Color of the year
Pantone has named Blue Iris as the color of the year for 2008.
Blue Iris brings together the dependable aspects of blue, underscored by a strong, soul-searching purple cast. Emotionally, it is anchoring and meditative with a touch of magic.
The color of the year for 2006 was Sand Dollar, “a neutral color that expresses concern about the economy”. Did they maybe get these backwards?
Whatever. In honor of Pantone and the new year, I’ve generated another of my non-periodic plaids. The background is Blue Iris, with the soul-searching and the magic. The lines are Sand Dollar, to express my concern about the economy. The non-periodic spacing symbolizes the existential chaos of modern capitalism, where the very colors of the rainbow are appropriated, branded and enlisted in the relentless marketing of consumer products.