No Small Thing is a not-for-profit community organisation, set up to capture stories from across the construction industry and other resource-centric communities. Illustrator Beatriz Leonardo was commissioned to design a series of comic-strip style assets that could be used to help tell the stories about specific material challenges and introduce companies and individuals who were championing better practice and new ways of thinking.

In the midst of increasing material scarcity and climate stresses, this community of resource entrepreneurs are demonstrating how, through a whole spectrum of approaches, they are taking practical actions that keep resources in circulation for longer, putting less demand on the Earth for virgin resources.

Many of us are visual learners. It can be easier to process and remember information, as well as improving critical thinking and skills development, when ideas are communicated visually (and via audio) vs text alone. NST takes inspiration from graphic novels, illustrated maps and mini guides/zines and looks to work with illustrators with diverse backgrounds and styles.

Our aim is to help inspire the younger generation, career changers and volunteers to seek out, set-up and participate in ventures that will enable the necessary shift away from mass consumption, unfair and unequal ‘rights to resources’ and the associated social, environmental and economic abuses that are entangled with global resource extraction and consumerism.