SOS Oceano | No blue, no green
The ocean sustains life, yet in Brazil it is mentioned 689% less than forests in climate discourse. As the country prepared for COP30, this silence risked shaping climate priorities. No blue, no green confronted this invisibility through design. In ecology, life on Earth depends on the ocean. Green depends on blue. The same happens in color. We applied this truth to Brazil’s national flag, stripping its blue and green. The altered flag spread across culture, embraced by Indigenous leaders, civil society, pop icons and activists. The movement evolved into a series of six handcrafted silkscreen illustrations that translated the interdependence between marine and terrestrial biomes, mapping endangered species across both ecosystems. In the end, art became policy. The campaign unlocked the creation of Parque Nacional Marinho do Albardão, permanently protecting more than 1.6 million hectares of ocean and the longest beach in the world.
