- CollegeCentral Saint Martins
- CourseBA (Hons) Graphic Communication Design
- Graduation year2023
Redesigning the Anthropocene is an ongoing exploration into design's ability to curate accessibility and curiosity into environmental data. Through a variety of storytelling methods; such as publication, print and video, ‘Redesigning the Anthropocene’ looks at challenging how we view the climate crisis. Using medium as message, I am able to act in collaboration with nature, through methods of print such as; using hand-made seaweed inks and using the medium of cyanotype, once used to document plant species in 1843, I am able to employ natural processes such as the UV light and water plants need to grow. Exploring themes of collaboration, conversation and community within this project I am able to expand how I approach storytelling briefs, allowing my work to hold senses of empathy and consideration.
The Climate Crisis impacts us all, in a varying scale we are united as a community. I have been able to appreciate the importance in understanding data which is unaccessible to the public, this project aims to showcase the power of communication design in environmental data accessibility.
Final work
The IPCC and Me
Forming into a series of outcomes ‘The IPCC and Me’, explores physically interlinking art, design and environmental science through manipulating a current PDF document on the impact of the Anthropocene. Using Cyanotype within both the hardcover of the publication and spreads of the 'Dictionary' booklets, UV light and Water are used to replicate natural processes. The design holds a jagged feel, replicating the unease of the climate crisis, and the font is 'Climate Crisis' an open sourced type based on IPCC data.
Whereas, ‘Nervous and Afraid’ explores outcomes through conversation, the conversations first formed through a series of recorded conversations with practitioners regarding their ecological projects, and designs impact on data accessibility. Latterly, this developed into a double ended concertina exploring the interlinks within each conversation. Printed using natural inks of seaweed and charcoal the concertina served as a physical representation of the natural conversations opening up and developing as time progressed.
Research and process
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