This week was a very Peri-week. Every design-related blog I follow posted about Pantone’s 2022 color of the year: Very Peri. Or to the rest of us, periwinkle. After 2021’s bi-polar color selections of isolation mopey grey and hopeful pale yellow, Pantone suggests that 2022 will be a more vibrant year. I love color and I think Very Peri is a pretty lavender purple but I still think its a little ambitious to designate a color for a whole year. Look at 2019. Pantone chose rosy “Living Coral” and we were all more “Cheeto Orange” in our lockdown homes. While I appreciate the effort, I’m also a little amused. What’s your take?
Posts of the Week:
- Pantone announces its Colour of the Year – and Microsoft helps bring it to life (via Creative Boom)
- 2022 Just Got Very Peri; It’s Also the Pantone Color of the Year (via Dieline)
- Pantone Colour of the Year 2022 is a brand new colour, to reflect our “transformative times” (via Its Nice That)
- Pantone Color Of The Year 2022: Very Peri (via The Designest)
Pens:
- Kaweco Special Red Collection Fountain pen (via Nick Stewart FOUNTAIN PEN INK ART)
- The partner purchase: A milestone of pen-enabling (via mnmlscholar)
- Review: M200 Golden Beryl (2021) (via The Pelikan’s Perch)
- Woodshed Pen Company custom pen (via Flex & Other Follies)
- Using An Ultrasonic Cleaner With Your Fountain Pens (via Fountain Pen Love)
- Review: Phosbronze nib from Osprey Pens (via Parka Blogs)
- Ystudio Portable (via Stationery 🍕 )
- Pen Review: Pininfarina PF Two Fountain Pen (via The Gentleman Stationer)
Ink:
- Diamine 2021 Inkvent Ink Review: Days 1-7 (via Pen Chalet Blog)
- Ñ-MEDITERRANEO ink exclusives (via Nick Stewart FOUNTAIN PEN INK ART)
- The currently inked Inkvent challenge, week one (via mnmlscholar)
- Diamine Inkvent 2021 Day 13 (via Writing at Large)
- Diamine Blue Edition Midnight Hour Sheen (via Fountain Pen Pharmacist)
- Diamine Blue Edition Season’s Greetings (via Fountain Pen Pharmacist)
- Three Dream Inks (via Mountain of Ink)
- Diamine Inkvent 2021, Part 1 (via Mountain of Ink)
- Lennon Tool Bar Celastrina Sugitanii Shirozui on Tomoe River (via Inkcredible Colours)
Pencils:
- Stock-up Obsession: “B” and “2B” Pencils (via The Gentleman Stationer)
- Blackwing 602 (via Stationery 🍕)
- Blackwing Pearl (via Stationery 🍕)
- Bruce Lee Blackwing (via Wonder Pens Blog)
- Trimline 3594 (via Bleistift)
Notebooks & Paper:
- Clever Fox Dotted Notebook Comparison: Original versus 2.0 Journal – which is better? (via All About Planners)
- Notebook Rescue (via Notebook Stories)
- Notebook sizes (via Stationery 🍕)
Art & Creativity:
- Schmincke French Ultramarine Colour Shift (via Liz Steel)
- Artist Fills Her Sketchbook With Vibrant Paintings of Nature (via My Modern Met)
- Review: Baohong Watercolour Paper (Artist Grade) (via Parka Blogs)
- One Evening and One Pomegranate (Sketchbook Spread) (via Apple-Pine)
Other Interesting Things:
- What’s catching the eye of Gen Z? Here we look at the visual trends their habits are shaping (via Creative Boom)
- Atlas Stationers – So Many Aisles, So Little Time (via The Pen Addict)
- A brief history of MTV IDs and the impact they’ve had on the creative world (via Its Nice That)
- Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street (via Kottke.org)
- The Postal Service (Not the Band) Has a Podcast Now (via Vulture)
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I like Very Peri a lot… my bathroom is that color (with lime trim)! But I’m glad I’m not a designer wondering how I will work that into every trendy thing.