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Amazing design and typography from Mark Adamson.

“A poster the recipient completes by revealing spot-varnished type with hands made dirty by handling the poster, the back of which is coated with powdered pigment. This is the first of a series of posters.”

by Roland Tiangco

Vanessa Lam is a talented designer from Los Angeles, with some lovely print work.

This calendar from Wüsthof Knives illustrates an onion being cut into 365 slices – a photo per each day of the year.

Via Ads of the World

great post at All Graphic Design News on invitation design.

VS Energy International Ukraine calendar by Yurko Gutsulyak. a match for every day!

incredible handmade 2009 calendars. view them all.

nice brochure designed by SKRIBBLA.

awesome screenprinted posters from Matt Pamer at Public Domain Design, check them out.

CMYK (short for cyan, magenta, yellow, and key (black), and often referred to as process color or four color) is a subtractive color model, used in color printing, also used to describe the printing process itself. Though it varies by print house, press operator, press manufacturer and press run, ink is typically applied in the order of the abbreviation.

The Pantone Color Matching System is largely a standardized color reproduction system. By standardizing the colors, different manufacturers in different locations can all refer to the Pantone system to make sure colors match without direct contact with one another.

One such use is standardizing colors in the CMYK process. The CMYK process is a method of printing color by using four inks—cyan, magenta, yellow and black. The vast majority of the world’s printed material is produced using the CMYK process, and there is a special subset of Pantone colors that can be reproduced using CMYK. Those that are possible to simulate through the CMYK process are labeled as such within the company’s guides.

However, most of the Pantone system’s 1,114 spot colors cannot be simulated with CMYK but with 13 base pigments (15 including white and black) mixed in specified amounts.

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