A picture is worth 1000 words: Vaquita

Mar 08, 2012 No Comments by Emmanuelle

The talented infographic artist Guillermo Munro is creating these posters to raise awareness on animals the most affected by human development and ignorance. In his own words he is ‘going guerilla on environmental graphics, so making them for free to the world’.

You can see the first one highlighting the red panda here, and be sure to visit his blog here.

Most of Guillermo’s work is environmental. He has been painting on cardboard and materials he finds on the street or are second-hand for the last 10 years. ‘I think I saved a couple of trees’, he joked. I’d bet on that being true though.

Art, Endangered species

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