the 2025 SUMMER TRAVEL EDITION

Life is going well when your biggest decision is: mountain lake or beach? Mediterranean or Pacific? Difficult  choices, certainly.

cgk.ink has curated a boldly designed inspired by those halcyon, summer days.

Eye-catching swimwear, loungewear that overflows with elegance; footwear that distinguishes and travel accessories that set you apart.

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“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.”

—Mark Twain

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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...

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....

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.”

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William Morris

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.

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