100 DIY polar bears with melting ice cream cones made for Limited Edition - A show benefiting endangered species in Birmingham in March 2008. As always with these paper kits, we go for making the unbuilt sheet interesting as well and I used industrial "warning style" graphics to stress the urgency of the matter because even though polar bears aren't endangered as such, they will be quite soon. The fact that the polar bear doesn't seem to understand what's going on seems to appeal to people, they feel sorry for him, which was one of the points: These majestic and powerful animals that can kill us with one swipe of a paw now requires our help, which is a little sad. These were printed in an edition of 100 and these were meant to be sold at the show, but due to the fact that people only saw the built version and there was no visible price or information on the remaining 99 meant the didn't. |