Olive A Website with Open Designs for Survival by Eisuke Tachikawa is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 Golden A' Design Award in Social Design Competition Category.
GoldSocial· 2021
Olive A Website with Open Designs for Survival
Client: Nosigner
Golden A' Design Award Winner in Social Category
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About Olive 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.
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About the Golden A' Design Award
Olive A Website with Open Designs for Survival is a Golden A' Design Award winner, an immensely prestigious recognition granted to first-rate, marvelous, and outstanding designs. Golden winners are exceedingly innovative, visionary, and glamorously dazzling creations that reflect the prodigy, wisdom, and prowess of their designers. Olive A Website with Open Designs for Survival is expected to be a highly praised, trendsetting, and monumental invention that delivers unprecedented value. This Golden A' Design Award-winning design is a spectacular, respected project that highly benefits and advances the boundaries of art, science, design, and technology. Olive A Website with Open Designs for Survival creates intense feelings of desire, evokes passion, encourages creativity, and fascinates us.
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Grand Interview
Your innovative approach to disaster response through Olive A Website with Open Designs for Survival achieved over one million page views in just three weeks - could you share the story behind this remarkable community engagement and how it shaped the evolution of the platform?
When a massive earthquake struck in Tohoku, I was in Tokyo, I experienced significant shaking and a subsequent power outage. Overwhelmed by the desperate circumstances that followed, I started this project, which quickly gained traction. Many others, driven by a desire to help save lives that were being lost by the minute, joined in, providing a strong tailwind for the project's growth.
The name Olive A Website with Open Designs for Survival beautifully combines the Japanese flag's symbolism with the concept of survival - what inspired this meaningful connection, and how does it reflect the broader mission of fostering collective resilience?
The name 'Olive' was inspired by the olive tree from the Old Testament, which symbolized hope for Noah's Ark during a flood. Interestingly, the name 'Olive' came to mind first, followed by the idea to incorporate it with the Japanese flag, and only then did I learn about its biblical significance. Perhaps, it was divine providence that guided us to this name.
In developing Olive A Website with Open Designs for Survival as a wiki platform, how did you balance the need for rapid information sharing with ensuring the reliability and practicality of the survival solutions being shared?
The project began immediately after the disaster when rapid response was crucial as lives were being lost. This urgency led to the development of a simple, accessible system that could provide immediate help.
Behind the Design
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Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- 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.
- Inspiration
- As a result of seeking the Internet for several hours since the occurrence of the Great East Japan Earthquake, we realized there were tons of people who wanted to help the affected areas as we do. People were sharing information, however, as it was a colossal disaster, the speed of information uploaded was too rapid to keep track. It was necessary for a place to store and organize this kind of useful information together. We, therefore, decided to create a wiki site, OLIVE.
- Team Members
- Art Direction: NOSIGNER (Eisuke Tachikawa)
Graphic Design: NOSIGNER (Eisuke Tachikawa)
Manager: OLIVE PROJECT, OLIVE SUPPORTER
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