Everyone Ever in the World Poster
Design The Luxury of Protest
“Commissioned by, and available exclusively from Counter-Objects. Everyone Ever in the World is a visual representation of the number of people to have lived versus been killed in wars, massacres and genocide during the recorded history of humankind. The visualisation uses existing paper area and paper loss (die cut circle) to represent the concepts of life and death respectively. The total number of people killed in conflicts (969 million) is ~1.25% of all the people to have ever lived (77.6 billion). The timescale encompasses 3200 BCE to 2009 CE – a period of over 5 millennia, and 1100+ conflicts of recorded human history.
The sequence of dots to the top left of the graph shows the dramatic increase in the number of conflicts over the past 5 millennia (left to right : 3000 BCE to 2000 CE) with the most recent 1000 years being the most violent. The large dot below the graph represents the 1000 years to come : a predicted startling increase in human conflict.
The relative simplicity and intuitive graphical approach of using a die cut area to represent total people killed, lends a direct symbolism to the concept and affords the viewer an instantaneous assessment of the degree to which conflict has shaped human history.”
Peter (the cheeky chap that he is for emailing every decent design blog under the sun about this new poster) has outdone himself yet again with this fantastic piece of plastic which you can buy at the newly launched Counter-Objects.co.uk online design shop ;) . As with all of Peter’s screen printed pieces, K2 really had their work cut out for them!
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