candy-coloured palette of both lime and olive greens, salmon pinks, and earthy terracottas, the Amiko Gelato ice cream parlour was a shoo-in for our top colour inspirations of 2024.

To explore the Amiko Gelato ice cream parlour in detail, click here.

Enso by Ekho Studio

Coupling cobalt blues with tones of terracotta, Ekho Studio’s purpose built student accommodation project, Enso looks to Colchester’s historic past to inspire its colour and material palette.

For the project concept, Rachel Withey and the Ekho Studio team took primary inspiration from a sense of place, focusing particularly on Colchester’s architectural heritage from the Roman period.

Certain forms and elements from that period remain intact, standing out as a common thread through the city’s history and architecture, from Roman arches to the town’s layered brick walls.

Ekho Studio took inspiration from these key visual and architectural features and used them to formulate a consistent design language for the scheme that translates right across the interior spaces.

The second thread of inspiration is founded from nature. Colchester and the surrounding countryside is full of strong textures and dramatic forms and colours. The team successfully fused these elements of surrounding natural landscape with Roman-era references of local natural colours, and earthy and warm tones.

“By using these tones as ‘block’ colours, we created a vibrant, bold colour palette which works well with the forms but also has a softer feel”, Rachel Withey commented. “We emphasised the toasty burnt oranges and varying shades of pink that cloud and streak the traditional earthenware material of terracotta and complemented this with the natural greens/blues that reflect Colchester’s surrounding countryside.”

Discover more on Enso’s rich and inviting, Roman-inspired colour palette here.

Mocha Mousse announced as Pantone's Colour of the Year 2025.

Calling reference to our desire for comfort and simple pleasures, Pantone has unveiled Mocha Mousse as its Colour of the Year for 2025.

“Underpinned by our desire for every day pleasures, PANTONE 17-1230 Mocha Mousse expresses a level of thoughtful indulgence”, says Leatrice Eiseman, executive director, Pantone Color Institute.

“Sophisticated and lush, yet at the same time an unpretentious classic, PANTONE 17-1230 Mocha Mousse extends our perceptions of the browns from being humble and grounded to embrace aspirational and luxe. Infused with subtle elegance and earthy refinement, PANTONE 17-1230 Mocha Mousse presents a discrete and tasteful touch of glamour. A flavourful brown shade, PANTONE 17-1230 Mocha Mousse envelopes us with its sensorial warmth.”

Mocha Moussee is a colour that is reflective of simple pleasures and quiet luxury. It’s also a shade symbolic for slowing down.

For these reasons, Mocha Mousse - the raw version of our own 'Colour Story' Baked Clay - an installation at Material Source Studio - is, we feel, very much a shade of our time.

Read our full write-up on Pantone’s Mocha Mousse here.