Design: rubitone

Hungarian architect, designer and university professor Erno Rubik invented the Rubik’s Cube in 1974. He designed the Cube as a way of explaining geometry and it soon became the fastest-selling toy in history. The height of Rubik’s Cube popularity was in the 1980s but today, there are still ‘speed-cubing’ world championships held (overseen by the World Cube Association), and even a giant Rubik’s Cube in Knoxville, Tennessee. Erno Rubik is now retired but there are still hundreds of different versions of the Cube being made. In 1995, Diamond Cutters International designed and produced a fully functional 185 carat gold Cube to celebrate the Rubik’s Cube’s 15th anniversary. One of the most recent versions of the Cube is the Rubitone – a meshing together of the Cube with the Pantone colour scale. Designed by Ignacio Pilotto, the Rubitone comes with complete with correct Panetone numbering for all those design devotees. Design inpiration or endless frustration? You choose.