How I Made This: Jason Logan’s Natural Inks

Biking through a Toronto park in 2014, artist and designer Jason Logan noticed a sign at the base of a tree identifying it as a black walnut. The name struck him. Years before, he’d bought a bottle of black walnut ink in New York; now he wondered if he could make his own. But it was summer, and the walnuts looked like limes high in the branches. So he waited. And watched.
By late autumn, he was stuffing his backpack full of fallen walnuts in their still-green hulls.
“I remember their