TWIPSY

We created a mutant character capable of symbolizing all the concepts developed at the World Expo Hannover 2000.

To select the mascot for Expo Hannover 2000, its organizers invited twenty prominent international authors to participate in a restricted competition. According to the competition rules, the mascot had to symbolize the three basic mottos of the World Exposition: Humanity, Nature and Technology. Twipsy was chosen, the mascot designed by Mariscal, a character that comes from a past as distant as the Big Bang, an expanding spark that became a star, a cell, an invertebrate, a reptile, a bird, a mammal and, now, Twipsy. Twipsy was born from the computer, that's why its morphology is like that of a chewing gum, stretching and lengthening, shrinking and flattening. Its very essence determines its shape. Twipsy must also represent a being capable of understanding all the codes handled by the societies of 2000; not only the western codes, but also those of cultures far away for Europeans, but which must necessarily be present in this society, already so mixed.