When Margarita Talep left to study industrial design at Universidad Diego Portales in Santiago, Chile, and she realized she could focus on the development of materials, her interest to produce sustainable and biodegradable substrates peaked. During one of her workshops, she discovered biopolymers and how bioplastics could be produced from the protein found in milk.

Intrigued, she produced an experimental series with these polymers and created sculptural objects – each piece a different form, texture and color.