Phoebe Spilsbury 

Memory of Ice is the first edition in Phoebe Spilsbury’s ongoing Fading Lines design series, a contemplative digital publication exploring environmental and cultural disappearance through poetic storytelling and visual erosion. This edition reflects on the quiet vanishing of glaciers and the fragility of collective memory. Through gradual image fading, minimal typography, and restrained colour palettes of pale blues and greys, the work evokes the beauty and melancholy of loss without overt activism. Designed as a digital coffee-table book, it invites audiences to pause, observe, and reflect within everyday domestic spaces. Influenced by artists Olafur Eliasson and Katie Paterson, Memory of Ice transforms environmental data into an emotional landscape, where stillness becomes a form of remembrance. The project reimagines how design can foster empathy and reflection toward global change through intimate, contemplative encounters.