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A Wunderkammer of Color, May edition
by Jude Stewart
This month, we've got a packed cabinet of color finds, thanks to Josh Rutner, saxophonist for The Respect Sextet and one of the most avid color fans alive. Here's a roundup of some of our favorite color finds....
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Introducing Pantone Plus
by Jude Stewart
If you’ve been waiting for an excuse to upgrade that faded, shredded Pantone chipbook, here it is: Pantone has released its new Pantone Plus System, the company’s most comprehensive upgrade to the Pantone Matching System in a decade....
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Flaming Pink: The Hot New Color
by Jude Stewart
Every once in a while, an unbelievably specific color gains momentum in current graphic design trends. Even more rarely, that color reveals itself to be incredibly versatile. Case in point: the new hot color, a flaming orange-pink....
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Katrin Schacke
by Jude Stewart
Katrin Schacke's work arises via unusual means: She designs by stacking. Her 2008 thesis project at the Hochschule fuer Gestaltung in Offenbach, Germany, was called "Stanley: The Open Question Magazine." The project visually represents the seven biggest questions in science, using things like white lamps, umbrellas, rubber boots, and an enigmatic sphere reminiscent of Albrecht Duerer's Melancolia I....
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That Gorgeous Plum (and Yellow and Mint)
by Jude Stewart
I get positively giddy when I see a color re-emerge from deep hibernation. As I flipped through Neuland, a new book of German design, I rediscovered all the fine shades of purple, golden yellow and minty-green....
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Pantone, Merchants of Color
by Jude Stewart
Pantone may not be a household name on par with Crayola or Kraft, but that’s exactly the point: Its branded products invite you into design’s inside-baseball syntax, a badge of the buyer’s basic design knowledge....
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The End of the Rainbow?
by Jude Stewart
Where does our hunger for a given color-combo come from? Can you X-ray our collective unconscious for the colors we crave at a given cultural moment—and hazard a theory as to why?...
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Rebranding Reax: Aol.
by Jude Stewart
A roundup of reactions to Wolff Olins's redesign of Aol. Because everyone seems to have a firmly held position on the matter....
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The Unsinkable Polaroid Film
by Jude Stewart
What is it about Polaroid that inspires such devotion? The answer lies in five contradictory, maddeningly engaging charms: the frame, time, expertise, secrecy, and soul....
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