Fwd: <nameless> [Rock] [indiepop-list] Magnetic Fields meets Pantone (fwd)

[Frederic Madre]

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>Date: Mon, 08 May 2000 16:49:42 -0500
>From: Fred Hubnik <fredh@nabi.net>
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>Subject: [indiepop-list] Magnetic Fields meets Pantone
>Resent-Date: Mon, 8 May 2000 14:53:23 -0700
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>I know there a quite a few graphics people on this list.  thought this=
 would
>be of interest:
>
> =20
> > Magnetic Fields' Stephin Merritt Names New Pantone Color
> > It's all a ploy to get young children to buy his vegetables
> >=20
> > Ryan Schreiber reports:
> > The Magnetic Fields' Stephin Merritt was able to make the ultimate
> > contribution to society last week when he was asked by Pantone, the
> > world-renowned authority of color and provider of color standards, to=
 name one
> > of their brand new, never- before-seen new colors for the newest version=
 of
> > their Pantone Matching System. He was offered a shade of green-- PANTONE=
 7498
> > to be exact. Merritt chose the name Carolyn Eve Green, after a friend=
 living
> > in the Rocky Mountains. "If vegetables were Carolyn Eve Green," he said,
> > "children would be happier to eat them."
> >=20
> > Pantone executive vice president Richard Herbert explains, "We selected=
 a
> > small, eclectic group of creative experts to celebrate the new Graphics=
 Color
> > Systems because they are each known for innovative use of color in their
> > respective fields." Merritt's "innovative use of color" was apparently=
 the
> > lyric, "You make me blue/ Pantone 292," from 69 Love Songs. Among the=
 other
> > color experts were Mary GrandPr=E8, illustrator of the "Harry Potter"=
 books;
> > Peter Martins, Ballet Master-in-Chief of the New York City Ballet; Grand
> > Louvre architect I.M. Pei; and fashion designer Randolph Duke.