RESIDUAL INKS

This project sprang from the concern of some students of third year of EINA, School of design and art of Barcelona, within the subject of properties and uses of new materials for design. The aim of this subject is to discover not only new materials but new uses for known materials. 

The idea of residual inks emerged after making a research on vegetable-based inks and its environmental impact, one of the latest trends within the print. Already increasingly more because, both, designers and printers try to be more sustainable. 

So, following the line of the already marketed vegetable inks we wanted to take further and try to bring sustainable design to anyone that makes small projects. And it was at this point where we came with the idea of making natural and vegetable inks not from food, but from the waste that we generate at home when we cook. We didn't want to waste food. We wanted to try to generate less waste. 

So that while we create an ink that is non-toxic and which is at the same time edible, so for example you could stamp on edible paper, we reuse all waste that would go away.