This course teaches applied color use for surface design (home décor, textile/printed fabric, soft goods/wearables). Projects will teach collection building for the seasonal consumer marketplace, how to work with trend/color forecasting, and sophistication in use of historical design as reference material. Students will learn production techniques for specifying color collections for manufacturing, industrial production guidelines for color control output and colorway file preparation, and how to present their projects to industry standard. Designing color palettes to a given theme, color "storytelling," effective methods of combining digital and analog processes, and color usage as relates to object and environmental application will also be covered.