an experience designer, researcher, & strategist with a focus on sustainable behavior change
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PUBLICATION DESIGN FOR TRANSPORTATION SAFETY STRATEGIES
Design Associate, with NACTO Global Designing Cities Initative 2019
Context
This guide offers a combination of design strategies that can be used on a variety of common street typologies, and approaches the process of designing streets inclusively, through engagement with children, local community members, and political officials.
Contributions
With NACTO-GDCI, I managed the visual design of Designing Streets for Kids, a 230-page publication offering guidance on designing more child-friendly cities through making design decisions on the street level that prioritize safety, accessibility and space for play.
As the only full-time designer, I managed the graphic identity, in alignment with past NACTO Design Guides, designed all layouts, created graphics (including all graphics shown in these selected spreads), managed interns and contract designers to support a portion of the graphic production, and coordinated the print publishing process.
A few sample slides from the publication:
Skills
visual communication design | urban design for all ages & abilities | agile management
Outcomes
Designing Streets for Kids is available for free download or for hard-copy purchase through Island Press. It is an award-winning publication with over 15,000 copies in circulation and use.