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Product Design

Design Forecasting

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The WGSN Fashion module includes forecast, color, materials, product development, design for women, men, and kids in all product categories. The WGSN Insight module provides consumer insights, big picture, age demographic reporting, social media/marketing, retail insights, and more. Users need to create an account with their uoregon.edu account while on campus or logged into the campus VPN.

Fashion Trendsetter
FashionTrendsetter.com is an online fashion and color forecasting, trend reporting and news e-zine which serves up-to-date fashion information from the major trade fairs, trend reports and fashion forecasts.
Gear Patrol
Founded in 2007, Gear Patrol provides independent hands-on testing of cars, tech, home, outdoors, style and watches to craft reports, reviews and guides.
Trend Hunter
Updated collection of cutting edge trends.

Sourcing

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Premiere trade journal for apparel and textiles focusing on sourcing and manufacturing. Covers global market conditions, news stories, and industry white papers.

Material District
Catalog of over 3,000 materials with images of example products.

Color

TinEye: Multicolr
Search over 20 million images on Flickr by color. Select up to five colors in varying ratios for a single search to experiment with different color palettes.
U.S. Team Colors
Provides hex, RGB, CMYK, and Pantone color codes for American teams.
Pantone
Coolors
Color scheme generator tool with apps for iOS and Chrome extension.

Moodboards

Moodboard
Free tool for creating simple moodboards without an account.
Pinterest
Platform for curating groups of images.

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