For this project, the goal was to make a company that created some kind of unusual product- preferably out of throwaway material. And seeing the chance to do something more complex and charitable, decided to try and use cheap, throwaway umbrellas to make tents for the homeless.

These are the final models for the tents I made in Maya and brought to Photoshop, showing the portable tents in three positions: upright, pressed down and folded up.

This project introduced me to many firsts in its development, starting with that this was the first time I'd ever made a stakeholder map and branding guidelines.

I knew for the look and feel of it that I wanted something that would be visually accessible to anyone who could see, so I picked fonts that were as dyslexia-friendly as possible and kept the colour scheme to blue/orange with some red.

The marketing material for this had to be slightly different since this was a theoretical non profit. So I designed flyers, badges and stickers aimed at three different groups: donors, schools who'd be adopting a program from Respite Tents to learn more about homelessness, those homeless who could pay for a tent and those who'd been formerly homeless.

This project was also the first time I'd ever done an executive summary. So to try to keep it simple, I decided to dedicate one page each to six questions and use a combination of edited images from my sketchbook and photos I found and edited online to create a visual aesthetic that was both cohesive and moving.