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...