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Pantone // Postcards // Design Geekery
The ever expanding range of Pantone products has now extended to postcards. AMAZING! Forget photos of whatever place you were on holiday (I’m jealous enough already), forget vintage photos with witty captions (seriously I’ve seen it before), this is ridiculously cool. Perfect for scribbling a little thank you for a gift, dinner or the like.
Actually that’s not a bad idea, grabbing a collection of beautiful postcards to send as thank you notes. We should do this kind of thing more.
Trouble is once I’ve bought this box I don’t know if I could part with them, and what colours do you send to what people. Is crimson appropriate way to thank your gran for that birthday present? Should I colour match the card to the hideous socks I’ve been given? Perhaps a brilliant orange will best describe the glorious sunset I just saw above the beach on holiday?
I dont really care, I just want to have this little box of loveliness at on my coffee table.
Pantone Postcards, really want u.u
(via ohjulianzerega)
Pantone iPhone 4 Cases
Imagine trying to define every colour in the world. You know that red you saw the other week that would be perfect. Now try describing it to someone thats never seen it. So it was kinda like a postbox, but a bit London bus like, but not as deep as a traffic light. It’s impossible!
Well in designland someone already has. Pantone references are excellent and mean even if you’re chatting to someone the fair side of the globe you know excatly what shade you are getting.
But knowing how geeky us design lot are those clever at Pantone are slowly creating a Pantone world. Boxes, chairs and more are all becoming sorted into the correct Pantone way. Large swatch of colour and then the reference.
Its almost too much for my design mind to handle! When I saw these in Paris I got ridiculously excited! The husband teased about which one I would buy, as though such a decision could be made on a whim! At €35 they arent the cheapest covers but they are quite simply design geek porn. I want them all! I’ll probably start with colour 226.They are brought to you by the Case Scenario a Monaco based company,and I have yet to find a UK supplier. I will though!
ps If any of you get them before I do, (and don’t gift one my direction) it may be the end of our friendship.
pps They are also available for iPads!
To most people outside of the creative world Pantone are probably totally alien. Think of them as the biggest Dulux colour guide in the world, but the amazing thing is the colour references are totally universal. That means you can give the reference to anyone and so long as they match it correctly you know exactly what you’re getting.
This is a life saver as there are infinite variations of every colour in the world, and if you told 20 people to pick the colour red, or lilac you’d probably get 20 different colours.
Great film and really interesting post from cool hunting!
