Designers tend to quickly become obsessed with their every day working tools or habits. The pantone book is a good example, it has gone from being a simple way to have a good color reference, making printing work easier, to everyday objects.

Following are a few examples of creative use of Pantones in objects. If you like it, why don’t you participate in the Pantone matching group on Flickr?

Pantones helping you to drink your coffee as you like it, via Gizmodo.

The Pantone mugs.

Pantone eyewear.

The great Pantone matryoshka.

Pantones helping you to customize your mobile phone.

Pantone flight stools.

• A cool dress on Flickr
• Nice short animation for the Zürich Chamber Orchestra
• The great sketchbook of Jim Stoten
• Food that has taken the shape of its container
• New graphic design in China
• The Helvetica Neue t-shirt
• Build, share and download fonts with FontStruct

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Three of the exterior walls are floor-to-ceiling glass and of those, two are encased in horizontal cedar-screens for privacy, shade and light effects inside. One of the cedar screens has a large opening providing a direct view of the sunset from the built-in bed. The rest of the screen has random smaller gaps to allow various vignettes of the surrounding nature and to create fantastic light patterns inside. The slats are positioned so that there is no direct view in from the outside, but at the same time, it the inside feels almost wall-less.

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Something I have always wanted to see with my own eyes, northern lights. For now I’ll just have to look at Norio Matsumoto’s photos.

Creative bookshelf via Freshome.

Made me laugh, you can also learn how to create your own.