Year: 2017

Tools: Krita, Adobe Photoshop

I was asked to create a poster for ELSI's (Earth-Life Science Institute) 5th Symposium. Still didn't know anything about margins, but I'm happy with how it turned out considering it landed on my desk last-minute.

Luckily the Symposium Organising Committee (SOC) already had an idea I could run with: the parable of the blind men and the elephant, but with the blind men representing researchers. The SOC wanted to communicate how staying within one's own field can limit research, whereas interdisciplinary science can better form a more complete picture. From here it was just a question of conveying the idea of the elephant as a metaphor for everything that could be explored in research concerning the origins of life and the Earth. Instantly thought of The Big Bang and space, and so the galactic elephant was born.

I also created a text-free version below.