Enameled steel kitchen storage canisters — for flour, sugar, tea, coffee, etc. — are tons of fun to thrift, but these make a good argument for a newer style. The small, airtight jars have interchangeable magnetic labels in the style of the Pantone color chips.
These would accent an all-white or wood kitchen quite nicely, or fit right in to the color medley in cozier kitchens.
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Great idea. Just what some of those stark white kitchens need. Love the pink one.
i am partly color blind and i am forced to work with pantones as a graphic designer. i like these a lot. and hate them at the same time.
because pantones are a pain in the ass for me.
shutup! too dorky-awesome. it'll go great with my pantone coffee mug!
anyone know where to get them in the US?
WANT.
Ditto. Want and where in US?
Could someone explain to me the fascination everyone seems to have with this company? These seem like fairly mundane canisters to me but every time something's posted about Pantone people go nuts.
Not trying to be snarky, genuinely wondering.
very cute!
i loooove the circo bright dot canisters by typhoon...
http://www.typhoonplus.com/CircoDot.html
anyone know where to get those online? they list some US retailers but none in IL
I love them! Don't need them at all. But...want...must resist....
Griffin- I agree with you. I actually like the mugs because I could see them working well in an office environment, I even considered buying them as gifts for my assistants (I'm an art director) But I can't quite imagine what the appeal of having these in your kitchen at home is... just seems out of place and rather silly... and dare I say pretencious?
So can you remove the Pantone magnets and just use them as regular containers? I like Pantone just fine - at work. But I don't feel the need to display it in my kitchen.
Ooh, I'd love those for office storage. They might help me better explain to my non-designing coworkers why PMS doesn't mean what they think it means.
I picked up a Pantone coffee mug in Edinburgh last year. Funny thing is, the color of the mug matches neither the corresponding color card attached to the mug nor the same color in the Pantone book. Really, if it's going to be a Pantone line, shouldn't a test run have been done and subsequent color corrections made?
/design amusement
I agree with Griffin. Not sure what the fascination is with pantone products either. The cannisters are nice, but I have to admit...i'm not gaga over them.
I agree with the other posters who are not super crazy about this. The branding of colors bugs me. Also, at the risk of sounding too cynical, the idea that a logo or a brand (cough, Apple, cough) makes one suddenly seem "creative" makes me wince a bit.
Pantone colorbooks are the bible of branding and graphic design. You'd be hard pressed to find a logo, a bottle, a tag or hundreds of thousands of items that do not have a Pantone color match.
I don't get it. Unless you can order them finished in any Pantone color, how is this different than any other blue, black, red, or green kitchen canister?
The Pantone brand is about choices. Having them pick the shade of blue is not about choices. How does this actually advance the core agenda of the brand?
Not getting the synergy here.
Awesome - love these!
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This is not good for my colour addiction...
Honestly, these are not the greatest Pantone color choices. They are all very primary and boring. Now, if I could choose my own...I would be all over it. 639c anyone?