Building the digital home for The King of Sustainability

Some of the work we are proudest of never shows up in a data pipeline. Over the past year, alongside our commercial engagements, GIS Analytics has been the technology partner to a remarkable philanthropy ecosystem led by Taz Khan MBE, the chef and social entrepreneur behind London's Community Kitchen. One of those projects was giving a digital home to The King of Sustainability.

The King of Sustainability is a portrait of His Majesty The King, and it is made almost entirely from things the world throws away.

One portrait, built from the very principle the King has championed for fifty years, that in nature, nothing is truly waste.

A homage to Harmony

Conceived, guided and commissioned by Taz Khan MBE, in collaboration with the artist Michael Shellis, the work is an artistic homage to His Majesty's lifelong vision to restore balance between humanity and the natural world. Inspired by the King's book Harmony, it reflects the principles of balance, interconnectedness and cyclical renewal.

Salvaged flowers and coffee-stained petals, a panel rescued from a skip, framed in ash from the King's Highgrove estate: a likeness of the King made entirely from what the world discards.

A close detail of the portrait surface, showing pressed white flowers, blue florets and coffee-tinted petals set in resin — A detail of the surface: pressed flowers, coffee-tinted petals and reclaimed materials.

What we built

Our role was the portrait's digital home. GIS Analytics designed and built kingofsustainability.com, the micro-site that tells the work's story, together with an interactive Digital Passport: a record of the materials, provenance and journey of the piece that travels with it wherever it goes. It is a small, careful piece of engineering in service of a much bigger idea, the kind of tech-for-good work we take on for this ecosystem.

The kingofsustainability.com website: an editorial hero page introducing the portrait — The kingofsustainability.com site we designed and built, home to the portrait's Digital Passport.

Presented at Buckingham Palace

Presented and gifted to HM King Charles III at Buckingham Palace, the portrait was, following its gifting, accepted into the Royal Collection Trust, entrusted to a custodian to carry and share with the world on the King's behalf. Its journey continues through 2026 and 2027.

What gift do you give to a King? Naturally, you make something timeless: a piece of art that sees value in waste, and turns waste into wonder.
Taz Khan MBE, Founder & Custodian

For us, the project is a reminder of why we do this. The same care we bring to a client's data platform, we bring to a portrait made from petals and skip-wood: get the details right, tell the truth simply, and let the work speak.