A Temporary Tattoo Inspired by Pantone Chips!

In contrast to my earlier post today about permanent inking here's a much more light-hearted temporary option. As part of the Designy Temporary Tattoos from Tattly, graphic designer Josh Smith created an ode to Pantone color chips by creating a temp tatt inspired by their color chips.







The transparent rubdown is named TATTONE and uses the numbers and letters "5k1n" spell out skin:











Each sheet comes with 2 chip-sized Tattones and a deluxe-sized Tattone for when you need to send a stronger message. $5

Buy it here



To see the full collection of Designy Temporary tattoos, visit Tattly here.

Pantone Inspired Christmas Posters & Cards. Christmas By Colour.

Last year Raw Design Studio of Greater Manchester created a very fun project that utilized consumer opinion, content and creativity to bring Christmas By Colour to life.



A collaborative project that explored the colours (or colors, as we spell it in the U.S.) that people personally associate with Christmas --other than the traditional red, green and white. The project resulted in Christmas By Colour, Pantone®-inspired Christmas Colours which they turned into a poster and sold to benefit a charity. This year they've created another poster as well as greeting cards.



To create Christmas By Colour, Raw reached out to the online community and asked people to submit their best "Christmas" colors and assign a related name to each.



Thousands of people from around the world embraced the project and relished the opportunity to suggest their own colour and its personal meaning. Raw then handpicked the best to go on their nice list and be featured on their popular Pantone-inspired A1 poster, wrapping paper and cards whose proceeds were donated to C.A.L.M - a charity aimed at helping young men deal with depression.

Submitted were several very clever (and some not so clever) names and colors. Here are the selection for the "Nice List" and in turn, are the ones printed on this years' poster:

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The resulting products:

"Hue, hue, hue…" A set of twelve Christmas cards based on colours submitted to their Christmas by Colour project. The cards are split into two packs with six in each pack, printed 4-colour litho on Trucard and measure 165mm x 117mm. They are blank inside and white envelopes are included.

The set includes the following designs:

Pack one:

Quality Street (Guy Moorhouse)
Sprouts (John Dowling)
Yellow snow (Nick Greenwood)
Mulled wine (Tash Willcocks)
End of the Sellotape (Pete Clarke)
Park Lane & Mayfair (Jez Burrows)

Pack two:

Bank balance (Tom Heaton)
Granny's whiskers (Jordan Nelson)
After Eights (Shane Phillips)
Bucks Fizz (Gil Cocker)
Pigs in blankets (Sean Rees)
Walking in the Air (Kelly Mackenzie)

buy them here


"So this is Christmas..." Limited edition poster and a free sheet of wrapping paper:



Printed on 135gsm Naturalis Absolute white thanks to those fantastic people at GFSmith. Limited edition of 500 includes a free A2 sheet of CBC wrapping paper! The chosen colors were also turned into stickers for the poster tubes:



buy the poster here

Raw Design Studio
The Engine House
Islington Mill Studios
James Street
Salford, Greater Manchester
M3 5HW

Passionate about Pantone? Then, boy do I have posts for you:

Pantone Dinnerware and More.

It's A Pantone Party! More Pantone Products

The Pantone Party Continues With More New Products

Pantone Continues Their Colorful Collaborations

Pantone A Plenty... AGAIN! Now For The Kitchen

More Pantone Products! Folding Chairs, Storage Boxes ...

Three Pantone Bikes - Color Me 364C With Envy

More Pantone Products! Folding Chairs, Storage Boxes, Friendship Bracelets...

The parade of Pantone® related and inspired products continues.
This is my fifth post on items that take their cue from the universal Pantone Matching System (known as PMS colors). The latest items include metal storage boxes and folding chairs.

Designed by Selab for Seletti, the aluminum folding chairs have padded seats and come in 672 C pastel pink, 186 C ruby red, 377 C macaw green, 14-0848 mimosa, 268 C royal purple and Cool Gray.





Pantone Metal Boxes



Learn more and where to purchase here.

Pantone Friendship Bracelets

Pantone also collaborated with Links of London to make Pantone friendship bracelets:



buy them here


And a few unusual Pantone inspired projects for you.

Pantone Printed Leather Chair

above image courtesy of hotelworldasia

This digitally printed leather chair by Sif Technology has a Pantone color spectrum as the pattern. Exhibited at NeoCon '09, the chair is not production (too bad!) but it was an example of their printing on leather capabilities.



above chair images courtesy of Home Workshop and 3 Rings

The Pantone Rainbow

And check out the Pantone rainbow made by artist Christopher Bevans here


Pantone®Cans:


And here's a last minute addition, graffiti artist Nico189 has created a personal project in which he took cans of spray paint and turned them into Pantone Cans. Unfortunately, they are not available for purchase:




To see tons more Pantone products, like eyeglasses, rugs, mugs and more, go here.

And there are more here.

Pantone products for the kitchen like aprons, hot pads and peppermills here.

And the Gap Pantone Pop Up Shop here.


Big Update: MUST SEE PANTONE Bikes!!!