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The Products of Slavery
Slaughtering the Amazon - Update
Swimming with Punks
For a couple of months in early 2009 I worked with Punk Publishing, the people who create the Cool Camping books.
Together we created Wild Swimming Coast. It's a wonderful guide to the best and often very well hidden beaches, pools and caves of Britain's coastline. Featuring regional background and detailed maps, directions to the swims and hundreds of great photos - many by Daniel Start - the author.
I designed, typeset and photo edited the book so I'm very happy it has been well received It's currently being reprinted having received glowing reviews such as this on the Waterstones site, "this beautifully produced book is sure to inspire you to discover and enjoy all that's great about our British coast". I'm off to cool my ego down in the sea. Buy the book, find out more about wild swimming or check out Punk Publishing's other titles. If you have a book you want designing please contact Paul.
Slaughtering the Amazon
I've been working with Greenpeace designing this report which contains all kinds of visually compelling ways to show how Brazil's cattle industry, the world's single largest current cause of deforestation, is linked to supermarket processed meals, leather goods and beauty products. Using a variety of graphic techniques I created the report to appear as if it was pieced together in the field by a researcher; photos pilled up, arrows drawn onto maps showing the trade in cattle, detailed maps display the extent of the deforestation and satellite and aerial imagery side-by-side with ground level photography.
I created the wheel diagrams to succinctly express how big brands were linked to cattle coming out of the Amazon. These diagrams sat alongside maps showing the trade within Brazil and brand logos. To be absolutely sure the bloody nature of the subject matter was conveyed I splattered logos, data and many of the report's pages with graphic blood.
At 140 A4 pages, with original graphics and photography on eavery page, this is by far the longest, most complex and most involved report I've designed. It's also had the most impact. Since it's launch in June 2009 the World Bank has pulled funding from Bertin and many of the brands linked to deforestation have either cancelled or altered the terms of the contacts they have with their Brazilain suppliers. You can read more about the Brazillian cattle industry's impact on the Amazon at Greenpeace's site where you can also download pdfs of the report itself.
