Japanese designer Rikako Nagashima looked to ink stains on printer paper when creating this abstract curtain collection for Kinnasand that addresses the problem of waste.
Presented at Milan design week, which takes place this year between 9 and 14 April, the SCRAP_CMYK collection features streaks of uneven colour based on the patterns found on scraps of paper leftover from the offset printing process.

"When producing graphic materials, scrap papers ? which are called yaregami ? are produced during the printing process," said Nagashima. "We used the ink stains on them as a motif for this textile collection."
Nagashima came up with the idea after observing the sheer amount of inky paper leftover at her graphic design studio in Tokyo on a daily basis.
"When we run the printer, the printouts are inevitably blurry at the beginning. Usually, we perform an initial run until the printer gets stabilised by feeding paper to absorb excessive inks," she said.
"We have a large stock of yaregami at our office. So we picked out some attractive colours and shapes out of these, which we scanned and used as the basis to create textile designs," she explained.

The fabric used in the collection is made of recycled polyester produced from plastic bottles. Each piece is printed with irregular repeats of a rectangular pattern and features vivid accents of blues, pinks and yellows.
These correspond with the cyan blue, magenta pink and yellow of the CMYK...