Twipsy Pin Set & Lithograph World Fair Expo 2000 Designer Javier Mariscal

Set of 5 pins from EXPO2000, framed and matted against a lithograph of original sketches of his incarnation. Twipsy was the official Mascot of the Expo 2000 world's fair held in Hannover. The character was created by the Conceived and designed by Spanish artist Javier Mariscal in 1995 during a competition, Twipsy was chosen out of seventeen entries from invited artists as the official mascot of the EXPO 2000 World's fair held in Hannover, Germany. Keeping in tune with the expo's theme of "Man, Nature, Technology," Twipsy was designed as an abstract being with a unique morphology. Mariscal cites that it was his intention to "...embody the triangular aspects of the key theme "Humankind - Nature - Technology" in one figure... therefore [Twipsy] resembles a new type of being, a new human-animal-technological species." This was a numbered set unfortunately the number is below the frames matting. E2