Fine Art Focus: Wassily Kandinsky
Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky (b. 1866) was a Russian painter and art theorist. Kandinsky is generally credited as one of the pioneers of abstraction in western art. Born in Moscow, he began painting studies (life-drawing, sketching and anatomy) at the age of 30. In...
next-level gift wrapping
When giving gifts or sending presents in Japan, it is customary to show special care not only to the contents, but to the way a gift is wrapped and the wrapping itself. In Japanese culture, gift wrapping can be as important as the gift, where the gift is viewed as a form of communication between the giver and the receiver.
jewelry boxes: safe keeping, sentiment and sparkle
Jewelry boxes have captivated hearts and minds for centuries, serving as both functional storage solutions and artistic expressions of culture and craftsmanship. From ancient civilizations that used simple containers to safeguard their treasured adornments, to the...
The anti-Trump: The NEW DEAL & HOW THOUGHTFUL GOVERNMENT RESTORED A BATTERED Nation
It's difficult to imagine today that, at one point, the US led the world in creating societal safety nets; made signifigant investments in the arts and enouraged diversity (and equity and inclusion). The Great Depression, starting in 1929, was a severe global economic...
MAKE IT YOURS: CUSTOM PERSONALIZATION
cgk.ink offers various personalization options for most of our products. You can customize items like: Our designs are digital, so we can (mostly) take any design and place it on any other item. So, if you like the design of, say, a shirt, we can replicate it on a...
the fine arts FOCUS: LEONETTO CAPPIELLO: ADVERTISEMENT as FINE ART
He is credited to revolutionize the old thinking of poster illustration during his time. Cappiello’s concept of poster art was simple, to simply engage audience faster by creating unconventional visual impact. He was the first poster artist to boldly experiment and...
Let me introduce you: Chris, welcome to Los Angeles
Howdy! I've been living here for a decade or so and I've picked up a lot of new info. I'm a slow learner. I'm feeling kinda friendly, so I'm gonna share: Metro Not "THE Metro," it's just "METRO." It rhymes with "assault" and "dead-fentanyl-addict." And "urine." It is...
the POWER of the MANDALA
Though rooted in Buddhism, mandalas soon became present in Hinduism and other religious practices. Painters of the spiritual craft were often pious laymen, who were commissioned by a patron. They worked seated on the floor with a painting propped in their laps or in front of their crossed legs.
the HAWAIIAN SHIRT COLLECTION: MAHALO!
Hawaiian style is all about ease and comfort. It's also about celebrating the colors and forms of this unique tropical, Pacific location. As with most creative expression, we always seek out the most profane, bastardized version of whatever we are are admiring. A few...
Amazon’s a bitch
It's presumptuous to say that I know how to run a giga-trillion, global company who outpaced Kuwait's GDP this year. I do not know how to do that. I also do not know how to launch things into outer space, deliver anything by a drone or how to even hotwire a van. I do...
the ART of INDIA
The diversity of the world’s largest national population is astounding. 122 languages, including the planet’s oldest language: Hindi. 12 religions. 1.408 billion people (est. 2021). 29 states. This pluralism nurtures an insane wealth of art and cultural expression....
the fine arts FOCUS: Artist: Slim Aarons: passive luxury
At 18 years old, Aarons enlisted in the United States Army, worked as a photographer at the United States Military Academy, and later served as a combat photographer in World War II and earned a Purple Heart. Aarons said combat had taught him the only beach worth landing on was “decorated with beautiful, seminude girls tanning in a tranquil sun.”
CMYK, RGB, OMG, FYI
With the RGB color model, pixels on a digital monitor are – if viewed with a magnifying glass – all one of three colors: red, green, or blue.
print-on-demand: techniques
Print on demand (POD) has emerged as a game-changing solution for businesses and individuals looking to tap into the booming world of e-commerce. By allowing customers to order customized prints that are produced only when demanded, POD companies have revolutionized the way products are manufactured, distributed, and consumed. This article dives into the techniques and technology employed by these companies to make print on demand a viable and efficient business model.
MOLAS: textile design & political identity
“Clothes aren’t going to change the world. The women who wear them are.”
– Anne Klein
The Grammar of Ornament
From the universal testimony of travelers it would appear, that there is scarcely a people, in however early stage of civilisation, with whom the desire to ornament is not a strong instinct. Man's earliest ambition is to create . . . to stamp on this earth the impress...
the ART of INDIA
The origin of Indian art can be traced to prehistoric settlements in the 3rd millennium BCE. On its way to modern times, Indian art has had cultural influences, as well as religious influences such as Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Sikhism and Islam.
the fine arts FOCUS: Artist & Author: Paul Klee
Klee has been variously associated with Expressionism, Cubism, Futurism, Surrealism, and Abstraction
the fine arts FOCUS: Artist: Eugène Séguy & the pochoir method
Emile-Allain Séguy, professionally known as E.A. Séguy, was a French designer during the Art Deco and Art Nouveau movements of the 1920s.
the fine arts FOCUS: L’ornement polychrome & Albert Racinet
Albert-Charles-Auguste Racinet (1825–1893)
sashiko, kimonos & history
Textiles say so much about the culture in which they are worn and used. Clothing can immediately identify who we are and what our history is. One can tell eastern v. western, wealthy v. impoverished, northern v southern. Clothing also tells us about the society that...
color in THEORY
red yellow orange green blue violet indigo
Science might yet prevail
“Instead of dyes you could use the structure of the fiber itself, the same for water repellency, rather than coating it, or to make wrinkle-free fabrics.”
elephants | słonie | فیل ها | ਹਾਥੀ | 象 | փղեր | пилдер
Elephants create a stable environment. They're smarter than most of us. They can differentiate between human voices and they are also the largest land animal on the planet. They are, as a species, among a handful who can recognize themselves in a reflection. They also...
violet
Dynamite with a laser beam. This color is a bastard. Stone cold. https://youtu.be/Ya07OLVsiQM Violet is the color of light at the short wavelength end of the visible spectrum, between blue and...
indigo
indigo This is a tricky color to define. Not quite purple. Definitely neither red nor magenta which, by the way, does not exist outside of The Rocky Horror Picture Show‘s cast members. One of the most fascinating aspects of magenta is the debate...
the fine arts FOCUS: William Morris
During his lifetime, Morris produced items in a range of crafts, mainly those to do with furnishing,[265] including over 600 designs for wall-paper, textiles, and embroideries, over 150 for stained glass windows, three typefaces, and around 650 borders and ornamentation for the Kelmscott Press.
blue
blue I’m biased. It’s my personal fave. And it’s deep in so many ways. It’s a very well-meaning and attractive color. It complements just about everything without domineering. An attractive lady or man who carefully escorts the more rambunctious colors, guiding them...
green
a lot to be said for green. Stable, smack dab in the middle of the visible spectrum. Normal, total C average.
yellow
yellow reckless optimism Wow. This color is a two-timing son of a bitch. Cheerful and sunny. Bullshit. Yellow is all about treachery, deceit and falsehoods. Yellow is juane in French (see: jaundiced). Bile is an unholy shade of it. Yellow is the kind of...
orange
orange Red’s buddy, Orange is a pretty laid-back color. No major disturbances. Kinda like that affable jock you knew in high school; a little awkward but OK. (Un)fortunately, its only real affiliations are the fruit and Halloween. Besides being a secondary color...
red
Red light is the slowest, biggest light wave in the visible spectrum
the thing we do not TALK about. WITH YOU. RIGHT NOW. EVEN. THE ‘MU.
Everyone I know is very secretive about their addiction to TEMU. None will go on record.
Climate Stripes
Admit it. It's fun to laugh at global warming deniers. Until you realize that they're serious. Design can be many things, but the thing at which it succeeds best is education. Professor Ed Hawkins (University of Reading) has created a graphic entitled "Climate...
OH WOW.
A masterpiece. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoFbHTrZ1O0&t=89s Again, BrandedSkies.com is awesome.
High Design
We're fascinated by airlines. Specifically, the airlines operating in the period of c. 1950-1980. During those three decades, something extraordinary happened: design and technology merged for the first time with audacious, striking results. Looking backward at the...
fashion is ENVIRONMENTALLY EXPENSIVE. Very EXPENSIVE.
LOOKING good can be bad for the planet. Massive amounts of energy, water and other resources are needed to make clothes. From the pesticides poured on cotton fields to the washes in which denim is dunked, making 1kg of fabric generates 23kg of greenhouse gases on average, reckons McKinsey, a consultancy. Because consumers keep almost every type of apparel only half as long as they did 15 years ago, these inputs go to faster than ever before. More than half of the fastest-fashion items made are chucked away within a year of production. But such rampant retail therapy costs the earth.https://www.economist.com/the-economist-explains/2017/04/11/the-environmental-costs-of-creating-clothes?utm_medium=cpc.adword.pd&utm_source=google&ppccampaignID=17210591673&ppcadID=&utm_campaign=a.22brand_pmax&utm_content=conversion.direct-response.anonymous&gclid=Cj0KCQjwxuCnBhDLARIsAB-cq1oYxEVo5hCbcyps9SNVNujmZqgcSOe79OTnwTlN9HilD6gSLaMpR6waApeeEALw_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds
the GENRES of INDIAN ART
The diversity of the world's largest national population is astounding. 122 languages, including the planet's oldest language: Hindi. 12 religions. 1.408 billion people (est. 2021). 29 states. This pluralism nurtures an insane wealth of art and cultural expression....
a NEW SITE
Thanks for noticing our snappy new look! We started cgk.ink's online presence way back in 2005. We were interested mostly in the burgeoning field of ecommerce and what technologies were being developed to further that goal. "Developing" an ecommerce web site really is...