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- Air-Ink: writing with pollutionThroughout history, soot has been an important ingredient in ink, to make it black. Following this tradition, the company Graviky has developed an ink…
- Recyclable Lignin-Based Ink Enables Circular 3D PrintingResearchers at Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon have developed a fully recyclable, water-based ink for 3D printing. The team makes the ink largely from lignin, a by-product…
- Coffee Waste Transformed into Sustainable Ink for PackagingA Finnish collaboration has pioneered a new material innovation that could transform the packaging industry. Natural Indigo Finland, Tampere University of Applied Sciences (TAMK),…
- Coffee-Roasting Side Streams Provide Colour For Packaging InkA Finnish research and industry collaboration has developed a water-based printing ink using colourants obtained from coffee-roasting side streams. In August 2026, the partners…
- Ink calenderSpanish designer Oscar Diaz, based in London, has designed a calendar that uses the capillary action of ink spreading across paper to display the…
- Ink Printed GlasshouseFor the education park at Ezinge, designed by Atelier PRO architecten, Driessen + Van Deijne created a landmark design with their creative use of…
- GROWinK: Living Ink that RegeneratesGROWinK is a material research project developed by Peerasin Punxh Hutaphaet during the MA Material Futures programme at Central Saint Martins. The project explores…
- ‘Living’ shoes made with microalgae inkNew-York based designer Jessica Thies designed a speculative shoe concept made with biobased printing ink embedded with living microalgae. For her thesis, Thies looked…
- ‘Deep recycled’ panels made of de-inking sludgeScenographer Inga Aleknavičiūtė, in collaboration with German company Zelfo Technology and paper company Leipa Paper, created panels made of de-inking sludge as a form…
- Non-iridescent structural colour inkResearchers at Kobe University in Japan developed non-fading structural colours that do not depend on the viewing angle and can be printed. An object…
- Algae-based Time Lapse InkLiving Ink is an algae-based, environmentally friendly ink alternative you can use to write or sketch a story or image that transforms over time…
- Printing with coffeeDutch start-up CaffeInk developed an environmentally friendly ink as an alternative to black ink made from fossil-based carbon black pigment. Worldwide, coffee is the…
- Monitor your health with a colour-changing tattooPeople get tattoos for a variety of reasons, such a s remembering a person or event, or just for aesthetic reasons. And thanks to…
- Living Façades: Microbial Coatings for Sustainable ArchitectureA team of researchers and companies, including Graz University of Technology, is developing a groundbreaking way to make building façades come alive. The project,…
- The world’s first T-shirt dyed with black algaeInnovative clothing company Vollebak, in collaboration with bioscience company Living Ink, launched what they say is the world’s first T-shirt that is dyed using…
- A sewage sludge-based material as pigment and additiveOurCarbon is a material made energy neutrally from organic waste like sewage sludge. As prove of concept, the company asked various designers and studios…
- Clothing printed with air pollutionFor their latest clothing collection, streetwear company Pangaia teamed up with Graviky Labs, a spin-off company of MIT that makes ink from air pollution,…
- 2.5D printingWe’ve pretty much got used to 3D printing techniques, and 4D is just around the corner. Equally impressive, though often less obvious, is 2.5D…
- A Glare-Free, Energy-Efficient Future for Digital Art DisplaysAt CES 2025, PocketBook introduced the Color ePaper Digital Art Posters, branded under "InkPoster". These displays incorporate E Ink Spectra 6 technology, aiming to…
- Fascinating 3D printing filaments3D printing is the future of manufacturing, whether it’s in construction or for products. This production method deposits only the amount of material needed…
- Hand-woven scarves printed with pollutionDesigner Kelly Gijsen of Maj Studio worked with various weaver families in India to make hand-woven scarves, which are dyed with natural dyes and…
- Printed solar panels to make solar power cheapThe costs of solar panels have declined considerably in recent years, thanks to innovations in the field. However, even now the costs can be…
- Inkless printing makes cartridges superfluousHow often has it happened to you that you need to print something, but your printer says it is out of ink? The startup…
- Colour Changing flowers for your ValentineTo celebrate Valentine's Day, London based designers Bompas & Parr have create several varieties of colour changing flowers. Painted with two different types of thermochromic…
