Even More Pantone... Goodness?

Okay, Pantone. What will you brand next?

If you love color and admire Pantone tools-of-the-trade, you can now take your pick of mugs and dishes, cufflinks, eyeglasses, furnishings { a fabulous stool and a just-okay chair }, flash drives, messenger bags, and desk accessories. And Pantone cashmere. Partnering with Fendi, Pantone will even be offering a limited edition of high-style petite purses fills with pens. 

TOP, messenger bags available in a handful of PMS colors; BOTTOM, 10th anniversary canvas Fendi Baguette bag filled with Pantone markers

Cufflinks and keychains from Sonia Spencer

Cashmere? Whateves. Uniqlo teams with Pantone 

Okay, this Pantone-branded product { cool colored specs! } makes sense for all of us designers half-blind from staring at our computer monitors! 

LEFT, Pantone dishes available at Fishes Eddy; RIGHT, mugs in 2008 Pantone colors

TOP, flash drives in your fave Pantone colors; BOTTOM, notebooks in an array of PMS colors

The Real Photoshop

If you love Photoshop, you’ve gotta love the real version featured in an ad by Bates141* for an Indonesian software distributor of Adobe products. The copy reads “As Real As It Gets.”  Brilliant. And fun!

TOP, ad; BOTTOM, 3 enlargements of various Photoshop tool palettes


*Agency : Bates141 Jakarta
Creative director : Hendra Lesmono
Art director : Andreas Junus & Irawandhani Kamarga
Copywriter : Darrick Subrata
Account executive : Nitya Priyahita
Photgrapher : Anton Ismael 

Via BuzzFeed; image source, Flickr

Dreaming of logos

When I work on a logo project, I often dream about that imagery. Silly swirling shapes and lines. Occasionally, my dreams have yielded the solution to a design problem. I sure wish that would happen more often! 

{ Image from Nick Ross’ website }

“Corporate Logo Pillow” by designer Nick Ross

Wonderful Workspace

I love a well-organized office and clean desk. However, when my eyeballs are glued to my monitor and I'm deep into a project, everything piles up around me. So, now as I look around at stacks of job jackets, papers, books, I'll dream of a beautifully clean office. Here are a few visual aids.

Above, Studiolse

LEFT + RIGHT TOP, Domino; LEFT BOTTOM, Christopher Maya, Inc.; RIGHT BOTTOM, Living Etc.

And for office supplies, my favorite online source is See Jane Work. Go to the website and you'll have such fun picking out beautiful necessities for your workspace. Holly at decor8 obtained a 25% discount through November 21st for SeeJaneWork shoppers. Visit her site to learn the checkout code and take advantage of the discount.

See Jane Work

Front Page Souvenirs

Who says newsprint is dead? With the historic victory of President-elect Barack Obama, everyone wants a souvenir. I've downloaded several to save for my future grandchildren. Download your commemorative copy { high-resolution image } of today's Washington Post here.

 

Today's New York Times used 96 point type for the 4th time in its history

Line outside the New York Times building on 40th Street of people waiting for a souvenir newspaper — via Gawker