Detroit Climate Strategy
City of Detroit
The Detroit Climate Strategy was created with input from residents, organizations, community advisory councils, and multiple City of Detroit departments. It serves as a comprehensive plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and build climate resilience, with the goal of achieving municipal carbon neutrality by 2050.
The aim of the project was to create a more accessible, visually engaging alternative to a traditional, text-heavy report that might otherwise sit buried on the City’s website as a PDF. Working within the City’s brand guidelines, I designed the strategy to make typically complex and formal language more approachable, using collaged illustrations to enhance storytelling. The collages were built using the breadth of the City’s photography library, combining color, texture, and imagery to draw readers in and make the content feel tangible and relatable
Additionally, an accompanying website was created to give the report an interactive digital presence, accessible via QR codes throughout the printed report, allowing readers to engage with the content in multiple formats and explore the strategy in more depth.
Full PDF + Website
Newspaper
Website