As part of shoe brand Converse’s City Forests programme, two Polish artists have created an eco-friendly mural using paint that ‘eats’ the surrounding pollution.
Illustrator and graphic designer Dawid Ryski, with illustrator, muralist and graphic designer Maciek Polak, painted their mural in Warsaw using photocatalytic paint, which cleans the air by using light energy to break down pollutants and convert them into harmless substances. Converse states that “any surface coated with this paint becomes an active air-purifying surface that helps protect people from harmful gases”.
The large artwork, near Politechnika metro station, has the air-purifying equivalent of 780 trees. The Converse City Forests programme, which to date has seen eco murals painted in six cities around the world – including Belgrade, Bangkok, São Paulo, Santiago and Sydney – has a total air-cleaning equivalent so far of more than 2,700 trees.
The company, which describes the programme as “planting trees where trees don’t grow”, plans to help artists paint further murals in Jakarta, Manila, Lima, Johannesburg, Melbourne, Bogotá and Panama City. The project can be followed on social media with the hashtag #ConverseCityForests.
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As part of shoe brand Converse’s City Forests programme, two Polish artists have created an eco-friendly mural using paint that ‘eats’ the surrounding pollution.
Illustrator and graphic designer Dawid Ryski, with illustrator, muralist and graphic designer Maciek Polak, painted their mural in Warsaw using photocatalytic paint, which cleans the air by using light energy to break down pollutants and convert them into harmless substances. Converse states that “any surface coated with this paint becomes an active air-purifying surface that helps protect people from harmful gases”.
The large artwork, near Politechnika metro station, has the air-purifying equivalent of 780 trees. The Converse City Forests programme, which to date has seen eco murals painted in six cities around the world – including Belgrade, Bangkok, São Paulo, Santiago and Sydney – has a total air-cleaning equivalent so far of more than 2,700 trees.
The company, which describes the programme as “planting trees where trees don’t grow”, plans to help artists paint further murals in Jakarta, Manila, Lima, Johannesburg, Melbourne, Bogotá and Panama City. The project can be followed on social media with the hashtag #ConverseCityForests.