Water and access to it directly affects our quality of life. Not only in terms of satisfying our basic needs, but also the very contact with it. Children and those a little older are reminded of this by a mural completed by Traffic Design.
In Poland, water is increasingly "returning to the living rooms". In the public discussion, we are discussing more widely the inclusion of rivers in appropriate forms of protection, the restoration of aquatic ecosystems, or bringing underground rivers and canals in cities to the surface, because we often forget that there is water flowing under our feet, which several centuries earlier contributed to the founding of the first settlements. Returning to the water is becoming an increasingly common demand - we want to be on beaches, boulevards and waterfronts. Contact with water is becoming an important factor of everyday life for us - we are happy when we can use it, when we have close access to water.
The author of the project is acclaimed illustrator Gosia Herba
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The return to water is also expressed in the latest mural completed by Traffic Design on the wall of School Complex No. 6 in Gdynia. As the creators point out, it was created as a result of workshops with students and discussions with the school community.
fascinating world of water
The author of the project is acclaimed illustrator Gosia Herba. We may know her designs from many children's books, but also from world magazines such as The New Yorker, The New York Times and Der Tagesspiegel. The mural depicts two children playing by the water surrounded by animals we associate with the water area. The mural was executed using a two-tone color scheme of light blue and black.
The project was carried out as part of the Bloomberg Foundation's Asphalt Art. The mural was created by artists from the Traffic Design group, and financed by the City of Gdynia and Cavatina Group.
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The mural depicts children playing by the water. One of them is basking on a stone, the other is diving. It's a symbolic bridge between silence (water) and sound (air). I was also inspired by the drawings of the school's students," says the author of the project, Gosia Herba.
The project was carried out as part of the Bloomberg Foundation's Asphalt Art. The mural was created by artists from the Traffic Design group, and financed by the City of Gdynia and Cavatina Group.
The mural depicts two children playing by the water surrounded by animals we associate with the water area.
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the return to the waterfront is becoming more and more visible
The Gdynia mural is not the only sign of the progressive changes of the return to the waterfront. The motif of the sea and water has repeatedly appeared in Traffic Design's activities. However, the return to the water is a process that imposes a broader change in thinking - an understanding of the role of water and its impact on our everyday life. Culture and design have as much importance in this as science and knowledge.
The mural was realized by Traffic Design on the wall of School Complex No. 6 in Gdynia.
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