The Pantone Hotel Opens in Brussels

The Pantone Hotel, each room decorated in one of seven color palettes, even offers color consultants for color psychology and trends.

Located on the Place Loix in Brussels, the themes available for the 59 rooms are "earthy, rich," "daring, fiery," "vibrant, intense," "cheerful, warm," "captivating, esteemed, silky," "fresh, eager" and "tranquil, aquatic, exhilarating."

Each room featuring artwork, photos and accessories in the chosen mood.

Rooms seem to be pretty affordable, with deal sites listing them at well under €100 ($120) a night.

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The Dot Grid Book

The Dot Grid Book was designed by the Behance team in response to requests from graphic designers.The Dot Grid was developed as an alternative to traditional lines and boxes. The light geometric dot matrix serves as a subtle guide for your notations and sketches.

The Dot Grid Book's cover is a unique suede-to-the-touch hard cover. The pages are made of 80lb Premium Blend paper with a subtle texture (30% post-consumer recycled), double perforated, and three-hole punched between both perforations for maximum flexibility.

Check it out here.

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Christmas By Color

Last year, Raw Design created the Christmas by Colour project that ask a host of designers and image makers to submit a Pantone reference to a colour they felt summed up the festive season. This year, they have take it step further by producing the most popular Christmas colours into Pantone style Christmas card.

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Clients From Hell

Clients From Hell is a collection of anonymously contributed client horror stories from designers.

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Design Mugs

Cool gift for designers. By Build and Design Museum Shop.

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Creative Block

Creative Block is magic 8 ball for designers when're they're out of ideas or need some guidance! Fun!

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Typodarium 2010

A tear-off calendar with 365 different fonts by 180 foundries and designers

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Pantone In The Kitchen

Pantone items keep popping out everywhere! Now there's even a whole set for the kitchen including salt and pepper grinders, aprons, oven mitts, placemats etc.

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More Pins For Designers

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Pantone iPhone App

Oh man!!! Whats next?!!! There's a new Pantone iPhone app called myPantone!

Using the app, you can extract colors from photos and match them to the closest Pantone Color, or even save color palettes for later comparison and share them later on. You also have the following libraries for reference.

-PANTONE MATCHING SYSTEM® (coated, uncoated and matte)
-PANTONE Goe™ (coated and uncoated)
-PANTONE Pastels (coated and uncoated)
-PANTONE FASHION + HOME (paper and cotton)
-Includes sRGB, HTML and L*a*b* for all colors

Awesome but scary!
Get it here for only $10!!!

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Typography Wallpapers for Designers

Many of you will absolutely love these. The above are just a few of them. Available for free download here.


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Awesome Lebanese Shirts

I just found out about this today. Luanatic was recently formed when a bunch of talented Lebanese designers/artist came together for what they call a "creative workshop" that focuses on experimental art. Not only do they offer all kinds of graphic design services but they also sell their own products including: tshirts, gadgets, accessories, all kinds of customized items, candles, wallpapers, greetings etc. You can find them in Monot. Not sure where exactly, but Ill definitley be heading down there soon enough. In their shop/studio, you can also enjoy some coffee, freshly baked cupcakes and nice music. Also, check out their website, its really nice, although most of it is still under construction. Im really impressed. Kudos! No but seriously, arent the shirts just awesome?!!!