Pantone Color Chip Cookies!

Freelance designer and illustrator Kim Neill made these pantone cookies using colored icing and used an edible marker to indicate the PMS colors.

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Pantone's 2011 Color Of The Year

With PANTONE’s announcement of last year’s color of the year for 2010 — 15-5519 Turquoise — every magazine, blog and website was littered with turquoise, blue-green, teal and any shade bearing the slightest resemblance to turquoise.

PANTONE continues its fashion and home decor domination by declaring 2011′s color…

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Energizing Honeysuckle lifts spirits and imparts confidence to meet life’s ongoing challenges.


A Color for All Seasons. Courageous. Confident. Vital. A brave new color, for a brave new world. Let the bold spirit of Honeysuckle infuse you, lift you and carry you through the year. It’s a color for every day — with nothing “everyday” about it.

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Pantone Visa Cards

Show off your favorite PANTONE color, while simultaneously racking up spurious debt with these colorful credit cards, currently available in colors from the Spring 2011 fashion color report.

Check it out.

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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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Pantone Inspired Chocolate Packaging

Abanico Chocolat is a French chocolate brand with unique packaging that (as a designer) reminds me a lot of a Pantone swatch guide. It's a pretty effective way to showcase slim ganache-filled pralines with their descriptive information in an organized way.

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Pantone Storage Tins

Organize the mess of papers, bills, photos, concert tickets, and matchbooks that populate your desk with this set of sleek and colorful Pantone Storage Tins.

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iPhone Cases By Pantone

Pantone is offering iPhone and iPod Touch user their unique Pantone color cases, available in 8 hot Pantone Colors with free personalization either with 2 lines of text and/or a logo. At only $19.99, this would make a great gift this Christmas season, for your designer-creative friends.

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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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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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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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Pantone Rainbow

To celebrate the iconic Pantone color chips, the Basheer Graphic Book agency has built a Pantone Rainbow spanning 8 meters and made of 5,000 colors.

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I Heart Pantone

For you non-designers out there, Pantone is a trademark. Its a system for matching colors, used in specifying printing inks: Pantone colors.
As for you designers, wouldnd't you just love to have the whole collection?!

Actually, I was recently in Milan, wondering if I should my colleagues at work the typical "milanese panettone", but I thought it would just be a hassle for me to carry and manage in the plane. Its quite big. If I had seen those however (last picture), I wouldn't have hesitated a bit!