For the fashionista geeks out there, Pantone has released its Colour of the Year for 2012. It's going to be Tangerine Tango, "a spirited reddish orange, [which] continues to provide the energy boost we need to recharge and move forward". In Pantone's Color System, it's 17-1463. “Sophisticated but at the same time dramatic and seductive, Tangerine Tango is an orange with
PANTONE The 20th Century in Color looks to me like a great Christmas gift for anyone interested in colour and history: graphic designers, interior decorators, costume designers, website builders, Renaissance geeks. Authored by Leatrice Eiseman and Keith Recker and published last month, it's a view of the last century with a focus on colour. Of course, it inserts the relevant Pantone
Glasgow-based artist Derek Bowers was commissioned by Pantone to create a 2011 calendar and he's designed this most excellent circular calendar based on the colour wheel, using images from all round the world. In his words, "My brief was to create a calendar for Pantone, the world-renowned authority on colour. The main aim for me was to make this calendar