Project title
Envisioning the Greek Landscape: From Thera to Climate Change
Format
Poster (20″ x 30″)
Role
Designer
Context
I don’t usually post things from the cutting room floor, but I really like how this one looks. This was a poster for an environmental conference being organized at Sacramento State, which takes a broad look at the interplay of climate and landscape in Greece from Antiquity to present. The client opted for one that featured an oil painting of Thera, the volcano at the center of Santorini.
Because it was such a broad topic, I decided to play with the sustainability/climate crisis and past/present dichotomies. I homed in on the image of the windmill, a common enough sight on some Greek islands, and a fire bomber. The fire bomber is especially poignant for Greeks because of the growing threat of climate-change-driven wildfires that have been happening in recent years. The gradient, of course, from orange to blue/green suggest the transition from paradise-like idyll (Homer’s wine-dark seas, if you will) and the warming climate.
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