Calvin Platt Animates the Life of a Bike Messenger to Show What a Small Business Means to a Community

Calvin Platt is an animator based in New Jersey.

Silver Lining commissioned this work from Calvin Platt as part of the small.artists Mini Doc series, supported by Wells Fargo.

His current project follows a bike messenger not as a delivery worker, but as a connector. Someone who moves through a city and touches its small businesses, one stop at a time. Through animation, Platt explores what those businesses hold and what would be lost without them.