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eight frames, one archive

the Special Collections

Fine art, Islamic geometry, the art of India, and more — organized into frames you can explore.

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the Journal

fine art + fashion + design creates a new form of ecommerce.

Climate Stripes

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...

High Design

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...

cgk.ink | change

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...