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pantime

Pantime

Pantime_detail

Pantime is a student project by James Beattie of Bedford College, UK

(thank you Jeffrey Tribe)

October 31, 2008 in designers i like |

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ok... there is WAY too much "hey, lets PANTONE-ize common,everyday objects and then bask in our perceived cleverness!" going on.

Posted by: bobby | October 31, 2008 at 04:32 PM

Maybe so, but this looks damn nice and I wouldn't mind having a clock like this on my wall as a decorative object, although telling the precise time might be sort of difficult...

Posted by: Randy Ludacer | October 31, 2008 at 05:05 PM

Tian Harlan did this with the Chromachron in the 70s, I'm assuming its a "homage"...

Posted by: peaky | November 01, 2008 at 10:52 AM

what decided where 12 o'clock was on the color wheel?

does it match up with Chromo(tm)?
http://protein.co.uk/chromo/

Posted by: ChrisFizik | November 01, 2008 at 05:17 PM

Pantone reference 012 (yellow) determined that it appeared at 12 o'clock. There is no reference to Chromo/Chromachron.

Posted by: Jeffrey Tribe | November 01, 2008 at 08:31 PM

I'm no artist, but this clock is beautiful and I would love to buy one! :-D

Posted by: Harry_ThaBombShelter | November 05, 2008 at 11:49 AM

I would note that the same color scheme works very nicely for the year.

I had this idea a while ago, and was amazed to discover there were 24-hour clock mechanisms out there. But I never built one.

I also mapped music's circle of fifths to the color wheel, with C at yellow, G at orange-yellow, etc. If you gave your clock a corresponding set of chimes, those with perfect pitch would always know the hour....

I also had the idea of using the old kind of drop-leaf digital clocks for this purpose. And then I thought about putting little paintings on each leaf.

Too many ideas, too little time.

Well, let me know if these are ever for sale.

Posted by: eric | November 05, 2008 at 02:07 PM

It reminds me of a concept I did for a design challenge earlier this year...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/78145641@N00/2253714651/

Posted by: Shawn Terpack | November 09, 2008 at 02:50 PM

Lovely!

Reminds me of the 'Colour-Time' watches and clocks by Tian Harlan in the 70's 80's.
http://seeseebe.blogspot.com/search/label/timepiece

Posted by: Colleen | November 20, 2008 at 07:33 AM

I think this is an excellent piece of design. I would love to have one if it was ever made into a working clock! I find it hysterical that some people can be so critical (some of the comments above)...probably just jealous that they didn't come up with the idea themselves.

Posted by: Laura | January 25, 2009 at 04:15 PM

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