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Posted by RL Tillman on September 2nd, 2010 |  This September Mixed Greens presents a window installation by Scott Kiernan, “CMIKB,” which apparently is structured around Yves Klein’s International Klein Blue and Leap into the Void projects.
Kiernan discovered that [International Klein Blue] is impossible to reproduce digitally. However, the internet provided a wealth of approximations and as a result, Kiernan set out to create IKB in CMYK. He estimated what percentage cyan, magenta, yellow and black actually make up IKB. The result is the three identical images that comprise the window installation—one printed only in cyan, one in magenta, and the other in yellow (there is no black in IKB). Each print uses only the percentage of pigment that IKB would use.
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Posted by RL Tillman on April 17th, 2010 | Fake Flowers in Full Color was a 2008-2009 collaboration between Hans Gremmen and Jaap Schereen. They set out to make a real-world, 3-D color separation. Their starting point was an image of flowers in a vase.
 Color separations of the photo were produced digitally, and reconstructed by hand in three dimensions.
 The analog color separations were then used to re-print the photo.
A book documenting this project is available for purchase here.
Posted by Jason Urban on March 19th, 2010 | Continued from Flatstock 24 (Part 1).
 Can’t go wrong with The Small Stakes (Oakland, CA). I don’t know The Vaselines but this is a beautiful poster.
 A wall of The Small Stakes.
 Lalaland Posters had some amazing work by Kii Arens. Arens’ did this Radiohead/Haiti poster a few months back.
Continue reading Flatstock 24 (Part 2)
Posted by RL Tillman on March 18th, 2010 | Our Senior Martha Stewart Living Correspondent filed this dispatch from the April issue:
“Three overlapping dots stenciled onto eggs beget a new batch of hues. The design pays homage to CMYK printing, which combines cyan, magenta, yellow and ‘key’ black to yield a spectrum.”
That CMYK lesson may not even be necessary, given the current prevalence of print in the public consciousness. (Although I do appreciate the precise description of what the “K” stands for.)
Posted by Jason Urban on March 2nd, 2010 | 
Steve MacDonald (aka Ramblin Worker) is a San Francisco-based artist known for his fiber-based artwork. His work straddles the realms of art, craft, and design. This embroidered Campbell’s soup cans caught my eye and seemed worth a post. Are they printed? No. But are they print-related? I would say yes. In addition to referencing Warhol, these works can be filed under The Cult of CMYK. Though MacDonald isn’t strictly adhering to the four-color system (note the inclusion of light green), he does appear to be quoting the language of print, at least in part, and filtering it through textiles.
 You can see MacDonald’s work in his solo show at Fuse Gallery in NYC from April 24th to May 15th.
A few more pics after the jump…
Continue reading Ramblin Worker
Posted by Jason Urban on February 3rd, 2010 | 
Evelyn Kasikov’s Printed Matter project is an intense investigation of the relationship between craft and design. Kasikov does a good job of explaining the project on her site so head there for more details. Here’s a brief bit about her CMYK embroidery…
Printed Matter is a project about craft within the context of graphic design. My aim is to bring together craft and modern technology, and explore the possibilities for printing processes to be integrated with textile techniques. My main influences come from Swiss typography, Dutch book design and Estonian language – in no particular order. By mixing high and low tech, screen based media with slower crafts, I investigate different ways of seeing and experiencing visual messages.
This seems like part of a larger movement- the fetishization of print language. As processes like CMYK printing fall out of commercial favor, they take on some greater meaning. What was once a mechanical and/or sterile imaging process now relates to the human hand and our sense of craft. Thirty years ago, would an artist/designer have tried to create a link between CMYK printing and hand embroidery?
(via SwissMiss) Thanks for the tip, Jaime.
Posted by amze on January 6th, 2010 | 
What if instead of wasting tons of single color cans of spray paint, graffiti artists and other spray paint enthusiasts took a note from the printing industry and switched to single can with refillable CMYK paint chambers? Couldn’t tons of waste be avoided? This was the starting premise for the South Korean Design team of Young-suk Kim, Jin-ho Oh, Yong Lee and Woo-sik Kim, who came up with the snappy prototype you see here. You’all note the two dials near the top of the can, one adjusts hue and the other for brightness.
To read more about this award winning design follow these links to gizmodo, the Red Dot Design Awards and here to read an article at Yanko Design magazine.
I can’t wait to see what they do with the paint brush, but perhaps I’m getting ahead of myself.
To see more concept images follow the jump.
Continue reading CMYK Refillabe Spray Paint Can
Posted by Jason Urban on August 11th, 2009 | It seems a bit unfair to declare an end to CMYK jokes without weighing the ramifications. Think of the t-shirt industry! In these times of economic hardship, would we at Printeresting be right in striking a blow against the healthy and thriving economy of print fashion?
 
Continue reading CMY Not?
Posted by Jason Urban on July 27th, 2009 | Don’t get your credit card out just yet… it’s only a prototype by Sergey Safronov and Roma Lubimov.
Posted by RL Tillman on July 14th, 2009 | I would like to declare an Official End to our universal enthusiasm for CMYK jokes.
This fad is over. It’s time for us to move on:
*DISCLAIMER: Any CMYK jokes made before this date, or in-progress before this date, will be excused under a “Grandfather Clause.”
UPDATE: Evidence provided here.
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This September Mixed Greens presents a window installation by Scott Kiernan, “CMIKB,” which apparently is structured around Yves Klein’s International Klein Blue and Leap into the Void projects.
