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Love colors? Then staying at a boring ol' hotel simply won't do! Thank goodness Pantone came to the rescue!
Behold, the Pantone Hotel, a seven-story, 59-room hotel in Brussels by architect Olivier Hannaert and interior designer Michel Penneman. The colorful hotel utilizes a lot of colors from those color chips designers love so much.
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One more degree of difficulty, and this picture might have been a candidate for the What Is It? game. It’s a graduating class that really called for an overhead shot.
They are the Graphic Design Majors of the CalPoly Pomona graduating class of 2011, who received their diplomas last night. Each decorated their mortarboards with an oversized Pantone chip! Congratulations to all. -Thanks, Professor Ray Kampf!
(Image credit: Robby Cavanaugh)
Pantone, the company which business is to know everything there is to know about colors, has just unveiled Color of the Year for 2010 (drumroll, please): turquoise!
"Turquoise is universally appealing. It puts everyone in the same state of mind — on vacation," says Jane Schoenborn, design director at Lilly Pulitzer. "Turquoise for us is a really big color. A lot of times it’s transporting, whether you’re actually going to a resort destination or not."
Leatrice Eiseman, executive director of the Pantone Color Institute, says there was no runner-up to turquoise in her mind because people crave escapism and freshness after a tough year. The shade is on the cusp of blue and green, which makes it both inviting and serene — characteristics associated with blues — and invigorating and luminous, which comes from green, she says.
"Transporting" was a word many used for turquoise, a shade that takes designer Tommy Hilfiger to the beach, especially the Caribbean, St. Tropez, France, or Southern California, which served as the inspiration for his newest collection. In jewelry, he thinks of the American Southwest, or Central or South America.
Well, that’s better than the Color of the Year 2009, which was Mimosa Yellow: Link | Official Pantone web page about the announcement
Expo TV has a video interview with Lee Eisman, the Director of the
Pantone Color Institute. In the video, Eisman discusses how Pantone
chooses its colors and predicts color trends.
You may or may
not be surprised by the amount of research that goes into selecting new
colors and keeping existing colors fresh – factors ranging from
economic conditions, world affairs, clothing featured in the
entertainment industry, home décor trends and art trends play into the
decision making process.
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