Pantone colours

Focussing on colour, the first place I thought to look online was the Pantone website, as I love the colour swatches for paint and homeware you find in B&Q and their colour range has become fashionable for socks, notebooks, mugs, etc. As it turns out, they are celebrating their own 50th anniversary, and in 2011 created 175 new colours in cotton and paper formats as a result.

From pantone.co.uk the PANTONE PLUS SERIES of colour

I like the irregular edge created by the imprecise overlapping of paper swatches here, and the graduated colour effect created. The variety of stripe width focusses the eye on the centre but encourages the viewer to look at everything on the way in. 

They show different colour trends over the decades, that reflected fashion at the time and give a sense of the mood for the decade. Each one is totally distinctive, and it would be interesting to try and incorporate some of these colours together; I could play with their arrangement, mixing and matching ones from different decades to make new colour palettes that reflect the entire period of time.