Pink ink || Content || Visual magazine

Pink ink content 

Copy right and publishing 

PINKINK Publishing 

First issue published in 2014

This book has been produced by Lisa Marina Burns, creator of PINKINK

All rights reserved.  Digital art work, text and cover have been produced by Lisa Marin Burns

Sourcing:

Model photographs of this magazine have been sourced from online clothing store  - ASOS

Quotes by Melanie Bowles and Ceri Isaac - Digital Textile Design

Digital photography 

Graphic software 

Printed fabrics 

Kaleidoscopia 

A collection of designs inspired by hues of pink.  Developed using water colour paints to create abstract tones, photographs of these paintings were digitally modified to create a range of patterns with visible reflections and an elusion aspect to them, the kaleidoscope notion. 

Introduction

Painted prints 

Photography

Digital surface design

Patterns and repeats 

Digital textile printing 

The pattern organisation PINKINK has issued the first of many  visual magazines displaying a range of designs suitable for textile and garment decoration. The graphic samples explore avenues of colour separation, repeats and abstract layering to demonstrate a collection of designs suitable for the company's pink-ink ethos. 

The development of the patterns go through a process of experimenting with inks and paints to create unpredicted patterns and colour combinations, followed by photographing and scanning any art work to be digitally altered.  

Software programs such as Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator are the ideal platform for design, these are used as a tool to develop digitally manipulated patterns. The combination of digital and hand craft techniques result in an array of graphic sample designs suitable for use in textiles. 

"On paper, photographs are usually intended as narrative documents, whereas the hybrid use of photography in textile design has begun to create a very different style in which the image is subtle or abstracted."

REPEATS AND PATTERNS IN DIGITAL TEXTILE DESIGN

"ARTISTS AND DESIGNERS HAVE ALWAYS BEEN INSPIRED BY BOTH THE NATURAL AND MAN-MADE TEXTURES AND PATTERNS THAT SURROUND THEM, AND REPEATING PATTERNS HAVE FORMED THE BASIS OF MOST SURFACE DESIGN IN THE DECORATIVE ARTS. "