vogue UK followed ‘liz’ for a year, as she worked her way through a pantone book
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pantone covers
admittedly, name-checking bands or famous album art is a fairly obvious/easy way to get social media attention, but i do like these pantone ‘colour picker’ album covers from david marsh
chromatweet
…no white (FFFFFF) or black (000000)
the title of every post is the hexadecimal code of the color…
chromatweet: an ongoing nano-blogging project where each post consists of a single color tone, the daily moods, feelings, and experiences are compressed into one piece of information: color.
cheque check
i came across a wonderful piece of fancy interactive print dating back to 1968 this week: a multilayered how it works guide that employs, fold-outs, tracing paper overlays and typical sixties icons to explain the mysterious (and now defunct) bank cheque, the bank itself is of course also now defunct…
this particular piece (design uncredited) brings to mind two other classic pieces of print: firstly in terms of style the original versions of marshall mcluhans’ seminal books and secondly, in terms of content and approach, piet zwarts’ often quoted het boek van ptt
the whole past print blog is worth a look by the way, plenty of ‘offline’ nostalgia for those in need…
8 bit
google maps but then ‘8 bit’