“Being calm in pink and blue will deliver us from evil. Carefully-selected colour swatches, if only some paint-God would reveal itself, are the antidote to war, global warming and bigotry.”
Last week, I went all Beautiful Mind on the Pantone Colour of the Year announcement, specifically its 55-second video accompanying the announcement. Here’s my rant.
I put together a play-by-play of the vid. It was excruciating work. But the world needed to know.
Read the full piece: The Pantone Color of the Year is a Big Steaming Pile of Turd.
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December 16, 2015 at 4:30 pm
vellissima
You might appreciate this – Miami sinking beneath the Pantone colors of the year: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/12/21/the-siege-of-miami
December 16, 2015 at 5:14 pm
Monique Deschaines
THIS IS HILARIOUS!
you know that Drake is in a Turrell, correct? I think Pantone has been dipping its toes in several turrell pieces, THAT is who should be their sponsor
but I love that you wrote a piece about your hatred of it
December 16, 2015 at 5:32 pm
petebrook
Drake is not in a Turrell! It looks like one but, I mean, it can’t be. That staircase is way too “actual” for Turrell.
December 17, 2015 at 12:05 pm
Deb at The Front Door Project
I think they were afraid that picking pink OR blue would offend the other one. What with all the focus on political correctness, and such. Silly!
December 18, 2015 at 7:28 am
iriselsewhere
I loved your making the point about instilling docility under the guise of serenity – it’s so ubiquitous now I think people hardly notice it any more. It needs to be said!