Image of the Day: Pantone Purple-M Marker

Purchased over thirty years ago for an assignment at the Art Institute of Pittsburgh, this marker is still going strong!

Pantone: On Sale and Knocked Off

Pantone iPhone covers on sale in NYC . . . 

and the knockoff ‘RickyColor’ Pantone-inspired design.

Pantone® Vanity Plate

Emilie de Griottes’ Pantone Tarts

Pointed out via a raven
“French food designer Emilie de Griottes for a special feature in french culinary magazine Fricote developed dessert tarts that recreate Pantone color swatches. Berries, carrots, lemon, candies, and other foods are arranged upon a tart base, whose bottom is iced in white and marked with the Pantone color represented…’
See more of her Pantone Tart creations here.

Farnsworth Munsell 100 Hue Test

via Pantone
Trivia: One in two hundred women suffer from some form of color vision deficiency, for men, it’s one in twelve. The Farnsworth Munsell 100 Hue Test consists of four trays containing a total of 85 removable color reference caps (incremental hue variation) spanning the visible spectrum.
Learn more about it here; I think it would be interesting taking this test!

Pantone Holiday Ornaments

Pantone holiday ornaments made by Studio Badini Createam; does it get any better than this?

When Colors Clash

sent to me by a friend, not sure of the original source


Perfect graphic design humor on a Friday afternoon!

Pantone 100 Postcards

via Pippa's Cabinet
“Legendary color authority PANTONE and Bridget Watson Payne have teamed up to create this box of 100 postcards. Every card is a different brilliant PANTONE color. And the postcard box is also being published in Spanish, French, and German…”
Read the rest here.

Pantone VISA®

Unbelievable.

Image of the Day: Pantone Flash Drive

A gift from X-Rite after filling out an online survey.
Squee!

Pantone Metal Storage Boxes

via creativepro
“Each 4"×12"×9" box costs $19.99. In addition to Macaw Green 377 to the right, there’s Pastel Lavender 672, Royal Purple 268, Ruby Red 186, Mimosa 14-0848, Turquoise 15-5519, Vitamin C 165, Cool Gray 10, Surf 286, and Honeysuckle 18-2120.”
See more about them here.

Tattly: Temporary tattoo store

This one makes me smile — 5K1 N !!!

via swissmiss
“Tattly, temporary tattoo store for design-minded kids and kids-at-heart, is the brainchild of swissmiss and all of the tattoo designs are created by all-star designers…”
Read more about the designs here and visit Tattly here.

Image of the Day: 8783 C

Pantone Graduate Procession

spotted by my son on neatorama
“…Graphic Design Majors of the CalPoly Pomona graduating class of 2011, who received their diplomas last night, decorated their mortarboards with an oversized Pantone chip.”
See another image here.

Pantone desktop wallpapers

via how about orange
Download PANTONE iPhone, iPad, and desktop wallpapers in your choice of six hues, here.

Inking Ampersands

For my birthday, my son and daughter-in-law gave me some metal and wood letterpress ampersands to add to my collection.  A few weeks later the head pressman at work [Ron] was cleaning out the area where we store leftover ink used on past printings.  I asked if I could have one of the containers in order to ink up my collection, and Ron’s eyes lit up when he saw the ampersands.

A little ink goes a long way. You can see some of the test prints I made of each individual ampersand.

I arranged the ampersands in a ‘cloud’ for printing, inked them up, then used a brayer  to get smooth impression.

Holding the group as I inked up.

Pantone 659; a pretty sweet color.

Reno Dakota & Pantone 292

via a capital idea

“. . . A friend has recently rediscovered the Magnetic Fields, a favorite band of mine. We had a fun discussion of the song Reno Dakota, which includes the lyrics:

Reno Dakota there’s not an iota
Of kindness in you
You know you enthrall me
And yet you don’t call me
It’s making me blue
Pantone 292

Listen to it here.

Pantone Cookies

These were part of a birthday celebration; original link here.

And even more Pantone chip cookies can be found here. Designer Kim Neill took client gifts a step further this year after stumbling upon Pantone Chip Tins. In case you’re wondering which cookies went first (we know we were), Kim reports that PMS 485, PMS 183 and Silver 877 seemed to disappear first. Visit’s Kim’s blog to view the recipe.