Inspiration & Information
Dedicated to all things colourful.
Optical Ripple is the latest print from artist and designer Simon C. Page who often explores complex geometric patterns as well as the interplay of colour. This latest piece involves a kaleidoscopic array of colours and concentric circles that borders on the edge of a blurry optical illusion.
Found via thisiscolossal.com
Melbourne based micro design manufacture that explores 3d printing technologies to produce the most delightful creations for you to adore and for others to covet.
More colours and info at labattoir-plastique.com
Mixing Pantone’s indexed colour chips with famous song titles by Chic & Arctistic
(via jaymug)
A new iPhone app by Nicholas Eby pulls colours from a specified URL or picture and creates a swatch book that you can pick out the swatches you like and export / email them as html or .ase files for use in your designs.
Get the app - eyedrop.me
EyeDrop uses the Swatch discovery API, from the brilliant colorfyit.com
Human eyes typically have three types of color receptor on their retinas, each sensitive to a different range of wavelengths of light. The colors associated with these wavelengths are approximately red, green, and blue. Because there are three types of color receptor, it is possible to map the visible spectrum in a three-dimensional spatial model by assigning red, green, and blue each to a dimension.
It is then possible to outline a cube in this space, where the values of red (R), green (G), and blue (B) are visible on a gradient scale of 0 to 100% in their respective directions. These gradients combine to create the RGB color space cube, a volume in which any color can be located by a set of three coordinates.
Via: jeanniejeannie.com
Further to the previous post, on matching skin to pantone references. Pantone have announced an offical guide
The PANTONE SkinTone Guide was created by scientifically measuring thousands of actual skin tones across the full spectrum of human skin types. Specially formulated to be the closest physical representations of skin colors, the library is a comprehensive visual reference of human skin tones for use in any market where skin colors are relevant. It’s the only internationally available color standard to accurately match skin tones.
See more - pantone.com
Humanae is a chromatic inventory, a project that reflects on the colors beyond the borders of our codes by referencing the PANTONE® color scheme.
The project development is based on a series of portraits whose background is dyed with the exact Pantone® tone extracted from a sample of 11x11 pixels of the portrayed’s face. The project’s objective is to record and catalog all possible human skin tones.
See more - humanae.tumblr.com
Each card is printed on 380mic (roughly 290gsm) card. Accompanying white envelopes supplied with cards. Set includes the following cards:
CMYK Thanks card
CMYK Dots card
CMYK Spectrum card
CMYK Circles card
Size: A6 when folded (105 x 148mm or 4.1 x 5.8in)
Each card is blank inside
Available to buy from: printhandbook
