Inspired by the angst in the air in high school mess halls, I developed this font for my typography class. The goal of the assignment was to convey a certain feeling or emotion with the font we created (without using ink or any other traditional mediums). "Wasted" captures the absent-minded destructive nature that comes out of the boredom only time at public schools have to offer. It spurs the impulse to carve into your half eaten banana with the useless plastic knife the cafeteria equips the utensil stand with. It makes you scratch your name into the back of the bathroom stall. It encourages you to make a mess of things with conviction. 

After trying my hand with glue, sand, and feathers, I began to feel discouraged with the results I was seeing. The next morning, as I was pouting at the kitchen counter, staring down my beloved banana stockpile, a question popped into my head: why do bananas ripen so damn quickly? You wasteful citizen of the Earth, why can't you eat faster than ethylene levels rise? 

Then it hit me. Use the peels for your project. Dig into their carcasses like an angsty teenager that you technically still qualify to be. Scan it. Mess with it in Photoshop and Illustrator. See what carnage you can recycle into a typeface.