Mathieu Lehanneur created a series of sculptures that represent the world's population. Using data from 140 countries, the artist 3D-printed aluminum sculptures in a series called State of the World. The collection is on view at Design Miami/Basel.
Each sculpture represents an individual country and depicts birthrates, life expectancy, and national history through their unique shapes. The respective grooves represent an age from 1-100. At the base are newborn children, while the top grooves portray the eldest generation. The sculptures showcase how few people live to be 100 years old, making the sculptures bottom-heavy with newborns and the youth population. Lehanneur used the UN database to source his information to transform unnoticeable two-dimensional statistics into interactive, 3D objects.
Image Credit: Mathieu Lehanneur
What's Driving This Trend
- Data-inspired Sculptures
- Opportunity for artists and designers to create unique sculptures that visualize and contextualize complex data.
- 3d-printed Display Art
- Opportunity for 3D printing companies to provide customized models to artists and designers for display art production.
- Interactive Statistic Visualization
- Opportunity for data analytics companies to create more user-friendly and interactive ways of showcasing statistics and data to the public.
Who This Affects Most
- Art and Design
- The art and design industries can leverage technology like 3D printing and data analytics to create new forms of display art.
- 3D Printing
- 3D printing companies can collaborate with artists and designers to provide customized and unique display art production services.
- Data Analytics
- Data analytics companies can improve their data visualization tools and techniques to make statistics and data more accessible and interactive to the public.
