World Skin Colours Infographic Scarves

A brilliant find at the New York International Gift Fair, the World Skin Colours Scarves turn the demographic data from each country represented into a visual language. Every country has its own composition of skin colours that have been linked to its population, climate, economy, politics and social practices…all represented within the palette of this scarf. Fashioned by designer Reineke Otten, statistics about migration, population density, temperature, UV radiation, GDP and transport are also all represented here by a graphic code of shapes, colours and patterns. The scarves reveal relationships, histories, and patterns of populations, and all tell stories which you can tell as you wear them. These are just a few of the 231 countries represented.

What makes these scarves so amazing and unique is the fact that each one is different in the way that they reveal relationships, histories and patterns of populations, and they all tell stories which you tell as you wear it.