illustration ^ Ivan Caro
Design to Protect Elephants.
Our philosophy: Make a contribution to the fight. Any fight. The one that you believe in.
Design to Protect Elephants believes that there should be elephants. That’s it. We want elephants to exist and we are committed to raising awareness and funds to assist WildAid in their mission.
We have been generously funded by the Kirkpatrick Foundation. Over the course of these grants, which have deeply benefited UCO Design students, the surrounding community and WildAid, we have created a poster collection and a multidisciplinary performance called Flight of the Elephant. The purpose of the posters and the performance is to harness the power of design and partnerships to raise awareness and funds to halt the slaughter of elephants for ivory.
All designs created for Design to Protect Elephants engage our local community, designers and design students in the advocacy for animal rights and the power of design and partnerships.
What is Flight of the Elephant? A project partnering UCO student design studios Clocktower and InkTank with WlldAid (an International animal rights organization) and professional design studios to harness the power of design to halt the slaughter of elephants for ivory. It’s a way to get involved to raise funds and awareness about the fact that the African Elephant is facing extinction. Is it sad? No, it’s funny, poignant, touching, and engaging. Will people like it? Yes, and it’s a way to engage new audiences! Is it playable? Yes! this can be played by musicians at a variety of skill levels. Will you send me the slides? You betcha! This comes as a plug and play system!
THIS LOOKS AWESOME, WHAT ELSE CAN ACCOMPANY THE PERFORMANCE? The original performance was accompanied by the sculptural work of Stacey Holloway. https://www.designtoprotect.org/
Design to Protect Poster Exhibition
The poster work culminated in an exhibition of professional and students work.
Design to Protect Elephants, Phase 1: a project partnering UCO student design studios Clocktower and InkTank with WlldAid (an International animal rights organization) and professional design studios to harness the power of design to halt the slaughter of elephants for ivory.
Brian Winkler, Robot House
Students and professionals created posters and Instagram posts to engage our local community, designers and design students In the advocacy for animal rights and the power of design and partnerships. All proceeds from poster sales were sent to WildAid. All designs were also provided to WildAid for their future use.
