Social Issue Clock
Senior students in the Visual Communication Design program at Arizona State University are tasked with creating a clock based on their chosen social issue. My clock focuses on Unethical Cobalt Mining in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
Every chargeable device you own is powered with cobalt. It’s the component in lithium-ion batteries that keeps them stable and long lasting. About seventy percent of the world’s cobalt is mined from the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The Congo’s mining system is horribly corrupt and dangerous, their cobalt is tainted with abuse, slavery, child labor, human trafficking, hazardous working conditions, pathetic wages, injury, death, and incalculable environmental harm.
