is a blog about design, technology and culture written by Khoi Vinh, and has been more or less continuously published since December 2000 in New York City. Khoi is currently Principal Designer at Adobe, Design Chair at Wildcard and co-founder of Kidpost. Previously, Khoi was co-founder and CEO of Mixel (acquired by Etsy, Inc.), Design Director of The New York Times Online, and co-founder of the design studio Behavior, LLC. He is the author of “Ordering Disorder: Grid Principles for Web Design,” and was named one of Fast Company’s “fifty most influential designers in America.” Khoi lives in Crown Heights, Brooklyn with his wife and three children. Refer to the advertising and sponsorship page for inquiries.
+When Life Gives You Pollution, Make Pollutionade
Air-Ink is the world’s first ink manufactured from air pollution. It was developed at the MIT Media Lab where they fashioned a device that bolts onto a car’s exhaust pipe to capture outgoing soot. The resulting materials are then processed into an ink and packaged as refillable, water resistant markers and in screen printing ink sets. (Presumably the black and white packaging labels are printed with Air-Ink; it would be a shame if they weren’t.) The claim is that “by using 30 ml of Air-Ink, you can negate 45 minutes worth of pollution.” Its creators are currently raising funds on Kickstarter to bring the products to market, and you can learn more at graviky.com.
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