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1. Designs for digital
garment/textile printing industry
By Ivo Arrey Mbongaya
©2019 African Centre for Community and Development. All Rights Reserved.
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Emails: arreymbongayaivo@gmail.com or oldboyarret@yahoo.com

2. Introduction.
• As the title of this work intimates, this collection comprises of artistic designs targeting the digital garment printing industry
by this author. They are an inspiration from his group of works titled “flexible art designs” with a post modern digital and
illustrative twist which perfectly places them as unique works for the digital garment/printing industry hence relevant to
furniture, textiles, visual arts on both textiles and other surfaces as well as to art/photography as a whole.
• Indeed the company Smithers Pira in her report “The Future of Digital Textile Printing to 2021, forecasts an average annual
growth rate of 12.3 per cent and expects the global market to more than double in value over the next five years, from nearly
$2 billion in 2016 to more than $4 billion in 2021 (all figures in Canadian dollars)”.( See
https://graphicartsmag.com/articles/2017/02/future-digital-textile-printing/).
• By this same strand of reasoning new markets like Africa are suddenly very important to the global sector as she offers unique
and unexplored designs for printing, cheap and affordable general and sometimes skilled labour, a reasonable chunk of the
world’s middle class as well as 1.2 billion people now living within her boundaries. This number is earmarked it must be
noted to double by 2040 while other tech ecosystems are also slated to be reaching their full growth about the same juncture.
Africa can indeed boast of over 400 million strong middle class with a capacity to spend close to 1.5 trillion US dollars yearly.
Therefore ready consumers of textiles /prints are abound in the region hence invaluable to the industry.
• This collection is therefore celebrating the zeit geist and reiterating the availability of myriad works of this author for textile
and other forms of printing. It is celebrating an African business arena which if carefully understood and exploited will create
so many jobs for youths, women and other sub-populations presently affected by high levels of poverty and joblessness.
• This in a way tallies well with the view of Mike Horsten, GM of Marketing at Mimaki EMEA who thinks “there is a big change
happening in textile printing. This is being driven by a number of factors, including the advancements in digital textile printers
and inks, as well as the demand for shorter runs, faster cycle times and more customized textile-based products for home and
fast fashion. Digital textile printing addresses these market requirements and offers a new, greener way to produce
outstanding textiles”. This also must be considered as a door into the heart of the so far dormant endogenous giant digital
African printing industry that can be a major winner for futuristic and practical impact investors.

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11. Conclusion
• The future in post modern designs for the garment/textiles printing
industry as demonstrated in this collection are very creative and dynamic.
They are friendly to modern inks, printers and the pace of the digital age.
• They marry with urban gigs and celebrate rural uniqueness.
• In this light, this author firmly positions his works to react with diverse
media and users but more importantly visual arts and the printing
industry. A graphic tool invaluable to modern businesses and to the
escapisms of the soul.
• Ivo Arrey Mbongaya has myriad works like those in this little contraption
and he is available for exhibitions, artistic residency, work, commissions
etcetera to bring his escapisms on the breakfast table of human escapisms
and artistic consumption. Yes on the table of the garment printing industry
in Africa and worldwide. His works are available to transform your
interiors into the wonder lands they deserve.
• Investors in relevant industries are called upon to taken a proven chance.
The drums are playing.

12. Author: Ivo Arrey Mbongaya

13. ©2019 African Centre for Community
and Development. All Rights Reserved.