Air-Ink takes what is suffocating the streets, air pollution, and repurposes it to make them beautiful again. It’s living proof of street-smart creativity, from the beer of the streets, for the streets. Beyond the technology, Air-Ink is a brand, a range of products, a creative community, and a campaign to celebrate the cultural power and vibrancy of the streets. As a creative idea, Air-Ink’s impact grows and changes depending on where it lives, and in whose hands. In the hands of artists, it can create thought-provoking pieces or simply beautify their street environments. In the hands of the rest of our conscientious demographic, it’s used to petition for change. This is not the end of the Air-Ink story. Tiger has handed the rights for the brand over to Graviky Labs, to give it the best chance during the next phases of lobbying on the road to its mass implementation.

We partnered with Anirudh Sharma, the inventor of the soot-converting technology, to develop devices that attached to exhausts of ferries, cranes and Tiger Beer delivery trucks. These captured pollution before it reached the air. The harvested carbon was purified and turned into safe, high-quality ink. The ink was then made into a range of pens aimed at use by professional artists and the general public. With Tiger Beer being a premium product, the pens took inspiration from luxury packaging as the design had to look as precious as the ink itself. To give the packaging the integrity to support the idea, everything was kept black and white and printed with Air-Ink itself.

Of the top ten biggest global beers, Tiger is now the fastest growing premium beer in the world. Air-Ink is the brands most hard-working and broad-reaching campaign to date, accelerating the brand’s expansion into new markets and reinvigorating brand perceptions in Asia. In terms of reach, we generated over 2.75 Billion impressions (worth over 4.6M$ US) and over 36 million video views with this campaign. In terms of environmental impact, we have produced 770l of Air-Ink, that’s equivalent to 20,000 hours of CO2 emissions captured before reaching the air. We filled 26,000 pens used to create over 1000 artworks. These artworks will be showcased in Tiger Beer bars as global gallery installation in 2018.