all things pretty: Perfect Pantone

I am tickled pink about the Pantone color system and the way it's inspired everything from fashion, decor, art projects to a fabulous hotel of it's own.

So what is Pantone ... ?

The Pantone solid color system, with over 1100 unique, numbered colors, was originally devised to help printers and designers specify and control colors for print projects. This is the most widely used Pantone palette, with colors sometimes referred to as 'PMS' (for Pantone Matching System) or 'spot colors', and is used in the graphics, print, and publishing, industries.

Pretty Pantone Paraphernalia

Credits:

Visa credit card - lorrainepress.blogspot.com

PANTONE folding chairs - howaboutorange.blogspot.comCoffee mugs - blog.pixellogo.com

Tooth brushes - http://www.inhabits.net/

Credits:

Pink note book - http://www.artfire.com/

Tria system Pantone - http://www.kaboodle.com/

Magnets - blog.craftzine.com

Yellow magazine stand - http://www.houzz.com/

Duck egg blue mug - decodollop.blogspot.com

Spray cans - http://www.lovelypackage.com/

Pantone weddings

Credits:

joiedevieblog.com

www.dessy.com/PANTONE/

Credits: http://www.kateryanlinens.com/

Art projects

Basheer rainbow campus

Basheer graphic bookstore would like to promote Pantone color guide book to art college students and faculty, and to convince them that Pantone has the most color selection for their printing guidance so they gave the job to Bates 141 Jakarta.

Advertising Agency: Bates 141, Jakarta, Indonesia
Executive Creative Director: Hendra Lesmono
Art Director: Andreas Junus, Irawandhani Kamarga
Copywriter: Iyan Susanto

Credits: http://www.ibelieveinadv.com/2009/08/basheer-graphic-book-rainbow-by-pantone/

Pantone diet and public art project

Tan, a Malaysian-born artist living in New York, is interested in using art to address social issues, and for this project, called “Nature Matching” (The Pantone Diet was my name… I just love anything Pantone so I thought it was catchy), he created a color-coding system to visually show people the colors they should be eating everyday. He put the Pantone squares together in murals that are being hung publicly in places with high volumes of walking traffic.

Credits: http://thewonderlustjournal.com/the-pantone-diet-and-public-art-project/

co2 Pantone swatch

Credit: http://singulus.tumblr.com/post/224126094/art-directions-pantone-co2-our-thanks-to

The PANTONE HOTEL^TM

Travel to a colorific world

The PANTONE HOTEL^TM invites you to experience the city of Brussels through a lens of color and a spectrum of comforts. From the moment you arrive, our “hotel of colors” will awaken your senses to an array of delights and playful surprises.

Impeccably designed by Michel Penneman and Oliver Hannaert, The PANTONE HOTEL^TM, Brussels showcases the color of emotion with a distinctive hue on each colorous guest floor. From vivid to subdued, for business or leisure, our unique boutique hotel perfectly suits your savvy palette and colorful imagination.

From a design perspective, The PANTONE HOTEL^TM, Brussels is built on an exceptional use of contrast; a white canvas provides clean space for saturated colors to pop. Guest rooms feature unique photography by esteemed Belgian photographer Victor Levy.

Welcome to the centre of the color universe.

http://www.pantonehotel.com/

Credit: http://www.pantonehotel.com/

Pantone on the runway

Credit: http://www.dreamdesignsflorist.com/

Credit: http://www.mojansami.com/

Taking the GAP

Gap and Pantone recently partnered up on a limited edition line of vibrantly colored tees in some of spring's hottest hues. "We wanted to create an explosion of color and bring some warmth and optimism to our customers," explains Patrick Robinson, executive vice president of design for Gap Adult and gapbody, about the rotating Gap and Pantone T-Shop which is currently located at the NYC flagship (5th Avenue at 54th Street) through Sunday, February 8th and features a full palette of Gap tees from the spring collection, including one in Mimosa (PANTONE 14-0848), a warm yellow that is Pantone's color of the year for 2009. "Mixing Pantone's vibrant colors with Gap's signature t-shirts gives everyone an opportunity to find the perfect tee they can mix and match for their own personal style."