Plastic Air | Communication Arts
As part of Google Arts & Culture’s Heartbeat of the Earth, this site by Pentagram puts a visual to the ubiquitous, invisible environmental hazard of microplastics. Responses by Talia Cotton, designer and developer; Phil Cox, design and data; and Giorgia Lupi, information designer and partner, Pentagram. Background: Plastic Air is a web-based interactive experience that vivifies a type of pollution most people don’t even know exists: airborne microplastic deposition, the result of ever-increasing global plastic production and consumption. The experience provides a lens through which to s...