Description of Challenge
Replace toxic textile coloring.German designers Europe, created an “algaemy” color palette that they then printed on a series of cotton clothing items and leather shoes.
Solution
Berlin-based design studio Blond & Bieber found that it’s actually pretty easy to make textile colors without heavy chemical use. All that’s needed is some algae.
But unlike light-stable dyes normally used on clothes, the algaemy colors change over time. A green might fade to a blue, for example.
The designers are calling it ‘living colors’. “We want to apply it as a quality to products—it would be interesting to add value through colors that are changing.”
