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Let there be Colour, lots of it | Pantone Branding

PANTONE PLUS http://www.basedesign.com/#/project/310/node310 - Identity, packaging, and launch campaign for Pantone Plus, the successor to the Pantone Matching System. Photography and props by Maurice Scheltens & Liesbeth Abbens.

Rare behind-the-scenes look at Pantone and the development of the new PANTONE PLUS SERIES - http://kathykavan.posterous.com/so-thats-how-they-do-itpantone-colour-dev-vid

PRODUCTS 'Pantone brand creates a rainbow of new products' - http://www.cherryflava.com/cherryflava/2007/06/pantone-brand-creates-a-rainbo... also 'Pantone, Merchants of Color' - http://www.printmag.com/article/pantone-merchants-of-color

Excellent article by Momus called 'She comes in colours' - "In just nine months, Pantone has completely changed its meaning in Japan. Once a fistful of numbered swatch cards that pernickety designers would menace printers with, it's now become a trendy consumer buzzword in Japan, and, some might say, a byword for the newly-acceptable face of colour in a nation which dips in and out of chromophobia." http://imomus.livejournal.com/295636.html and Wiki here - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantone

FASHION Gap and Pantone – an interesting cobranding attempt, Gap Pantone concept store NYC - http://idology.wordpress.com/2009/01/13/gap-and-pantone-an-interesting-cobran...

Pantone T-Shirts by Uniqlo - http://www.swiss-miss.com/2007/11/pantone-t-shirt.html

Vintage SwissAir Posters

I love retro travel posters, will keep on adding as I find - also see my post on Pan-Am's collection here: http://kathykavan.posterous.com/pan-ams-flight-cool-a-vintage-brand-archive-p

Update: A friend just pointed out the North American image's portentous connection (5th image in) - oops...

Ref: http://www.internationalposter.com | http://www.posterteam.com/| http://everywheremag.com/ | http://www.gal-123.com/en/catalog.html?go=1&ar=0&top=48&c=1&kw=&cy=0&pr=&ref= | http://grainedit.com/tag/swissair/ | http://www.travelpostersonline.com/switzerland-travel-posters-36-c.asp | http://www.burningsettlerscabin.com/?tag=swissair | http://designersgotoheaven.com/post/734184491/siegfried-odermatt-swissair-198... | http://www.amazon.com/Georg-Gerster-Swissair-Posters/dp/3829602294/ref=sr_1_2...

Cool Vintage 1960's & 1970's Adverts

Part of this brilliant Vintage Advertising Collection Flickr collection by Gatochy http://www.flickr.com/photos/gatochy/collections/72157600080321303/

> 1960's - http://www.flickr.com/photos/gatochy/sets/72157594350839068  > 1970's - http://www.flickr.com/photos/gatochy/sets/72157594350861466/  > Vintage Advertising Pool - http://www.flickr.com/groups/vintage_advertising/pool/with/234280117/

Towerblock Arcade Light Show Party | Poland

via youtube.com

This is wicked, full of bitmapped-pixel-arcade goodness...by a group of Polish students at Wroclaw University of Technology http://www.pwr.wroc.pl/index.dhtml, mmmm.

See the tribute to Michael Jackson clip here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXYCDZlQn7A&feature=related

Also see the original Blinkenlights project http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYEBB-0CSiw&feature=player_embedded#!

PAC-MAN: Original development sketches

Toru Iwatani http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tōru_Iwatani   shows original PAC-MAN sketches whilst on a bus near the Netherlands Festival of Games - http://www.festivalofgames.nl/site/

Via @Rich_Oglesby and @GammaCounter from original articles here: http://control-online.nl/gamesindustrie/2010/06/22/iwatani-toont-gamesgeschie... and here: http://prostheticknowledge.tumblr.com/post/729023756/original-sketches-made-d...

Graphic Artist Raymond Savignac | France 1907-2002

I've recently been introduced to the deceptively simple, optimistic and humorous work of the late Raymond Savignac, 1907-2002 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Savignac - who started under the direction of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassandre -  fantastic free mark-making style, characters and compositions which were popular in the French advertising industry of the last century.

 
Here's a collection of the 'Trouville-Sur-Mer' posters on the Normandy coast of France where Sauvignac spent his later years. His style is evident everywhere in Trouville - branding the Hotels, Shops, Casino's and Beaches - there is a line up of his work all down the beach board-walk, the style really adds to the historic, laid-back seaside town and really puts it on the map. 

A selection of work from Savignac's long career in advertising and graphic communication...

Poster archives: http://www.guyantique.com/savignac.html and http://www.posterclassics.com/i2/Savignac-posters.html

Trouville is sometimes overlooked due to being a stone's throw from Deauville http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deauville the popular vacation spot for Coco Chanel during her affair with Boy Capel. The two opened her second shop there, which was the first place Chanel took the step from hat making to clothing. Deauville was the birth place of Chanel's clothing career.