State of Nature — a project initiated by Goethe Institut Mumbai, curated by Ravi Agarwal and Curator of Literature Ranjit Hoskote, brings together multiple perspectives that understand and address our present ecological crisis.
It comprised of a group exhibition “New Natures: A Terrible Beauty is Born”, "Dialogues" an interdisciplinary conference of prominent writers, poets and essayists, a series of lectures called "Literatures", "Workshops" and "Conversations".
The visual identity for the project builds on the idea of our current ecological state wherein we distort and bend nature to our will. The primary logotype has been derived from the font Barlow being typographically manipulated to reinforce the concept. Similarly the logotypes of sub-events in the project also go through contortion in bite-sized motion graphics.
The abstract graphics for the visual language have been created from high resolution, macro images of nature printed in black & white on low quality photocopying machines, cut by hand and then scanned to achieve a distorted image.
Team Bombay Duck Designs: Zeenat Kulavoor, Humera Khan and Swapnil Sawant.
2022