fast fashion's footprint

Shortly after graduating university, the Global Center for Climate Justice reached out again with an exciting project. I was given the incredible opportunity to have complete creative agency over a report. With some helpful feedback from the rest of the Climate Justice Center team, I created the design system, layout, cover, infographics, and smaller elements for this report. Since I was the only designer working on this project, it took about six months. I'm very proud to share this project with the world.

Fast fashion is one of the leading contributors to global warming and worker exploitation. I hope that my design can help people to visualize these injustices. The link to the full project is at the bottom of the page!
cover
The cover introduces some of the key elements to this report's design system. One of my first steps in designing this report was taking pictures of the clothes in my closet to create textures to use throughout the report. On the cover, I used one of my cotton textures, edited to fit the orange of the center's color palette.

The Global Center for Climate Justice primarily uses the typeface Poppins, which has a wide range of weights, making it simple to show hierarchy.
section headings
Each section of the report has a different fabric heading. Pictured here are my denim and courderoy textures.

From the pictures, I created vectorized textures of the different fabrics. These textures, along with some "stitching," are used throughout the report as backgrounds and borders when needed. The pull-quote and the flourish at the bottom of page 4 are just a couple of examples of these details.
callout sections
When a part of the writing needed to be highlighted, I created "patches" to make them stand out. These patches featured a zig-zag stitched border and fragments of one of my fabric textures.
graphic-dictated layouts
Some pages were reconfigured to highlight the text's associated graphic.
full-page graphics
Some more complex graphics demanded a whole page to get the point across. This first orange page is one of my favorites - I think that the size comparison between the worker and the CEO is a particularly powerful image.
smaller graphics
(fix/crop these)
photos
Most photos used in this report were from Greenpeace, and others were found on free-use photo websites.
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CW: Child labor
full pdf
To see all off these graphics and more in context, and to learn about the global impact of fast fashion, check out the full project here: Fast Fashion's Footprint
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