The Hong Kong based design publisher – IdN – is releasing their 15th Anniversary Edition What Do You Love? this month. Their monthly magazine is well known for its stellar collection of all that is great in the world of print, product, interactive, environmental, and motion design. The 452-page hardcover book features specially commissioned work from 250+ talented creators who have collaborated with IdN over the last decade and a half — sharing their thoughts on the past, present, and their visions of the future. leftchannel was invited to submit 3 selections, including our vision of the future in a custom animation specifically commissioned for IdN: Domination.

Domination is piece based around theories surrounding looming future planetary consumption and the outward stretch towards interplanetary domination. In the case of this piece, spider-like missionaries are able to tap a planet’s resources dry, conserving the planet’s livable shell for later use in constructing a inhabitable surface on a distant, larger planet. This piece portrays only a case example or snapshot if you will, of the expansive process of such domination. Perhaps domination is a process that could be compared to a innocent, wonder-filled child playing in a sandbox building castles and later destroying them to rebuild bigger and better ones. Does moss not grow on wet sand?

See Domination, get more information about IdN’s 15th anniversary or even purchase a copy of the book for yourself.