Global Center for Climate Justice

In 2021, for my first co-op at Northeastern, I had the wonderful opportunity to be a designer at the Global Center for Climate Justice. As a small nonprofit, they did not have the budget for a full design team, making me and one other co-op completely in charge of all things visual. After cleaning up the design guidelines that were loosely defined by past co-ops, we got to work. I learned Webflow to design and maintain pages of the website, created comics for the newsletter, made fliers and shirt designs for merchandise, and more. The following is work I did on a comprehensive report about the intersection of voter suppression and climate justice.

Note: Unfortunately, I cannot post the full report here because of the risk of prompting legal action from bad actors. I've redacted the names of groups and corporations involved in the polluter industrial complex.

cover

A large project I worked on at the Global Center for Climate Justice was the design for a report titled Voter Suppression, Climate Justice, & the Polluter Industrial Complex. I worked with one other designer, Annie Wolfond, to bring this report to life.

This cover is an example of our combined work: the shoe is Wolfond's illustration, and the hands with the ballots were drawn by me.

timeline

One of the larger pieces that I was responsible for was the voter suppression timeline. I did both the illustrations and the text layout for this piece.

Here, I start to introduce two important motifs: the ballots and the hands. You'll see more of this throughout the report.

polluter industrial complex characters

"The polluter industrial complex (PIC) is a highly sophisticated political infrastructure created by the most ecologically destructive sectors of American business." I illustrated villainous characters to represent the parts that make up this complex. These character designs consisted of disembodied hands holding props to differentiate them from each other when necessary. I wanted to make these characters feel less human than the hands in the timeline, so I made them green with sharp edges and exaggerated poses that defy human anatomy.

dark money diagram

I continued the PIC characters in this full-page diagram of The Alchemy Of Corporate Funding & Dark Money. The unnatural length and bend of the arms further emphasizes the inhuman qualities of these characters as they funnel money into this mysterious process that affects our world.

icons

Finally, the end of the report offers solutions, each of which I designed an icon for: Pass a Voting Rights Advancement Act (to reverse the
2013 Shelby v. Holder Supreme Court decision), Pass a For the People Act (including making election day a national holiday), End the Senate Filibuster, and Getting Big Money Out of Politics.

climate justice center