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David Schwen | Pantone Pairings

Bacon and eggs, cookies and milk, peanut butter and jelly — these are some of the food combinations that we've grown up with and love together. David Schwen has taken these and has recreated paired Pantone colour swatches — the standard language for colour communication — with commonly paired food items. A Minneapolis-based illustrator and art director, Schwen first had the idea of making Pantone chips out of real household objects, such as sponges, cardboard, and the like. While finishing up on another design project, Schwen taped two Pantone chips side by side to see how they would look next to one another and that's where he instantly thought of how people pair food together and that was the beginning of his Pantone Pairings series.

Currently Schewen's Pantone Pairings are available to see online through his Instagram (#PantonePairings) and Facebook page with prints on the way.

 

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