Beesaster
My first idea was going to relate to my poor sense of
direction. I found it a little hard to demonstrate this through
visual means and so I focussed my efforts on a different Idea.
I decided to change the theme of my disaster project to one
that could well become a reality in the near future. What would happen to the world if all the
Bees died out? We would have a
“Beesaster” on our hands.
For the first time I started to work on the idea with the
visual application Photoshop. I decided
to do my sketches on the application itself.
Because the front cover must be made up of typography only I
decided to create my own font related to Bees.
The font takes on the style of a honeycomb and is made up of hexagonal
shaped letters.
I decided to use the play on words and call it
Beesaster.
My booklet tells a story of what would happen if there were
no Bee’s. It contains lots of facts that
I have found.
If we were ever to find that Honey Bee’s had died out we
would be faced with a worldwide food shortage.
Honey Bee’s are the main pollinators of fruit, nut and vegetable
crops. The only crops that bee’s do not
pollinate are grains.
There are 7000 known species of Bee’s in the world and if
they disappeared the knock on effects to local eco systems worldwide would be devastating. Many other plants and species rely on Bee’s
for pollination or as part of the food chain.
With the Bee’s gone these eco systems would decline and will die out
themselves.
The Honey Bee are a good barometer for all other bee
populations so if we lose them we will soon lose the others.
Can you imagine a world without fruit? Without nuts?
Or without vegetables? Fresh
goods will one day become more valuable than gold and eventually without proper
nutrition it could easily spell the end for us as well.
Bibliography
Midwestpollinatorconservation.org (2013) Honey Bees and Pollinator Conservation. Available at:
http://www.midwestpollinatorconservation.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=64:honey-bees-and-their-role-in-pollination&catid=35:honey-bees&Itemid=70
(Accesed: 4th May 2013).
Pollinators.info (2011) What if
there were no bees? Available at: www.pollinators.info/archives/bees
(Accessed: 5th March 2013)
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