Copesa Gas

Concept

Bottled gas is invisible and dangerous, and both work against you: the customer cannot see what they are buying, and the little they know about the trade they associate with risk. What I did was show the whole chain, drawn.

A single horizontal screen holds the storage tank with its platform, the tanker truck, the transfer tower and the bank of valves with their gauges: the physical route the gas takes from arrival to the street. And the sections live inside that scene — the gallery appears on a hazard-striped site board planted in the ground, the form sits among the pressure gauges.

I drew it all with the precision of a technical manual rather than a cartoon: flanges on the pipework, needles on the gauges, railings on the platform. That is where a trade like this earns the seriousness it needs.