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Do the Green Thing's latest issue features a ton of new Paula Scher work

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Date
30 July 2018
A pattern of red and white warning signs, each featuring a simple black icon and a bold caption. The signs warn of climate disasters, including “Melts icecaps”, “Sinks islands” and “Exterminates species”.

Back in 2007, Pentagram’s Naresh Ramchandani decided to launch a publication with a serious, and seriously useful, message. Do the Green Thing, as the name suggests, tips it’s eco-friendly hemp hat toward the necessity of making sustainable choices as desirable as possible, through the use of compelling creative work that has been rigorously researched, argued originally, and made vivid through illustrations, films and campaigns.

The latest issue – the publication’s tenth, titled Nice ad, shame about the planet – sees a particularly persuasive editorial (penned by Naresh himself) paired with some all-new visual work by It’s Nice That favourite Paula Scher. The Pentagram partner has produced a series of contemporary warning labels, that the studio themselves describe as “the twenty-first century equivalent of Smoking Kills.”

Naresh’s piece, which discusses whether products that are harmful to the environment should be allowed to publicly promote themselves, has got everyone at It’s Nice That thinking very, very hard about their own patterns of consumption. And climate change. On a Monday morning.

You can check out some of Paula’s funny-but-serious work from the issue below.

A billboard in a subway station shows a child wearing a T-shirt that reads “SUPER COOL DUDE”. Large blue and white text reads “PRIMARK SUMMER”. A red and white sticker is pasted over the image, featuring a silhouette of a dead animal and the words “EXTERMINATES SPECIES”.
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Nice ad, shame about the planet

Two advertising posters are displayed on a tiled wall at Russell Square station. The first shows a red Range Rover in a dust storm with a warning sign that reads “WHIPS UP HURRICANES”. The second features a safety pin and a warning sign that reads “SINKS ISLANDS”.
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Nice ad, shame about the planet

A long pink banner for Topshop is displayed against a dark grey wall. It features repeating images of a person in a black embroidered jacket and the “Melts Icecaps” logo.
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Nice ad, shame about the planet

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Josh Baines

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Josh Baines joined It's Nice That from July 2018 to July 2019 as News Editor, covering new high-profile projects, awards announcements, and everything else in between.

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