WWF art competition entry
The WWF’s brief was to use your artistic discipline to visualise how we can best live in harmony with our planet and what our rebuilt future could look like. Taking inspiration from the David Attenborough: A Life On Our Planet film.
My submission was inspired by the Dymaxion map by Buckminster Fuller in 1943. Each of the globe’s 20 face would illustrate how humans can best live in harmony with nature and therefore avoid the climate crisis.
There could be 2 versions of the map.
• The main poster (size can vary from A0 to a billboard)
• Cut-out-and-make model (to sell or give away)
The artwork highlights changes that can make on an individual basis and issues that people can lobby governments to make changes at a national and international levels. The design of the model version would need to have the text and images in different directions to the poster, so that it works once it has been cut out and made 3D.
Dymaxion map faces details
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Map face 1
Collage of adults and kids hand prints in a heart shape
Map face 2
Human skull surrounded by flowers and leaves
Map face 3
Blue watercolour texture with a vortex in the background to illustrate carbon being pulled down into the oceans
Map face 4
Bolts of lightning against the night sky
Map face 5
Octopus, tropical fish and coral from The Great Barrier Reef, and tropical coloured watercolour texture
Map face 6
Orca’s tail from map face 15 would appear on the poster
Map face 7
Penguin
Map face 8
Collage of fruit place underneath a blue water texture to illustrate growing under the water
Map face 9
Adult hands holding a child’s hands, while the child is holding a sapling
Map face 10
Find out more: https://www.bioregional.com/one-planet-living/ Find out more: https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/our-work/activities/climate-change
Map face 11
Collage of vegetable drawings
Map face 12
Photo of bubbles trapped in ice
Map face 13
Section of a world map drawn in 1850 by Wilhelm Ebel to illustrate the range of temperatures across the earth’s surface. These temperatures will before the effects of climate change started, and what we need to aim to get back to. (The original image held by the British Library).
Map face 14
Aerial view of trees and rice fields in Indonesia
Map face 15
Sea colour and texture colour & an Orca
Map face 16
Find out more about design thinking: https://mitsloan.mit.edu/ideas-made-to-matter/design-thinking-explained Find out more about cradle-to-cradle: https://mcdonough.com/cradle-to-cradle/
Map face 17
Rainforest with a (green) basilisk lizard hiding amongst the leaves
Map faces 18 & 19
Wind turbines, solar panels and hydro as examples of renewable energy sources
Map face 20
Green coloured drawing pencils
48 sheets billboards
How the poster might look
A model Dymaxion map
A 3D model version under construction