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"Imagine if the twigs, leaves, and bits of metal on the streets around you weren't waste but ingredients for a rich palette of unfolding color. Imagine that the oldest tool of communication - ink - could vibrate, grow crystals, or change color on the page. This is the world that Toronto Ink Company founder Jason Logan invites readers to discover in Make Ink. Part art book and part how-to, Make Ink is a color jounrey that redefines our everyday understanding of ink, and, in the process, teaches us to reclaim a lost urban wilderness. It's a journey that emboldens readers to get their hands dirty foraging for color in woodlands, back, alleys, and city parks; mixing pigments in the kitchen; and testing out their homemade colors on paper in the studio. Clear step-by-step (and color-by-color) recipes draw on medieval alchemy, domestic science, and ecological cookery. Rebelling against the mass-produced ink of our industrial age, Logan's Toronto Ink Company makes small-batch inks that are sensitive to place and environment for fans and artists around the world. Featuring full-color artwork and handwritten notes from such collaborators as Dave Eggers, Margaret Atwood, and Marcel Dzama - as well as a conversation with international bestselling author Michael Ondaatje - Make Ink offers a new framework for thinking about the vital connection between ink, language, and art. It will change how you see and interact with the world around you. Toronto Ink Company founder JASON LOGAN is an internationally recognized designer, creative director, author, and artist. His illustrations appear regularly in the New York Times, and his fine art has been exhibited in New York City, Los Angeles, Toronto and the Yukon. His work has been recognized by the AIGA, SPD, and Centre for Social Innovation, and the Canada Council for the Arts. MICHAEL ONDAATJE is a celebrated poet, novelist, editor, and filmmaker, best known for his 1992 Booker Prize - winning novel, The English Patient. "

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Make Ink: A Forager’s Guide to Natural Inkmaking by Jason Logan

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Hardcover, 192 pages, ISBN: 9781419732430
Published by Abrams, 2018

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A 2018 Best Book of the Year — The Guardian

The Toronto Ink Company was founded in 2014 by designer and artist Jason Logan as a citizen science experiment to make eco-friendly, urban ink from street-harvested pigments. In Make Ink, Logan delves into the history of inkmaking and the science of distilling pigment from the natural world. Readers will learn how to forage for materials such as soot, rust, cigarette butts, peach pits, and black walnut, then how to mix, test, and transform these ingredients into rich, vibrant inks that are sensitive to both place and environment. Organized by color, and featuring lovely minimalist photography throughout, Make Ink combines science, art, and craft to instill the basics of ink making and demonstrate the beauty and necessity of engaging with one of mankind’s oldest tools of communication.

Praise for Make Ink: A Forager’s Guide to Natural Inkmaking:

“Logan’s artful test sheets (above) hold their own alongside works by Marcel Dzama, Margaret Atwood, Leanne Shapton and others, all made with his inks.”— Wall Street Journal

“Once you start making ink, the world never quite looks the same.”— Martha Stewart

“There are loads of craft books so pretty you might happily put them on your coffee table and never do anything more than flip through them admiringly. Others you actually crack open and make things from. As beautifully written as it is photographed and designed, this one begs to be read from cover to cover, like a good essay collection, whether or not you ever attempt to make your own inks…”— Fringe Association

About the author:

Jason Logan

Toronto Ink Company founder Jason Logan is an internationally recognized designer, creative director, author, and artist. His illustrations appear regularly in the New York Times and his fine art has been exhibited in New York City, Los Angeles, Toronto, and the Yukon. His work has been recognized by the AIGA, SPD, the Centre for Social Innovation, and the Canada Council for the Arts.

(Credits: Publisher’s description has been retrieved from BiblioShare. Front and back cover photo by Jenn Collins.)