ГООK! Weekly Digest #1

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. Enjoy weekly inspiration articles.

Fashion

Gone are the days of scrutinising labels for producing garments offshore, or questioning a brand’s ethics due to faraway production.Four Australian fashion brands explain why they produce garments offshore

We ask Australian fashion brands how they put the onus on the ways and quantities of making clothing by producing offshore.

Art

Victoria Villasana’s jubilant embroidery weaves threads of life into black-and-white portraits of icons in society who’ve challenged the status quo across politics, music, fashion, activism, art and so on.

Artist Victoria Villasana explores the combination of textile and image in order to mark a space in time with her unique perspective.

Phoebe Guo’s unique project I, Unfolded develops the ideas of identity and personality as it extends and unfolds through all its nuances.

Phoebe Guo is a London- based fashion photographer and filmmaker who takes her master degree in fashion photography at London College of Fashion.

I, Unfolded“Phoebe Guo’s unique project I, Unfolded develops the ideas of identity and personality as it extends and unfolds through all its nuances. ” Phoebe Guo is a London- based fashion...

Design

Meet with THE IMMORTAL PENCIL and you will never need to sharpen! The Eternal Tip – The natural and non-toxic Tin and Bismuth elements join together to create pencil-like marks. This tip hardly wears itself down over time.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/stilform/aeon Despite the prevalence of digital devices and tools, people still have a special place for pens and pencils in their hearts. Pencils, most especially, have been a favourite for centuries when it comes to putting thoughts and ideas on paper, especially because they easily allow you to correct mistakes. The basic pencil, however, has

Photography

In 1961s, Fred Herzog photographed a woman on the street, with just her green skirt and red stockings visible in the frame. In 1972, Helen Levitt photographed kids in New York City, dressed in various shades of yellow and purple. In the 1980s, Martin Parr photographed an ice cream shop in an English beach suburb, right down to the bluish scoops and the many orange cones populating the scene. Colours are playing important role in contemporary photography art but the right colour arrangements of the colour wheel in your frame make big differences.

Fads within the photography industry might come and go, but a good complementary colour scene will always make a photo “pop” off the page (or screen).

Textiles

With synthetic textile production forecast to triple by 2050, there’s a clear need to rethink the constituent elements of what we wear. On climate grounds alone, it won’t be sustainable to vastly expand the production of textiles using fossil fuels. And there’s growing evidence that microfiber pollution threatens wildlife and human health.

The breakdown of synthetic clothing in washers and dryers releases countless tiny plastic fragments into air and water, aggravating the growing microplastic pollution problem. Shown here is a microscopic view of lint from a clothes dryer. Photo courtesy of Rozalia Project.

Featured BOOK

A book for people who hate the very idea of self-promotion, Show Your Work! is the followup to my New York Times bestselling guide to creativity, Steal Like An Artist. If Steal was a book about stealing influence from others, Show is about influencing others by letting them steal from you.

In ten tight chapters, I lay out ways to think about your work as a never-ending process, how to build an audience by sharing that process, and how to deal with the ups and downs of putting yourself and your work out in the world:

  1. You don’t have to be a genius.

  2. Think process, not product.

  3. Share something small every day.

  4. Open up your cabinet of curiosities.

  5. Tell good stories.

  6. Teach what you know.

  7. Don’t turn into human spam.

  8. Learn to take a punch.

  9. Sell out.

  10. Stick around.

This book is not just for “creatives”! Whether you’re an artist or an entrepreneur, a student or a teacher, a hobbyist or a professional, it’s time to stop worrying and start sharing.

Featured PODCAST

A nice conversation with Catherine Price, author of The Power of Fun explains the three components of true fun.

Do you have enough fun in life? Catherine Price, author of The Power of Fun, explains the three components of true fun and how to tap into this powerful, everyday source of joy.

Listen to this episode from Life Kit on Spotify. Do you have enough fun in life? Catherine Price, author of The Power of Fun, explains the three components of true fun and how to tap into this powerful, everyday source of joy.