designing the change

The Heart Of The Alps, The Incredible Dolomites Mountain Range, In Photographs

Professional landscape and architecture photographer from Cologne, Germany Kilian Schönberger ventures into the wild heart of the Alps and captures the unrestrained beauty of the Dolomites rock formations. The beautiful and imposing mountain range dotted by woods with a hidden melting pot of culture and history spanning across many Mediterranean communities and several decades dating back to WWI.

Washed Away

Abstract Animated GIFs Capture Nature’s Beauty

Unreal Pictures of Ice and Water

Artist Zaria Forman travels thousands of miles to collect source material for drawings that portray the beauty and fragility of the world. Her goal? To help people experience the sublimity of these landscapes, so they’ll be inspired to protect and preserve them.

Zaria Forman has nothing against photography. On her expeditions to the furthest corners of the Earth, she takes hundreds of photos in her efforts to document places afflicted by climate change. But that’s just the beginning of her process. Once she’s back in her studio, these images are transformed into something much more personal, as she creates hyper-realistic pastel drawings designed to express her own emotional and visual experience of these glaciers. Below, she sheds some light on her creative process, talks about the dangers of climate change, and shares some iceberg lingo for good measure.

2,000 square miles of ice just broke in the Bering Strait

It was a sad day in the Bering Strait on March 12, when a 2,000-square-mile chunk of ice decided it was time to break up with the mass it was likely attached to. It took just two days for the split to fully occur, and thanks to NASA’s Worldview near real-time satellite imagery program, we can watch the whole thing like a cringeworthy reality TV breakup. This is not an isolated incident.

A Visualisation of the Recent Rapid Change in Temperature.

Discovering textures and melting them together