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- Merck Effect PigmentsMerck Effect Pigments are divided in four specific product ranges: Iriodin, Colorstream, Xirallic and Minatec. Each range offers its own special effect(s), varying from pearl lustre to electrically conductive surfaces which are especially important for antistatic areas.
- Renewable Black Pigment Brings Circularity to Black PackagingBlack remains a popular colour in packaging and product design. It conveys quality, contrast and strong brand identity. However, traditional black plastics present a…
- Bio Pigments AtelierThe project Bio Pigments atelier aims to change this paradigm. It is a project that revolves around creating your own paints and, in this case, a collection of paintings made with micro-algae pigments. All the paintings here exhibited were made using two distinct techniques. The first one is based on the beeswax technique, the second technique is based on using agar-agar.
- 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…
- Primordial PigmentsPrimordial Pigments is an exploration on how pigment-producing bacteria can be utilised in textile block printing. It was born out of an appreciation for the Arts and Crafts movement and a collaboration between living organism and designer.
- Food Waste PigmentWith her graduation project, The Colour of Waste, Sara van Laerhoven wanted to go back to basics and show how special and beautiful colour can be and that it can be natural. By using material research, she found a way to make a natural alternative to synthetic inks to use in graphic workshops. This alternative is made from food waste. In this case from coffee grounds, avocado seeds, red cabbages and orange peels.
- Ignorance is Bliss project repurposes waste metal as pigmentsWith her ongoing Ignorance is Bliss project, designer Agne Kucerenkaite repurposes metal waste from industries as pigments to make new valuable products, including ceramic…
- New solar cells could make use of fungi-produced pigmentResearchers at Oregon State University are working with a highly durable organic pigment called xylidein derived from wood-eating fungi, as an alternative to silicon…
- Inkjet-Printable Structural Colour Enables Durable, Pigment-Free SurfacesA new materials breakthrough from Kobe University could reshape how designers apply colour. Researchers have developed an inkjet-printable structural colour that removes the need…
- Pigment from the seaWith their project Nori Pigment: Pigment from the Sea, Tokyo-based design studio Studio Bycolor explored the black hues of seaweed. Through experimentation in color…
- Bacterial Pigmentation Offers A Biological Alternative To Textile DyeingThe textile industry is looking for ways to reduce the environmental impact of dyeing, one of the most resource-intensive stages of textile production. OXMAN's…
- Turning waste tree bark into pigment and fabricResearcher Charlotte Wenig of the German Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces investigated the potential of tree bark and found it can be…
- Blue Alchemy: the world’s oldest artificial pigment rediscoveredThe first artificial pigment in history, called Egyptian blue, is rediscovered after being lost for almost 1200 years by designer Siba Sahabi. She used…
- Photochromic PigmentsReversacol photochromics can be combined with a wide range of special effect colourants such as light angle-dependent interference pigments, thermochromics, liquid crystals and permanent dyes to produce unusual photochromic effects or colour to colour effects.
- XYMARA Effect PigmentsThe effects created using XYMARA™ effect pigments – silver white, interference, gold and metallic lustre effects are created by the interaction of transparency, refractive index, multiple reflections. Ciba’s effect pigments can be used on their own or together with high-performance colorants to create individual new styles and designs.
- Jeans dyed with natural pigments from EarthcolorsMost blue jeans today are dyed with synthetic indigo dye, while other colours are often made with sulfur dye. The company Archroma created a…
- Ancient Egyptian Blue Pigment Recreated with Potential for Modern Material ApplicationsResearchers at Washington State University (WSU), together with the Carnegie Museum of Natural History and the Smithsonian’s Museum Conservation Institute, have brought Egyptian blue…
