Get ready for the year ahead with our guide to the latest styles — based on billions of image, video, and music searches and downloads from Shutterstock customers. Bright colors, cartoon faces, and ostentatious animal patterns show a vibrant undercurrent in this year’s trends. It’s a treasure trove of distractions, playful reflections of our own audacious individualism. Echoes of past trends – leopard print, gold scroll frames, neon signs – remind us just how loud and lively design can be.