Jason Logan is an internationally recognized designer, creative director, author, and artist. His illustrations have appeared 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 American Institute of Graphic Arts, The Society of Publication Designers, the Centre for Social Innovation, and the Canada Council for the Arts. His most recent book, How to Be a Color Wizard was published last year with MIT Kids. He is also the author of Make Ink: A Forager’s Guide to Natural Inkmaking, included in The Guardian’s list of best books of 2018. Logan’s work and colour network is featured in The Colour of Ink a documentary which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival is now available on Amazon Prime. You can follow his ink explorations on his instagram and weekly newsletter.
Founded in 2014, The Toronto Ink Company is a collaborative, citizen-science experiment in harvesting colour from built, wild and hybrid landscapes. The Toronto Ink Company works on all scales, from bottled pigments and ink tests to collaborative projects and workshops with scientists, Indigenous communities, poets, artists, designers, filmmakers, architects, and city builders. The inks have been tested by artists, illustrators and experimenters around the world, from Berlin, New York, Paris, Los Angeles and Japan to a National Geographic icebreaker in the Arctic. Custom inks have been commissioned by Harley Davidson, Row 7 Seeds, the University of Michigan Press, WeTransfer and DC Comics, among others.