The shop, right now
From the DPCDigitals storefront. That review count at a flat 5.0 is rare at any size.
This week's ideas
Six directions pulled from what's trending, each with a palette and a place to start. The full set of eighteen themes lives in the Theme Library tab, and the colors coming next are in Forecast.
Theme Library
Eighteen named theme sets, each with a working title, alternate names, a palette, motifs, timing, and the trend evidence behind it. Names are starting points to make your own.
Launch now: autumn
Two thirds of the top fall sellers on Etsy have their fall lines live by August 15, and Halloween traffic starts surging in September.
Design next: winter
All four winter themes below have retail evidence this cycle, and none of them are moody. Pastel holiday is having a real moment.
Year-round trend themes
Nine themes riding named 2026 trends, usable any month and strongest when matched to their moment.
The colors coming next
What the professional forecasters have published for 2027, filtered to what suits joyful and pastel work. Hex values are close approximations; the forecasters publish named swatches, not web colors.
Rising into 2027
The forecast pattern is good news for this brand: joy, play, and visibly human-made work are the directions gaining ground.
The Pinterest Predicts scoreboard
Pinterest says about 80% of its predicted trends come true within the year. Here's the joyful subset of the 2026 list with their search numbers, and how each is doing at mid-year.
What's fading
Directions the forecasters say are on the way out, so design hours don't go there.
The season runway
From now through the new year, with enough lead time to make things calmly.
When fresh forecasts drop
The next intel deliveries, so this page always has something new coming.
Social Studio
What's working on each platform right now, with post ideas built from art and communities DPC already has.
Market Watch
What other shops and platforms are trying right now. Observations, not homework.
Shifts worth knowing about
Four changes in the wider market this year, and what each one means for a hand-drawing artist.
Made by fans, found in the wild
People out there are filming, blogging, and recommending DPC on their own time.
What planner people are asking for
Real threads from the digital planning communities, each with a note on why it matters for a designer.