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L’année 2020 a obligé les fabricants à repenser leur façon de travailler. Dans le monde entier, la crise COVID a freiné les déplacements nécessaires à l’approbation des prototypes et a retardé les expéditions d’échantillons physiques. De nombreuses marques ont commencé à chercher des moyens d’utiliser des échantillons de couleurs numériques pour assurer la continuit&ea...

Virtual reality has re-imagined the art of apparel and footwear design. 3D design programs like MODO, KeyShot, CLO, Browzwear, Optitex, and Lectra augment the creativity of color and material designers to virtually construct patterns and render realistic 3D garments.  This is exciting technology for brands that want to reduce waste for a greener footprint and accelerate design to keep up with fast fashion. However, designers are notoriously tactile. They need to touch, feel, and gain a...

Bien que les professionnels du plastique gèrent les problèmes de couleur dans le flux de production depuis de nombreuses années, la dynamique évolue à nouveau. De l’électronique grand public aux pièces automobiles et aux emballages souples, un nombre croissant de marques intègrent des finitions à effets spéciaux dans leurs produits. Si des rendus métallisés ou nacrés et d’autres effets complexes sont magnifiques et mettent les marques en valeur en rayon, ils n’en présentent pas moins de nouvell...

Nous avons récemment écrit sur l’influence de l’apparence sur la couleur. Cet article porte sur certaines des caractéristiques qui influencent l’apparence d’un objet, telles que la texture, la brillance, la transparence et les effets spéciaux, et explique pourquoi il est essentiel de décrire l’apparence dès les premières étapes du flux de conception. Alors que les programmes 3D tentent depuis des années...

Appearance is more than simply color. It’s a comprehensive look at everything inherent to each unique material we come in contact with, including texture, gloss, transparency, and special effects. Each of these characteristics plays a part and has an effect on overall appearance and understanding in relation to a single material. Objects may have several elements that affect appearance, such as the material’s surface texture, construction, overall geometry and micro-surface. The environ...

Have you seen the Academy Award-Winning La La Land, where the stars dance through the cosmos and experience alternate realities? Or the commercial, where a famous freestyle dancer slides down the street, up the walls, over the marquee and beyond, transported by his next-gen earphones? Maybe you’ve seen this Russian packaging that superimposes conflicting scales. Surrealism is bleeding into our reality, and I kind of think it’s a zeitgeist. Simply defined, surrealism strives to reconcile our dre...

If you didn’t catch my Industry 4.0: What Commercial Printers Need to Know article, you’ll want to check it out now. Today’s blog is a continuation, touching on the most interesting print color management tie-ins: PQX, iccMAX, mobile control and new materials. Here’s what on the horizon for color-managed workflows. Image courtesy of Esko.com. Print Quality eXchange PQX was a global effort developed by Idealliance, and is now moving to ISO to be issued as a standard. It ...

As we close out 2016, it’s time to look ahead to 2017 and the upcoming manufacturing trends that will influence how we do business in the New Year. With rapidly changing technology, it’s difficult to know exactly what’s coming next, but we can definitely make some predictions. Over the past year, I have interviewed many customers across a variety of manufacturing industries to learn more about their industry concerns, the design and manufacturing challenges they face, and the t...

Over the past few weeks, X-Rite Pantone has profiled some of this year’s ArtPrize Seven artists who use color as a way to express their creativity and encourage viewers to think about art differently. If you are not from the Grand Rapids area, ArtPrize is an international art competition that spans 10 miles and includes over 1,500 artists. As a leadership sponsor, X-Rite is using this event to highlight the intersection of the art and science of color in our everyday lives. Our last artist profi...