Second Sea wins Graphic Design of the Year
Our work for Second Sea has won the Graphic Design of the Year category at the Dezeen Awards 2023.
In time for the COP27 climate summit, web-app Second Sea calculates how much coastal cities are owed in climate reparations to make up for the destruction wrought by rising sea levels.
The Second Sea calculator makes use of real-world data from 136 cities from Athens to Zhanjiang, charting what sea level rise they can expect by the end of the century. Created in collaboration with Adrian Lahoud and his team at the Royal College of Art, Sudanese diplomat Lumumba Di-Aping, and developer Made by On, the platform then generates an invoice showing the estimated cost of the resulting damages, which users can share on social media.
"We have focused on sea level rise and coastal cities for this iteration of the platform because that is where we have the most robust data," Lahoud explained. "Sea level rise will lead to the displacement of communities, loss of wetlands, reduced biodiversity, flooding, subsidence and increased salinity, and will disproportionately burden future generations and those in already vulnerable developing economies with debts and harms not of their own making."
"It's incredibly hard to fathom the difference between ten million and five billion, they're all just big numbers," Accept & Proceed's Partner Matthew Jones said. "Within the platform, we contextualise what these mean in real terms, such as Jeff Bezos's wealth increase over a day or the cost of hosting the Eurovision song contest."
Congratulations to our design team, the team at Royal College of Art (Adrian Lahoud, Sam Jacoby and Benjamin Mehigan) and our digital partners ON.