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Trends in Hindsight: 2009 Color of the Year

Kate Smith — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 11:08:48 +0000

Kiki’s post about yellow on our Color for Your Home got me thinking about Mimosa, the yellow color that Pantone named 2009 Color of the Year.

We are over two thirds of the way through the year and I was wondering if this color of the year embodies the year now that we know what 2009 is about.

The Gap in Pantone Colors

Kate Smith — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 18:38:50 +0000

Julie just posted about Gap and Pantone today announcing the opening of a color-filled t-shirt shop in Gap’s rotating concept venue adjacent to its flagship store at 54th and 5th Ave in NYC.

You can read the post on Live In Full Color.

Here’s a peak at the mens tees and Julie has posted lots of pictures. I’m going to

Pantone Color of the Year for 2009

Kate Smith — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 14:54:45 +0000

PANTONE® announced that they have chosen 14-0848 Mimosa as their color of the year for 2009. In the announcement the color is described as “a warm, engaging yellow.”

“The color yellow exemplifies the warmth and nurturing quality of the sun, properties we as humans are naturally drawn to for reassurance,” explains Leatrice Eiseman, executive director of the Pantone Color Institute^®. “Mimosa also speaks to enlightenment, as it is a hue that sparks imagination and innovation.”

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SeeVees in Vintage Colors Circa 1963

Kate Smith — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 03:42:53 +0000

I just received an invite to purchase the new SeeVees shoe designed as an exclusive collaboration with Pantone. I love the vintage colors and casual style.

Here’s some of the highlights of the invitation:

For the first time in their 45 year history, Pantone has allowed an external design team into their hallowed archives. SeaVees has selected seven vintage colors from the original Pantone color guide. The palette, chosen from the only authentic guide known to exist, epitomizes the cool, casual style of California in 1963.

Crossing Rubik with Pantone = Rubitone

Kate Smith — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 15:34:34 +0000

Industrial Designer Ignacio Pilotto is the creative mind behind this project. I think it is so clever and fun. I want one don’t you?

My thanks to the always creative John McCauley, Vice President and Creative Director of MacLaren Momentum in Toronto, Canada for sharing a link to Ignocia blog post on the Rubitone.

Stop by and see the rest of the pictures he has of the Rubitone…

With color it’s context, context, context!

Kate Smith — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 05:01:07 +0000

Leatrice Eiseman, executive director of Pantone, Inc. and a fellow member of CMG, is quoted in Home Textiles Today as saying during her Las Vegas Market presentation, “In real estate it’s all about location, location. In color it’s context, context.”

See Leatrice’s descriptions of the Pantone 2008 home furnishings forecast…

Pantone identifies seven 2009 color palettes

Kate Smith — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 05:03:11 +0000

Fashion color authority Pantone has published its Pantone View Colour Planner for summer 2009, a forecasting tool titled “Independence.”The planner details seven palettes for use in apparel, cosmetics, interiors, industrial design and graphics:

Female-ism: medium pastels with a tinge of retro glamour.
Classic-ism: almost devoid of color except for one medium blue accent.
Independent-ism: tart, bold and gregarious colors.
Today-ism: deep, dark shades of reddish blues and brown.
Absurd-ism: combines disproportionate color hues and values.
Fetish-ism: “a carnal inspiration and desire for experimentation.”
Surreal-ism: “plays with scale, combination and expectation to create unexpected, and even strange, creations.”

Tod Shulman, vice president of the fashion, home and interiors division at Pantone, said, “For summer 2009, Pantone is forecasting a trend toward color palettes that reflect individuality and make people feel good about who they are.”

My Color My Idea

Kate Smith — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 18:08:33 +0000

myColor myIdea is a site put together by Pantone, which features insights from visual thought leaders in a wide variety of design industries responding to the phrase, “The color of my idea is…”

Pantone’s “Color of the Year” for 2008

Kate Smith — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 03:54:31 +0000

UPDATE December 3, 2009: Pantone announces Mimosa as the 2009 Color of the Year. See more about this year’s color here and find even more on the sunny hue at Live In Full Color.

Pantone has selected its “Color of the Year” for 2008: Blue Iris Pantone 18-3943.

The company said the blue-purple blend combines “the stable and calming aspects of blue with the mystical and spiritual qualities of purple,” and suggested this hue “satisfies the need for reassurance in a complex world, while adding a hint of mystery and excitement.”

“Look for it artfully combined with deeper plums, red-browns, yellow-greens, grapes and grays,” said Leatrice Eiseman, executive director of the Pantone Color Institute. She said Blue Iris “best represents color direction in 2008 for fashion, cosmetics and home products.”

Eiseman added, “Emotionally, it is anchoring and meditative with a touch of magic.”

More on Pantone’s 2008 color of the year on Live In Full Color…

UPDATE for 2009:

Pantone releases Color of the Year 2009. See it here…

Julie also wrote about the Color of the Year — Mimosa — on Live In Full Color.

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Pantone Color Matched Maple Leaves

Kate Smith — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 17:30:20 +0000

Now here is beautiful example of Pantone color matching done by Chris Glass who has collected these leaves from a single maple tree at different times of the year.