[CREATE] Open Colour Standard(s) and LGM

[ginger coons]

Actually, after my previous enthusiasm, I've come up with a little sober
second thought. Questions:
Their goal is to sell ink and fan books. They're developing the ink. How can
we expect them to deal with that ink? I'll take it for granted that they
won't look kindly on other ink companies trying to make the exact same
colours, in order to be in compliance with a hypothetical Open Colour
Standard. Or am I wrong in thinking that?
As for fan books, if they're manufacturing them, how will they deal with
other people (independent print shops, for example) who may want to print
their own? Will it be officially sanctioned or not?

Those are my two immediate questions. I don't want to be a killjoy, because
I am excited about this, but I just want to make sure that we get a colour
standard that's open in a physical as well as a digital sense.

-- 
ginger coons
adaptstudio.ca
514.213.1318 (Montreal)
647.865.7757 (Toronto)

On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 5:13 AM, ginger coons <ginger at adaptstudio.ca> wrote:

> That's excellent news! I do believe it makes much of my work obsolete.
> Neat. Christoph, this is incredibly exciting. One question: in the case of
> modified colours, where the company doesn't want its name used, does that
> mean not even being able to make reference to the inks required to print the
> given colour?
>
>
> After some back and forth via email, the manager also suggested the
>> creation
>> of an Open Colour Standard for printing. He suggested 30--50 base colours,
>> which would result in about 1200 tints. The company would participate in
>> an
>> open process that will lead to the creation of the standard and then print
>> and distribute the colour fans (and the ink, of course) for different
>> printing processes.
>>
>
> As for their take on an Open Colour Standard, I'm curious to see what sort
> of process they're interested in using to open up the tint creation process.
>
>
> Finally, the guy is eager to attend LGM and discuss all the details with us
>> in
>> Brussels :)
>>
>
> Looking forward to meeting this guy in Brussels.
>
> --
> ginger coons
> adaptstudio.ca
> 514.213.1318 (Montreal)
> 647.865.7757 (Toronto)
>
>
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