ГООK¡ - Weekly Digest #2

August 31, 2022

Hello! This is the midweek edition of ГООK¡ by Ersel Örge — one piece resurfaced from the unlimited archive as timeless uplift for heart, mind, and spirit. You can always catch up on previous issues right here. Enjoy weekly inspirational articles.

Fashion

The rising British label Gent London has convinced artist collaborations and upcycled fashion is the way forward. The best pieces of the upcoming collection will blend sustainability ideals with the viewpoints of international street artists this London Fashion Week.

Gent London's artist-designed, upcycled collection reimagines vintage Burberry trenchcoats for London Fashion Week. Here's why.

FLOWING WATER, STANDING TIME“Robotic clothing reacting to the chromatic spectrum by Ying Gao silicone, glass, PVDF, electronic devices 2019 ” This project was inspired by neurologist Oliver Sacks’...

Art

Kuala Lumpur-based artist Lim Heng Swee has been creating digital artworks of cats camouflaged as landscapes. He decided to blend or hide them inside colourful minimal landscape art.

The Kuala Lumpur-based artist found an echo of mountains and valleys in the feline form

Design

Technology is unavoidably integrated into the fields of art and design. 3D printers are now creating everything from concrete homes to organic biotech material and their popularity is unslowing.

Here are a few tips before starting your own 3D printing.

What was once a hobbyist toy is now a more accessible home-improvement and productivity machine.

Find that perfect colour with our color picker and discover beautiful colour harmonies, tints, shades and tones; input Hex colour codes, RGB and HSL values, and generate HTML, CSS and SCSS styles.

Easily find HTML color codes for your website using our color picker, color chart and HTML color names with Hex color codes, RGB and HSL values.

Photography

Isabelle Chapuis unfolds from the practice of art photography to that of therapeutic photography. These two dimensions nourish and reinforce each other. This sets her apart as an artist and as a therapist. It is a transversal, living positioning, whose heart is the human body, which she perceives as a gateway to self-exploration. The artistic expression seems to her like Ariadne's thread that she unrolls to be as close as possible to the men and women she photographs; these encounters direct her towards her own essence. She perceives the epidermis as a vibrant texture that conceals our memories and the body containing the broad spectrum of our life experiences. She explores the relationship to the body and to the different layers of being through free dance, tantra, yoga and shamanism. This path is supported by the need to create in photography and by the need to evolve personally.

Humanity sits at the heart of Isabelle Chapuis’ photographic practice; in capturing our corporeal forms, she relays complex narratives that relate to both our external...

Textiles

Edwin Keh talks about innovative new materials that “eat” carbon and may enable cotton growing without irrigation, as well as the potential for building the world’s shortest supply chain in two 40-foot containers.

In this interview, McKinsey speaks with Edwin Keh about improving the textile and fashion supply chain, including how to make it more sustainable.

Featured BOOK

Fashion Oracles is tarot/divination cards format informative resource about pioneer fashion designers. Coco Chanel, Karl Lagerfeld and a host of great fashion photographers, models and muses are here to help. Simply select any card from the pack, choose the oracle’s advice on attitude, style or inspiration and any obstacle becomes surmountable. The accompanying booklet features the oracles' fascinating biographies.

Check the link for further review

Featured PODCAST

Synopsis: Every first and third Monday of the month, The Straits Times analyses the beat of the changing environment, from biodiversity conservation to climate change.

The world is now in the midst of the great green transition. Countries are looking for ways to reduce their emissions, and grow the…

Listen to this episode from Green Pulse on Spotify. Synopsis: Every first and third Monday of the month, The Straits Times analyses the beat of the changing environment, from biodiversity conservation to climate change. The world is now in the midst of the great green transition. Countries are looking for ways to reduce their emissions, and grow the...

Synopsis: Every first and third Monday of the month, The Straits Times analyses the beat of the changing environment, from biodiversity conservation to climate change. The world is now in the midst of the great green transition. Countries are looking for ways to reduce their emissions, and grow the...

Webinars

Eventbrite - Fashion Declares presents How to Build Circular & Regenerative models for the Fashion Industry - Wednesday, 7 September 2022 - Find event and ticket information.

As part of New York Textile Month, meet Li Edelkoort online as she unveils

her new book, PROUD SOUTH, for the first time ever! She will be joined by

the Indian designer and textile activist, Kavita Parmar, to discuss

southern identity and artisanal fabric production. This is a 90 minutes

webinar and a copy of the book PROUD SOUTH is included in the ticket price.

Tickets

General Admission $100

includes a copy of PROUD SOUTH