Urban Ecology zine

Spring 2025

timeframe: 5 days

how are wild animals evolving to fit human-dominated ecosystems?

project brief: create a zine centered around a social cause we had interest in, informing an audience through data visualization

for this project i: researched our effect on animal behavior, wrote content to fill the zine, and created a visual language that could be later adapted to different mediums

  • Adobe Illustrator
  • Adobe InDesign
  • Information Design
  • Identity Design

This project was the first of a series of related to a social issue or cause we're interested in. I chose to focus on how animals are beginning to adapt to human urban presence, and the ramifications for how we should design our cities.

The timeline was meant to be extremely fast; we only had 5 days to complete the zine, and to develop a visual language that could extend across later projects in different mediums. Knowing this, I designed a set of motifs that worked as visual metaphors for the increasing presence of animals within cities, which I could then modify and reuse for different layouts.