Pantone Autumn 2018 colours guide came out, and somehow I missed posting about it! I’ve been pretty busy of late, but that was a bit of an oversight! You know how I like Pantone and the idea of seasonal fashion colours.
As always, I’ve got some gorgeous matches for you in my gemstone collection for the London colours. Everything from fabulous charoite to gorgeous chrysocolla.
If you see a gemstone you like the look of and you’d like me to create you a custom piece, let me know! Pantone 2018 autumn colours will still be relevant any time.
The colour of the year for 2018 was luscious Ultra Violet. So many fabulous amethysts and charoites to match that beautiful shade!
Pantone’s latest colour guide is out, and Spring 2018 is an interesting mix! As always, I’ve got some gorgeous matches for you in my gemstone collection for the London colours.
If you see a gemstone you like the look of and you’d like me to create you a custom piece, let me know!
The ever wonderful colour gurus Pantone have changed things up a little with their 2017 Autumn fashion colour palette. They’ve made a New York AND a London release! As I’m more of a London girl, I’ve found some fabulous matches for you in my gemstone collection for these great London colours.
If you see a gemstone you like the look of and you’d like me to create you a custom piece, let me know!
Pantone’s Autumn colours for 2016. are here. I love the idea of classifying and naming every colour in the world, and I also love to show you which stones in my gemstone collection match the latest in fashion choices!
If you see a gemstone you like the look of, and you’d like me to create you a custom piece, let me know.
Meanwhile, how cute are these Pantone board books? Gorgeous!
Pantone have just released their Spring Colours for 2016. I’m ready with some divine gemstones to match this fashion report!
If you see a gemstone you like the look of, and you’d like me to create you a custom piece, let me know.
Pantone’s ‘Color Of The Year’ for 2016 is, for the first time ever, a blend of two shades: Rose Quartz & Serenity, which you can see above. A serene and peaceful feel, just what the world needs right now. Imagine what gorgeous pieces you could have with a combination of these two!
Albert Henry Munsell was born in Boston Massachusetts on January 6, 1858 and died on June 28, 1918. He attended the Massachusetts Normal Art School in Boston, and was hired as an instructor in 1881 shortly after graduating. He was later appointed lecturer in Color Composition and Artistic Anatomy. Munsell taught at the institution for 37 years. He took a brief leave from 1885-1888 to study art in Paris at L’Ecole des Beaux Arts, where he won several awards for his work. (I feel Massachusetts must have been a magical place – my favourite Ralph Waldo Emerson was from there, as were Edgar Allan Poe and the wonderful Theodor Seuss Geisel!)
{photograph of Munsell included in his 1905 book”A Color Notation”}
Munsell is best known for his 1905 book ‘A Color Notation’, and his 1915 book (and precursor to today’s ‘Munsell Books of Color’), ‘Atlas of the Color Solid’. As well as being an artist and teacher, Munsell was also an inventor. He holds several patents for a color-sphere and mount; an artist’s easel, and a photometer. I love that he developed a range of crayons in 1906, which in 1926 were sold to the Binney & Smith Company (owner of Crayola) and were then referred to as ‘Munsell Crayola Crayons‘.
The Munsell color system is three-dimensional, and specifies colors based on three color dimensions: hue, value (lightness), and chroma (color purity). This evolving color science theory served as the basis for today’s color matching technology.
I was very taken with this system, as it seems to me to be able to pinpoint with ease every imaginable colour! The only place I feel it is lacking is in the romance department – colour is divine, but gorgeous names for colour make it even more so. It doesn’t matter at all – we can all see 5GY, and call it lime, apple, chartreuse. 5RP makes sense – and it can be known as magenta, fuchsia or mulberry.
To celebrate finding out about Munsell, I’ve re-organised the ‘filter by colour’ option in my shop to include some more of the wonderful hues (and I’ve named them, too.) Beautiful, wonderful, magnificent colour – where would we be without you!
The latest fashion release from Pantone is their autumn colours for 2015. As always, I like to do a little match with my gemstone collection!
If you see a gemstone you like the look of, and you’d like me to create you a custom piece, let me know.
A quick note about the 5th colour from the left – it is Marsala, which Pantone selected as their colour of the year for 2015. I am underwhelmed. 🙁 Happily though, there are many other colours that we can enjoy! 🙂
Pantone have released their gorgeous palette for Spring 2015, and because spring is here already in the Southern Hemisphere, we can get in early. Lucky us! I love a bit of Pantone colour, as you can see from my previous blog posts here, here, here and here.
Divine soft colours seem to rule this time! As always, I’ve looked through my gemstone collection and matched these spring tone gemstones for you. If any of these gemstones appeal, let me know and I can create you something beautiful to go with your latest Spring wardrobe.
I was quite taken with this colourful Pantone iconic cartoon character guessing game recently created by Y&R, Shanghai. It’s called “There can be only one”. Who can you pick out?
Autumn is on its way, and Pantone have released the next round of the latest colour trends! I’ve raved about Pantone colour in some previous blog posts here, here and here. And as you can see, I’m still loving the concept. I’m not sure how many of these colours I’ll be wearing this autumn, but you never know!
I’ve browsed my gemstone collection and matched these autumn colours – if any of these gemstones appeal to you, let me know and I can create you something beautiful to go with your latest Autumn fashion choices. And you can always go with Phosphosiderite for that Radiant Orchid splash!
Because Autumn brings the need for more cups of tea, I found these mugs which are Pantone inspired:
(available from Suck UK)
Hehehe – mine’s somewhere between Classic British and Builder’s Brew, thanks! 🙂
