Designer Rikako Nagashima creates wool calendars visualizing climate urgency for Kvadrat's sustainability project

Graphic designer Rikako Nagashima has created a series of rolled calendars for Danish textile brand Kvadrat that have been shortlisted in the graphic design project category of Dezeen Awards 2025.

Titled Irreversible Scale, the project was presented as part of Kvadrat's ReThink textile project on sustainability, designed to illustrate the brand's commitment to carbon neutrality.

The wool calendars use the material's natural properties to visualize climate change impacts, with fibers shrinking and becoming denser over time to represent the shrinking window for climate action.

Nagashima's approach focuses on creating tactile, material-based communication about climate urgency rather than traditional data visualization methods.

The project aims to make the abstract concept of climate change more tangible and emotionally resonant through the physical transformation of wool over time.