Pantone® announce the Color of the Year 2026
Pantone® Colour of the Year 2026 For the first time in years, I'm disappointed with the Pantone® colour of the year! Cloud Dancer 11-4201 It's white! And not even a nice white! To me, it feels like the 'experts' ran out of time and panicked to pick a colour. Has...
Library design: Sutton Courtenay CofE Primary School
objectives To support vision of all children at the school having a reading identity To create a library area that can be used as a teaching space for a whole class as well as a place for individual pupils to come and borrow books To feel like a real library as there...
Pantone® announce the Color of the Year 2025
Pantone® Colour of the Year 2025 The exciting news is that Pantone® have announced the colour of the year for 2025! Mocha Mousse 17-1230 A smooth and mouth watering cup full of colour. Mocha Mousse has been described by Pantone® as "a warm, earthy, soft brown that...
Library design: Carterton Primary School
objectives To create a flexible/movable library area that can be used as a teaching space for a whole class as well as a place for individual pupils to come and borrow books To involve pupils in design and decision process To promote pupil ownership of space To align...
Ten years of memories
ten years of memories This year marks 10 years since Hanami Dream was founded. Each month in the build up to the 10th birthday of Hanami Dream in July 2024, I'm taking a look at how the business has changed and different aspects that have shaped the business to where...
Ten years of achievements
ten more years of experience and accolades This year marks 10 years since Hanami Dream was founded. Each month in the build up to the 10th birthday of Hanami Dream in July 2024, I'm taking a look at how the business has changed and different aspects that have shaped...
Ten years of blogging
ten years of blogging This year marks 10 years since Hanami Dream was founded. Each month in the build up to the 10th birthday of Hanami Dream in July 2024, I'm taking a look at how the business has changed and different aspects that have shaped the business to where...
Back to school – the ABCs of the leap day
happy leap day There’s an extra day to play with this year as 2024 is a leap year. So we will have the pleasure of the 29th February for the first time again in four years. (Not sure I was that pleased to have an extra day in the last leap year of 2020 though!)...
Top Autumn 2024 colours from Pantone®
Crazy weather I'm beginning to think that the warmer weather of last week was 'false spring' and led me in to a false sense of warmer months being imminent. Because this week, we are back to the erratic weather including rain, floods, high winds and even more frosty...
Celebrating 10 years of Hanami Dream
where it all started This year marks 10 years since Hanami Dream was founded and it has evolved quite a bit since those first few tentative steps in to working for myself. For starters, the logo looked a bit busier and more floral back then, plus the focus of Hanami...
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