Rainbow created with 5000 Pantone color chips

Posted by Xeni Jardin, August 24, 2009 9:31 AM | permalink

A rainbow sculptured by hand from 5,000 Pantone color chips, glued onto wood boards. (via Chuck Anderson)

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#1 posted by daemonsquire, August 24, 2009 10:17 AM

Here is a slightly more informative link, that mentions where the rainbow is--Jakarta--and who built it--Bates 141--and a link to one of the art directors' flickr photostream.

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#2 posted by soubriquet, August 24, 2009 10:45 AM

Sculpted.

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#3 posted by Anonymous, August 24, 2009 12:47 PM

omg...that's sooooo gay

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#4 posted by Rodney, August 24, 2009 1:15 PM

What a beautiful photo...so vivid.

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#5 posted by rtresco, August 24, 2009 4:46 PM

I was going to say that Pantone chip books are very expensive, and if this had been just an individual artist... no way. But after looking at the link I see now that Pantone bank rolled this.

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#6 posted by J France, August 24, 2009 8:00 PM

F-in oath they are expensive.

I'm still using my faded, scratched, not-really-accurate printers fobs from, uh, 15 years ago.

When you think about how much ink and print time went into those chips... well, that is one rainbow with a phenomenal carbon footprint.

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#7 posted by Anonymous, August 25, 2009 3:25 AM

I'm a professional graphic designer.

Pantone is the devil's seed.

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#8 posted by Antinous / Moderator, August 25, 2009 1:00 PM

To everyone who flagged #3,