Introducing NatureNow

After a recent trip to the ‘More than human’ exhibition at the Design museum I felt inspired to make something.

One particular exhibit, ‘Nature Calendar’ by Marcus Coates really captured my imagination.

His calendar simply lists specific events that happen in the natural world throughout the year in the UK.

I love the idea of having a daily reminder of things that are happening in the natural world, to help shift our thoughts from the everyday, to offer perspective and to remind us of the amazing things that are happening around us.

I thought I’d have a crack at making my own digital version.

It’s been fun (and painful) trying to make it work and fun experimenting with various AI tools to try and bring something to life.

The real joy has been researching the different natural events and discovering the concept of phenology (the study of cyclic and seasonal natural phenomena).

My aim is to convey both what is happening and importantly how the timing of things is changing due to our warming climate.

It’s still a prototype (well isn’t everything) but the 1st September felt like a good day to release it into the world, so here’s ‘NatureNow‘

If you ‘save to home screen’ from your mobile browser (via the share option in your browser) it acts as an app so you can easily check out what is going on every day.

Hopefully it’ll help you to daydream while on the bus, take the edge off that nasty deadline and help you tune into what’s going around you.

Enjoy!