As part of my curriculum at NID, Ahmedabad, was to come up with appealing design directions for skins for Whirlpool’s range of Home Appliances.I considered four trends important as well as interesting and took these ahead for conceptualizing various moods. These were Getting Back to Our Roots, Juxtapositioning; Old is Gold and Minimalism. And finally considered translating these trends into color, material and finishes. The four different color palettes belong to four moods and are an