Pantone Hard-Sided Luggage To Go With The Pantone Luggage Tags. What A Trip.

News has broken that Pantone Universe has designed a series of hard-sided luggage, the latest in a long, long list of Pantone-inspired products (I have over 20 posts on Pantone and Pantone-inspired products, just use the search box at the top of the blog or the one in the side bar and type in Pantone).






No word yet on when or where the suitcases will be available and exactly which styles, but like all Pantone Inspired products, I'll be sure to keep you posted!

Pantone Universe presently has two types of luggage tags that would go nicely with these hard-sided Pantone travel bags:

The two types of Pantone Luggage tags shown above are presently available here and here

Thanks to Taxi for bringing these to my attention.

Pantone Angry Birds by Felipe Marcus

above composite by if it's hip, it's here

Brazil based illustrator and graphic designer Felipe Marcus had some fun matching Angry Birds characters to Pantone colors in this graphic art project.






via DesignTaxi via Thaeger

Easter Eggs Designers Will Dye For.

There are an incredible amount of beautifully created and designed Easter Eggs out there. Nowadays people use everything from temporary tattoo papers, glitter, metallic paints and rub down letters to create eggciting ones. Several even use fabrics, etching, cut-out paper and appliques.

However, here are a few beauties that still use the good ol' dye you can make on your own.

If you've got the patience, you can make the fabulous Pantone dyed Easter Eggs shown at the beginning of this post that Jessica Jones of How About Orange created for 2012.


An homage to CMYK printing, Martha Stewart shows you how to make the beautiful three dot eggs shown above here.

Below are more stunning egg designs with links to tutorials from Martha Stewart:

above: learn how to make the scrambled lines and letter eggs here

above: learn how to make these lovely botanical silhouette dyed eggs here

above: learn how to make the square patterned eggs here

above: learn how to make the leaf and stenciled eggs here

above: learn how to make the stenciled eggs here

And for those of you who don't want to get your hands dirty, you can digitally create Easter eggs with this free Easter Egg Design app for the iPhone

And don't forget about the EggBot!


• Be sure to check out these 30 inspiring Easter Egg designs at Inspiration Feed

An Official Pantone Barbie! That's Right. Mattel's New Pink in Pantone Barbie Doll.

Barbie is in the Pink. Pantone Pink 219C, to be exact. Mattel and Pantone have just released the new doll, designed by Linda Kyaw, for pre-order. The destined-to-be-a-designer's-favorite doll, with a retail price of $52.99, will ship in January 2012.

PINK IN PANTONE® BARBIE® Doll:
Barbie is all about pink, particularly PMS 219, her signature color -which, believe it or not, is actually owned by Mattel .



Barbie is clad in a pink, fitted “leather” bodice, with two straps and a flower accent made of Pantone color chips:



The glamorous dress celebrates the Mattel Barbie Pink fashion heritage with a long full skirt made of Pantone color chips in PMS 219C:


And the ensemble is topped off with white shoes, complete with pink soles and PMS 219C written on them (for those who are not familiar with Pantone matching system of inks, the "C" stands for 'coated'):


Silvery and black bangles and “silver” hoop earrings complete the look. Pink has never looked so pretty. Doll cannot stand alone. For the adult collector.


Pre-Order your Barbie® Pink in Pantone Doll here

Ah, the Sweet Smell of Design. Pantone Candles. Pantone Toothbrushes, Too!

Ah, so that's what PMS 15-5217 smells like.
Pantone Universe (the company behind the Pantone Matching System of colored inks) just keeps pumping out the products - this is actually my thirteenth post on Pantone-related products.

The latest Pantone-branded item for the home from the color inks standard are scented Pantone candles in three sizes and 10 PMS colors. Apparently the candles are created by Belgium-based Ilanga for Pantone and like many of the their products for the home, they do not seem to be available in the US, at least not yet.











Although there is a dedicated website, it is not up and running, but you can purchase some of the candles at Vinçon (only Honeysuckle and twilight) and at Colette (where they carry 7 of them in two sizes).

Pantone Toothbrushes & Pantone Contact Lens Cases

In addition to the candles, other new offerings from the Pantone Universe are Pantone Toothbrushes in a set of five and Pantone Contact Lens cases.


buy the set of 5 here.

Pantone Contact Lens cases

buy them here.

Pantone Universe