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Colours are a distinct expression of Greenpeace's personality. Consistent use of our core colours helps to maintain our brand presence and inject energy and depth into our storytelling methods. These colours embody our values, spirit and conviction. To ensure consistency, colours should always utilise the appropriate values shown below.

Green is Greenpeace's main colour - The Greenpeace green (#66cc00) is most commonly used in the logo and features prominently as an emphasis colour in both our print and digital communications. It is not essential that you use this colour in all of your communications, but be aware that the logo should only ever appear in this green, black or white.

Dark green, white, light grey, and dark grey are secondary, neutral colours. They are good for backgrounds, and balancing out the brighter, more intense colours.

Red is our main accent colour. Use it for buttons, highlights, and calling attention to the most important parts of your design.

Aqua, blue and yellow are secondary accent colours. When you're already using all the other colours, a high-contrast colour from this list can provide variety and give you more alternatives to work with.

Designing for sufficient colour contrast

The next thing to crack is ensuring that the foreground (text) and background colours you use provide enough contrast to allow colour-blind users or those using a monochrome screen to view information. This is equally important when designing for text over the top of an image or video sequence. As a general rule, lighter colours like white and yellow should only be used on very dark backgrounds and darker colours like black and blue should only be used on light or white backgrounds. If in doubt, you can check your colour choices .

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Colour Usage | Greenpeace Australia Pacific

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Colours are a distinct expression of Greenpeace's personality. Consistent use of our core colours helps to maintain our brand presence and inject energy and depth into our storytelling methods. These colours embody our values, spirit and conviction. To ensure consistency, colours should always utilise the appropriate values shown below.

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Hi there. I'm David McCandless, creator of this site and author of two infographic mega-tomes, Information is Beautiful (2009) and Knowledge is Beautiful (2014).

I've created a lot of data and information visualizations. Around 540 over six years. (An eye-bleeding, marriage-crumpling average of 1.7 per week). There are 196 in my new book, Knowledge is Beautiful ( out now). Yes I sometimes have dataviz dreams.

This graphic visualises the four elements I think are necessary for a successful "good" visualization. i.e. one that works.

All four elements in his graphic seem essential. With just two, you get something prototypical and sketchy - which is okay if you're at an early stage. With three, the end result is strangely lacking.

See how, interestingly, if you combine information & function & visual form without story, you get "boring". Something that looks good but isn't that interesting.

Similarly, if you combine visuals, information & story without considering functionality and your goal, you get something useless.

These elements form the backbone of my process and also what I teach in my dataviz workshops.

I'm not really a follow-this-system type of person. But this is just me thinking aloud in visuals. Let me know your thoughts and reflections. Email or comment below.

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A while back I praised a piece by Reuters showing the scale of the Rohingya humanitarian crisis in Myanmar and Bangladesh. A few days ago, Reuters graphics launched a similar project revealing "the world's addiction to plastic bottles".

Marco Hernández, one of the authors, told me that he modeled a plastic bottle in , and then transformed it into a particle that the software could duplicate at the required pace hundreds of thousands of times.

3D software such as Cinema 4D lets you simulate real-world forces such as wind or gravity. , the tool I use, has similar capabilities; that's how I designed this virtual Galton quincunx a while ago. Marco said that it took nearly a week to the opening animation.

I really like the pictorial comparisons in the piece. This is what would happen if we could pile up the 4 trillion bottles of water consumed worldwide in the past decade:

The plastic bottles sold worldwide since 2009 would tower above New York's Manhattan Island. Data from Euromonitor International shows that more than 480 billion of these bottles were sold last year alone. The 2018 annual figure of almost 482 billion is up more than 50% since 2009. The pile visualised below is around 2.4 km high and dwarfs the glittering skyscrapers of the Financial District at the tip of Lower Manhattan.

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By the time you're finished reading this sentence, tens of thousands of plastic bottles will have been sold around the world.

The ubiquitous plastic bottle has proven to be a versatile and cost-effective vessel for everything from water to household cleaning products. Despite this undeniable utility, it's becoming harder to ignore the sheer volume of waste created by the world's 7.5 billion people.

Today's data visualization from Simon Scarr and Marco Hernandez at Reuters Graphics puts into perspective the immense scale of plastic bottle waste by comparing it to recognizable global landmarks, and even the entirety of Manhattan.

Plastic Wasted in One Hour
Original image from REUTERS/Simon Scarr, Marco Hernandez.
Every hour, close to 55 million bottles are discarded worldwide. When accumulated, the pile would be higher than the Brazilian Art Deco statue, Christ the Redeemer.

Towering over Rio de Janeiro at 125 feet (38 meters) and with arms outstretched to 98ft (30m), the statue still pales in comparison next to the combined plastic bottle waste over this time period.

Plastic Bottle Waste: Daily and Monthly
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In the span of a day, over 1.3 billion bottles are discarded. If you were to take the elevator up the Eiffel Tower (which has a total height of 1,063ft or 324m), you'd reach the tip of this pile about halfway up.

Fast forward this by a month, however, and it's a different story. The Eiffel Tower seems like a figurine next to a heap of approximately 40 billion tossed plastic bottles.
Original image from REUTERS/Simon Scarr, Marco Hernandez.
Scaling this up, data from Euromonitor International reveals that over 481 billion plastic bottles are now wasted annually.

Accumulated, this would dwarf even Dubai's famous Burj Khalifa, the world's tallest structure at an impressive 2,722ft (830m).

A Decade of Plastic

According to Reuters, nearly 4 trillion bottles were sold in the past ten years, each contributing to a 7,874ft high pile of plastic (2.4km).
Original image from REUTERS/Simon Scarr, Marco Hernandez.
If all plastic bottle waste were piled up in this manner, New Yorkers would see a translucent mountain every time they looked out their window rising to over half the elevation of the tallest peak in the Rocky Mountains, which is 14,440ft (4.4km) high.

The Global Flow of Plastic Waste Since 1950

Plastic bottles are just the tip of the iceberg for single-use plastics. Other examples include plastic bags, food packaging, coffee cup lids, and straws. As plastic use continues to flourish, even our best attempts at managing waste are falling short.

In fact, only an abysmal 6% of all plastic produced since 1950 has been recycled, with the majority ending up in landfills as litter, or getting incinerated.
Original image from REUTERS/Simon Scarr, Marco Hernandez.
Our plastic use is on an unsustainable trajectory, but countries are taking specific actions to curb use. Canada and the European Union (EU) will ban certain single-use plastics by 2021-and they are among 60 other nations enacting similar policies.

Corporations are also taking steps to reduce impact. A good example of this is Unilever, which made a commitment to make all its packaging reusable, recyclable, or compostable by 2025.

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A collaborative project from EIT Climate-KIC & Climate Outreach exploring how to have conversations about climate change in our daily lives #TalkingClimate

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