The future of the luggage tag

Some day the identification of pieces of luggage will be more sophisticated than a printed barcode on a piece of paper. And even today the future is sometimes already hidden inside the luggage tag in the form a a chip with an antenna.

someshirt baggage tags

Ye olde Apple keyboard (and the new one)

someshirt type tools

Who's Afraid...

of Red, Yellow and Blue...

and Who of Pink and Green?

Métro style

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Some things you do make you feel proud, some things make you feel humble. Other things make you feel both. We were very pleased with our idea of using used Parisian métro tickets for someshirt 1202, only to discover that someone else had already applied this motif on a garment, and a long time ago too. In 1956 the French cartoonist Siné made this funny and beautiful cover for the Livre de Poche edition of Raymond Queneau's equally funny and brilliant novel Zazie dans le Métro, on which he gave the metro obsessed Zazie an appropriate dress. And for reasons unknown gave it to the parrot Laverdure ("Talk, talk, that's all you can do") as well...

Colour fidelity

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Great as computers are in communication, they are seriously flawed in one area: colour fidelity. How do you know, for example, what kind of yellowish green is someshirt 1201 exactly? The truth is, you don't know. Not exactly. Even if a photo of this shirt looks right on our screen, there is no guarantee it will be the same on your screen. So much depends factors like the type of display, the program you are using, the lighting conditions in your room, the viewing angle and so on. Fortunately, there is something like a universal language of colour: the Pantone color system. So if you are in the possession of a Pantone color selector, look at the pages that show the colours PMS 393U-399U and 581U-587U, and you will have a pretty good idea of the range of greens in someshirt 1201!

Penguin and color coding

"In those days, paperbacks came in their traditional liveries: orange Penguins for fiction, blue Pelicans for non-fiction. To have more blue than orange on your shelf was proof of seriousness."(Julian Barnes, 'The Sense of an Ending', 2012)

someshirt pelican spines