Ask the middling four - year - honest-to-goodness a question , and you ’ll probably get a wild , wreathe account in return . type in compass point : Last month , piffling visitor to theV&A Museum of Childhoodwere invite to apportion their visual sense of what the future holds . The predictably unearthly and fantastic results — inconspicuous possessor of the worldly concern ! Butterfly people ! Three - eyed , Cheerio - loving aliens!—were turned over to creative person at theCentral Illustration Agency , who each teamed up with a tiny counterpart to change state those predictions into full - color 2D realities .
“ Mind of a tyke — Eye of an Artist ” is a freaking brilliant campaign to advance a undertaking calledBig Draw : Draw Tomorrow , aimed at encouraging creativity in the younguns of today . It ’s enough to make even the most storey - headed grown - up give a warm thought or two to the coolheaded potential future conceivable , and the sodding fashion to get mental engine pitch up to make the next days , decades , and centuries on world even dear than the last . The whole affair is almost a bit like a modern artsy take on Giz ’s ownPaleofuture — if the forecasters of past were , in fact , under - age .
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Ahoy There! and Nikakare, aged five
“ I ’ll live in Jamaica , because there will be a beach . Dolphins will float with me in the ocean . Which will be puritanical . There will be ocean polo-neck , over-embellished jelly fish and purple seal . There will be 101 dalmatian because I love them , they will be regal spot dogs . ”
David Holmes and Summer, aged three
“ Everyone will live on one big sauceboat except beast who will have one boat each . We will keep fit by jump up and down and people will eat chips and tomatoes , while animals will eat grass . ”
Matt Taylor and Cal, aged six
“ We will wear glow in the dark dress and live in unearthly underground burrow building . machine will have propeller so they can fly and we will spend most of our time digging for diamonds to give to the owner of the earth . You ca n’t see him because he is invisible . ”
Paul Wearing and Agata, aged five
“ Everyone is a butterfly stroke except from instructor , who are caterpillars . There will also be lots of spaceship and diminutive little iPads . ”
Sir Peter Blake and Evie, aged eight
“ Here , the colour of the sky reflects our modality — yellow for happy , purple for wild . Trees will sing when we ’re well-chosen — oh , and everyone will wear spacesuit onesies and bounce along paths made of jelly . ”
Richard Wilkinson and Hamish, aged four
“ Aliens have three eyes and ten fingers on each mitt . They will also like to eat Cheerios . ”
Telegramme and Kham, aged four
“ We will live on another major planet with wimp and icteric dinosaurs and two sharks that can take the air . It will be gay with C. P. Snow . ”
Tobatron and Rohan, aged 4
“ In the future , Rohan will deliver milk on a camion with five wheels while wearing a magic cloak . There are no cows , except unseeable one , so the milk will appear like magic . ”
Jacob Hinrichs and Mae, aged eight
“ Everyone has a little chip of curly hair … brute are the same but some can flee … dogs can drown submerged like a fish with snorkels on . Everyone eats hot chocolate because chocolate is level-headed . Everything that ’s healthy is insalubrious and vice versa . There ’s no schooling , the sunshine always shines and everyone hold out long dark dress that are blue . ”
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