An artist made new beer can designs based on the Pantone Colors of the beer inside

[thomdunn]

Originally published at: An artist made new beer can designs based on the Pantone Colors of the beer inside | Boing Boing

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[FSogol]

Very cool. For me, it never needs to be lighter than this:

[nobodez]

I’m not a fan of bitter, so my preferred alcoholic drink is cider, so not exactly relevant to all of my interests, but cool design nonetheless.

[Beanolini]

Also featured here some time ago.

Pantone apparently have a colour called ‘root beer’ now.

[anothernewbbaccount]

Never mind the colour, when is a bottle a can?

Is it a bottle because it is NOT made out of aluminium?

If it is made out of aluminium and IS bottle-shaped , is it a can?

Is it a can only if it is can-shaped?

Is this a can?

I can honestly say I do not have the bottle to confront these existential riddles.

[bobtato]

Assigning Pantone colors to translucent materials is colorimetrically dubious, but I do like the idea of bottle-shaped cans.

[wolfman_al2]

Oh, I like this!
I´m a sucker for that kind of stuff.

[blackeye]

Those are pretty. I hope the artist got paid a lot. There, I said something nice.

I just think most efforts using Pantone images on things is just lazy design work. As opposed to this, which is brilliant: