Olive — A Website with Open Designs for Survival
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Award-Winning A Website with Open Designs for Survival
This design features Rosy Brown, Light Gray, Silver, Thistle, Tan, and Dark Gray.
About the Award-Winning A Website with Open Designs for Survival: Olive is a wiki site that gathers and shares practical knowledge during a disaster. The project was named Olive, derived from the letter O (an emblem of the Japanese national flag) + Live (to live on). Ideas were quickly gathered with help from worldwide, on how to build necessities to survive in affected areas without the supplies. It achieved over one million page views within three weeks. It is still expanding today as a database of disaster countermeasures using collective intelligence.
This palette has a cozy feel, evoking inviting warmth.
View at A' Design AwardOlive, the design behind this palette, was designed by Eisuke Tachikawa.
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Relative luminance defines the perceived brightness of a color. Values range from 0 (pure black) to 1 (pure white). This metric is essential for calculating WCAG contrast ratios.
Relative luminance defines the perceived brightness of a color. Values range from 0 (pure black) to 1 (pure white). This metric is essential for calculating WCAG contrast ratios.
Relative luminance defines the perceived brightness of a color. Values range from 0 (pure black) to 1 (pure white). This metric is essential for calculating WCAG contrast ratios.
Relative luminance defines the perceived brightness of a color. Values range from 0 (pure black) to 1 (pure white). This metric is essential for calculating WCAG contrast ratios.
Relative luminance defines the perceived brightness of a color. Values range from 0 (pure black) to 1 (pure white). This metric is essential for calculating WCAG contrast ratios.
Relative luminance defines the perceived brightness of a color. Values range from 0 (pure black) to 1 (pure white). This metric is essential for calculating WCAG contrast ratios.
Relative luminance defines the perceived brightness of a color. Values range from 0 (pure black) to 1 (pure white). This metric is essential for calculating WCAG contrast ratios.
Relative luminance defines the perceived brightness of a color. Values range from 0 (pure black) to 1 (pure white). This metric is essential for calculating WCAG contrast ratios.
This color palette was derived from Eisuke Tachikawa's acclaimed work "Olive".
Eisuke Tachikawa is a renowned creative director honored by the A' Design Award. Their portfolio demonstrates expertise in design and visual communication.
Eisuke Tachikawa is the head of NOSIGNER, a design firm aiming to create a hopeful future. He has worked on many projects tackling social issues, like climate change mitigation and adaptation, renewable energy, disaster prevention, community revitalization, and more. He advocates “Evolutional Creativity,” which tells the essence of creativity from the natural phenomenon of biological evolution, and this aims to foster innovators in various sectors of industry, academia, and government. This approach won him the prestigious Shichihei Yamamoto Prize, the leading academic award in humanities. Aside from being the chairman of the Benesse Educational Research & Development Institute's "Future of Higher Education" group, Tachikawa is working to spread creative education. As a highly expressive designer of products, graphics, and architecture, he has won over 100 design awards in Japan and internationally, including the Good Design Gold Award, the Design for Asia Grand Award, and the German Design Gold Award. He was also a judge for the Good Design Awards, ACC Tokyo Creative Awards, Design for Asia Awards, and World Architecture Festival. In 2021, he became the youngest president of the Japan Industrial Design Association (JIDA), Japan's oldest national design organization. He contributed to holding the World Design Conference in Japan for the first time in 34 years. In 2023, he joined the board of directors for the World Design Organization (WDO), which is an advisory group for the United Nations.
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Olive was awarded with the Golden A' Social Design Award in 2021. The A' Design Award is a well-established design recognition initiative that honors exemplary design excellence. Award recipients are determined through rigorous evaluation by qualified design professionals representing multiple disciplines. The Golden status represents notable design quality as judged by the review committee.
Elevate impactful projects that address social challenges through design innovation. The social award category highlights initiatives that foster community engagement, promote social equity, and demonstrate responsible design practices.
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