We’re excited to announce that The Climate Collection – our unique open-license vault of illustrations on climate, launched together with TED Countdown – is now live! It features illustrations and digital artworks that showcase a hopeful climate future, or have a clear message around the urgency for actionable change.
The works have been selected as part of Artists for Climate – our open call that sought awe-inspiring digital illustrations, graphic design, lettering art, and typography targeting climate change. The illustrations focus on themes including conscious consumption, renewable sources of energy, protection of nature and species, and coexistence.
The project received 2,222 submissions by 1,432 artists from 95 countries. The outstanding work of 50 Selected Artists has been chosen by the Artists for Climate’s esteemed jury panel, including visual artist and author, Oliver Jeffers; the founder of Goodtype, Brooke Robinson; the co-founder and Executive Director of TREEage, Shiv Soin; multidisciplinary artist Bahia Shahab; artist and designer Safwat Saleem, and other acclaimed creatives and experts. Together with the Selected Artists, the initiative also recognized 46 Finalists. In October 2021, Fine Acts will also announce a list of Honorable Mentions.
TED Countdown, a climate initiative powered by TED and Future Stewards to inspire and catalyze action around imaginative and scalable climate solutions, partnered with Fine Acts to curate а free library of artworks under a Creative Commons license to humanize the impacts of the climate crisis and showcase positive solutions. The open call urged artists to employ Fine Acts’ hope-based approach to build a new hopeful visual vocabulary around climate change that sparks climate action.
The resulting Climate Collection is meant to serve as an invaluable resource and tool for non-profits, campaigners, and educators from around the world, working towards climate action. All works are published online under a Creative Commons license on TheGreats.co, our platform for free socially-engaged visuals, and are available for anyone to use and adapt non-commercially, to help shift the global narrative of the climate crisis towards a brighter future.
Visit artistsforclimate.org to browse the collection and put it into action.