From designer and artist Jason Logan, founder of the Toronto Ink Company — a citizen science experiment to make eco-friendly, urban ink from street-harvested pigments. Make Ink delves into the history of inkmaking and the science of distilling pigment from the natural world.
Readers learn how to forage for materials such as soot, rust, cigarette butts, peach pits, and black walnut, then how to mix, test, and transform them into rich inks that are sensitive to both place and season. Organized by color, with recipe variations for shades like Vine Charcoal, Pokeberry, and Silvery Acorn Cap. The final third of the book turns to art, showing Logan's own ink tests alongside work by Margaret Atwood, Dave Eggers, and others who have painted with his inks.
Chapters cover a forager's checklist, what ink is and how it is made, a basic natural ink recipe, colors and recipes, the ground rules of natural inkmaking, and testing ink on paper. Named a Best Book of 2018 by The Guardian.
- By Jason Logan, with a foreword by Booker Prize-winning author Michael Ondaatje
- Photography by Lauren Kolyn
- Hardcover, 192 pages, 200 color photographs
- 7 ⅜" × 9 ¼"
- Published September 2018 by Abrams Books
- ISBN 978-1-4197-3243-0
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