Design: Second To Nunn
7.12.08 | Ariane |
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Human Life In Perspective
This campaign has a habit (ba-boom) of generating notable atheists with ironic names. As well as our fantastic top donor Simon Bishop (and fellow donor Joanne Vickers), an atheist called Graham Nunn has also contributed. But as well as being the fifth person to donate, he also, entirely for free and quite uncredited by the press, created every single design element for the campaign, from the now-infamous colourful Atheist Bus Campaign slogan, to the ABC t-shirts available here, to the banner for the site you’re reading now. This campaign hasn’t been about big corporations, media buyers or advertising agencies, but hardworking individuals in unrelated jobs who feel passionately about the cause and have volunteered their time and talents to help us. Graham, we salute you!
As well as producing all our design and holding down a ten-hour day job, Graham also started an (often very funny) project in October called My Creative Year, during which he has pledged to produce one piece of design a day for 365 days. As it’s a big, time-consuming project, he produced this GIF (click to enlarge) as one of the pieces, in order to put his endeavour into proper perspective – and succeeded in creating an amazing visual history of the universe, from the Big Bang all the way through to the (eye-wateringly brief) existence of humans. I think this timeline represents just how short our lives really are, and how we have to make the most of them – because in the great scheme of things, they’re over before you can say, “But I’d just started to find happine -”.
December 7th, 2008 at 16:31
Ariane: In the last sentence, shouldn’t “because you can say” be “before you can say”?
December 7th, 2008 at 16:34
It should indeed, eagle-eye. I’m currently holed up with the lurgy so am making mistakes (well, that’s my excuse anyway). Will change it now and then we can all pretend it never happened.
December 7th, 2008 at 17:49
He says that “If the history of Earth was condensed into a single hour, modern humans (200,000 years ago) would only appear in the final 16 hundredths of a second.”
Would love to know how creationists justify that!
December 8th, 2008 at 9:00
A nunncomparable collection of amazing works – difficult to believe they were all spawned by the same mind. Clearly proof of Intelligent Design by a nunnfettered imagination… sorry!
I think what Mrs Morton of the FA meant to type was:
“PS I had a look at your Creative Year project and I think it’s a hit”. I agree.
December 10th, 2008 at 1:35
It’s amazing that the logo, ad, t-shirts and visual ‘look and feel’ of the campaign was created by a guy who works 10 hour days and has time to put up some great pieces every single day!
Hats off to Graham I say!
December 10th, 2008 at 15:06
Josh: I’d join you in the “Hats off to Graham”, but it takes me too long to get my tentacles back inside my balaclava.
There is some terrific stuff on Graham’s site, much of which is genuine art, meaning that I don’t understand it until some helpful commenter explains it.
I particularly like #063 (2nd December), not only because it is a beautiful image, but also because Ariane’s comment had me sniggering for an entire evening.
December 10th, 2008 at 22:19
Balaclava? Simon, if we’re talking headwear I would have thought you’d have a Dutch cap!