Bioplastics on a Rainbow Spectrum - Desiree van Dam

How to color your bioplastic by only using natural ingredients which are easily accessible?

How to color your bioplastic by only using natural ingredients which are easily accessible? This project is all about creating the seven basic colors to be used in gelatin-based bioplastics. The iterationswere always based on the same recipe, with natural products that are easily accessible, like products you can find in a supermarket and are not all too expensive. To name a few, with red cabbage you can make purple and with beetroot you can make red. Different ways and products have been looked at to get these colors, to see what works best and to see what it does to the bioplastic. In addition, tests have also been carried out to see what affects the bioplastic and what does not. This resulted in about 40 different kinds of bioplastic with all kinds of colors, that will help designers getting more freedom in their work and give others more inspiration and variety for applications.

Research zine

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Bio

I'm Desiree van Dam, a 3rd year Communication and Multimedia Design student, a UX-Designer and UI-designer studying at Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences. With this project I hope to inspire others to think about alternatives for using plastic, by proposing natural and accessible ways to color bioplastics.