Global Warming

For my project, I am looking at Global Warming as it's obviously quite a 'hot' (sorry for the pun) topic at the moment. Looking into the more immediate effects such as raising temperatures and sea levels as opposed to the long term effects such as the gulf stream effectively stopping and plunging Europe into another Ice Age which is basically end game.

I saw Al Gore's film 'An Inconvenient Truth' a couple of years ago showing one of his lectures from the worldwide tour and was amazed at the quality and clarity of information design used during the lecture that made all the complicated truths and mind boggling statistics so simple. However, I got annoyed with not being able to see all the various graphs and pictures in the film as clearly as I would like. I managed to get a copy of the book last week which shows all the slides (and more) from the lecture brilliantly and would strongly recommend this book as an invaluable book for research for anyone doing this topic of who has even the slightest interest in Information Design as you will not see clearer examples anywhere else - other than the underground map of course ;-)


For the project I am thinking of tackling the issue from more of more tongue in cheek perspective to what has been done before. I am thinking of the idea of looking at the more humorous effects of global warming - such as Britain as the new 'sunny Spain' summer resort and a range of stamps showing this.

I would like to incorporate an interactive element to the stamps whereby the stamp purchaser could arrange the stamps to make a bigger picture showing the more serious truth.