BFA Thesis Seminar
This interactive, informational website investigates the biased and intentional targeting of impoverished and minority communities to house U.S. waste facilities. As no educational or accessible resource exists on this topic, one of my main goals was to design, code, and curate that resource for the web.
The site aims to expose the consequences of prejudiced policy-making, as well as share the success stories of grassroots communities' astounding resilience in creating national change. The ultimate goal of this site is to inspire both users who live in these at-risk areas, as well as those who do not (but have more voting power), to make change as a part of the Environmental Justice Movement.
This site was made during the Spring of 2014 for my semester-long interaction design seminar thesis project, in which we had five weeks to design and write our site, and another five weeks to teach ourselves how to code our sites in html and css. You can view my live site here, but please note that it is not responsive and is properly viewed in browser windows as close to 1440x730 pixels as possible.
This interactive, informational website investigates the biased and intentional targeting of impoverished and minority communities to house U.S. waste facilities. As no educational or accessible resource exists on this topic, one of my main goals was to design, code, and curate that resource for the web.
The site aims to expose the consequences of prejudiced policy-making, as well as share the success stories of grassroots communities' astounding resilience in creating national change. The ultimate goal of this site is to inspire both users who live in these at-risk areas, as well as those who do not (but have more voting power), to make change as a part of the Environmental Justice Movement.
This site was made during the Spring of 2014 for my semester-long interaction design seminar thesis project, in which we had five weeks to design and write our site, and another five weeks to teach ourselves how to code our sites in html and css. You can view my live site here, but please note that it is not responsive and is properly viewed in browser windows as close to 1440x730 pixels as possible.
Users move through a linear scrolling narrative using the minimal animated nav fixed at the top right that anchors to each section.
The site context is set with a monumental fact that also establishes the site's harsh set of style contrasts: large sans-serif type with smaller slab body copy, as well as hazardous yellows and stark black and white relationships.
The site chronicles the stories of 3 communities from different eras and areas of the U.S. who have triumphed against environmental racism.
Each case study has a unique color palette and uses primary source photography and composite narrative sources to tell the community's story in their own words.
