Pantone mugs

By: Penny Modra
Date: 14th May 08
Product: Design
Theft: Theft is likely

What:
Pantone mugs

Where:
NGV Shop at NGV International, St Kilda Rd, Melbourne

When:
10am-5pm every day except Tuesday

How much:
$19.95

If you are colourblind you can forget about a career in aviation. Make-up? Also not for you. Lollypop person? Ten points for good intentions. Assisting Patricia Field? OK yeah, but c'mon.

In all, it's slim pickings. And who would have thought Pantone - those Nazis of the spectrum since 1962 - cared? But they're throwing you a bone in the form of Pantone mugs, stamped with the code of their colour. Now you can absorb the richness of PMS 032C refracting off your coffee mug onto your eyeballs just like the rest of us.

Note: There are many products in the Pantone Universe, including house paint, stationery, Uniqlo cashmere jumpers and laptop bags, but most of them can only be shipped as far as Europe, where the rights of the colourblind are evidently a weightier concern.