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TABLE OF CONTENTS
04 Climate Change 06 Health Effects 00 Maine Counties
SKETCHES
RESEARCH
02 How?
12 Logo 14 Posters & Trifolds 16 App
PROCESS
FINAL
28 Logo 30 Icons
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32 Waiting Room
22 Icons
34 Posters
24 Posters & Trifold
36 Trifolds 38 Mockups 40 App 42 Colophon
Covid-19 halted classes at Maine College of Art mid March, making this senior independent project even more independent than originally planned. Having to navigate the design process of such a big project at home without in-person critiques, access to studio spaces and printers, and my classmates was even harder than imagined. I learned more about myself as a designer and my design process in the past two months than I had in the five years of schooling. Through my years at MECA, I have had the opportunity to take classes outside of the Graphic Design context. Two of my favorite and most influential classes have been, Art In The Anthropocene and Dystopian Literature. These classes, and the research and reading that went along with them, heavily influenced my scope of work as I became more interested in what was happening to the environment and what the future could look like if the climate condition continues to collapse.
For my senior project, I explored, through research, what a dystopian future as a result of unresolved environmental issues might look like. I have had the opportunity this semester to play with what the experience within a medical office that aids in acclimation to the effects of climate change might look like. What will the health effects in Maine look like? How might we all have to adapt to thrive in a dangerous environment? What will medical experiences look like one hundred years from now? How have these topics been discussed in the past and present? I feel fortunate to have had a semester to investigate these questions and to make work that demonstrates what I have learned over the past six years.
R E SE A RC H
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HOW WILL CLIMATE CHANGE EFFECT MAINE? The Gulf of Maine is warming faster than 99% of the world’s oceans, making Maine one of the first few regions to start to see drastic changes to climate change in their environment. The rest of the world is watching to see how climate change will affect our health, economics, ecosystems, and landscapes. Statistics are already being gathered on our changing coastlines and forests, attempting to predict the hazards and impacts that will impact Maine resident’s lives.
1. I had the opportunity to tag along with a friend to a doctors appointment. I wanted to document the environment and experience of medical offices.
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Heat waves will become increasingly common in Southeast Maine, where almost 40% of the state’s population lives, over the coming decades, resulting in more illness and death from heart and lung disease.
Sea level will continue to rise along the coast of Maine up to at least 1 to 2 feet, and perhaps as much as 6 feet, by 2100. Higher sea level risks salinization of groundwater upon which more than half of Mainers rely for drinking water.
Maine’s economic base, including tourism, forestry and agriculture, is vulnerable to a warming climate, and as temperatures warm, the state can expect job losses in these industries and associated mental health problems including depression and stress associated illness.
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CLIMATE CHANGE IN MAINE: The Gulf of Maine is warming faster than 99% of the rest of the world’s oceans, which puts Maine residents and scientists at the forefront of what the rest of the world can expect as their ocean temperatures rise behind us. In 2018, there were only 45 days out of the whole summer that was not categorized as heatwave temperatures. The oceans are warming so quickly that the fishing industry has not seen a cod or shrimp fishing season in almost four years. Tick’s are starting to survive our weakening winters and continue to spread Lyme disease at a quicker pace to humans and animal populations like moose. Maine’s air quality continues to drop as our temperatures rise. Over twenty coastal cities are expected to lose 2030% of their land area, along with millions of dollars worth of highways, buildings, and housing. The economic and medical devastation that is predicted to hit Maine within the next one hundred years will be devastating without personal and policy change. 3
3. Green Crabs are invading our marine ecosystems. 4. As oceantemperatures warm it continues to damage Maine’s largest economic industries like the lobster and fishing industries. 5. Storm surges combined with rising sea levels put Maine’s coastlines at risk
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WHAT ARE THE HEALTH EFFECTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE? Sketching out specific health effects of climate change along with how and where they affect the body was incredibly helpful to the research and ideate process of my thesis. Knowing the problems that needed to be fixed and gaining context on how the body works were crucial to figuring out what adaptions would be necessary for a futuristic setting. Through this phase, I was also able to ask further questions that aided in deciding what the adaptions would be. 6-8. Sketches exploring symptoms and solutions as a result of climate change in Maine. These sketches articulate visually where the symptoms take place, where modifications would be needed, and what they might be.
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SEA LEVEL RISE HEALTH EFFECTS
GLOBAL WARMING HEALTH EFFECTS
• Heart Failure
• Lyme Disease
• Hypertension
• Severe Pollen & Smog
• Cognitive Issues
• Respiratory Issues
• Vector-Borne Disease
• Heat Stress: Body controls internal temperature with the hypothalamus, adjusting to external temperatures
• Kidney Scarring • Kidney Failure: Rising sea waters will contaminate inland water sources, salinating drinking water
• Stroke • Dehydration
• Artery Damage
• Headaches
• Blindness
• Skin Issues • Dehydration: Thorny Devil survives in the desert through thorns that absorb water in the air • Digestive Trouble • Cognitive Issues • Blindness • Low Blood Volume • Seizures
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COUNTIES OF MAINE One of the most time-consuming parts of my research process was finding the percentage of risk within each county. I was researching what each counties predicted sea-level rise, precipitation, Lyme disease predictions, rising temperatures, and bodies of water. Writing down this research allowed me to designate recommendations and risks to Maine counties later on.
Above. Above is the generated data from the left. A visual to display the different effects of climate change on each county. .
SK E TC H
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LOGO While sketching logo ideas for “Adapt,� I wanted to make sure the logo was friendly while combining visuals of climate change and medicine. I wanted it to feel friendly because I wanted the brand to feel welcoming and almost calming, an opposite feeling we should have when thinking deeply about climate change. Creating a brand that would be inviting would help induce empathy within the experience and avoid activism critique through formal decisions.
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11-13 Concepts I ended up exploring digitally later
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POSTERS & TRIFOLDS While creating these posters and pamphlets, my goal was to add to the experience and information provided. I wanted to be able to educate on services Adapt provides and climate change in Maine with language and formal qualities that would make sense within the environment of a medical office. 14. Mapping out trifolds 15. Writing out poster ideas, and making putting thoughts to paper.
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APP: The app design process included sketching out various maps to try to layout the experiences of someone going to the Adapt office. By having the ability to write down this process, I was able to pinpoint what the app would need to do to make the experience productive.
D E SIG N
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LOGO: These are beginning explorations of logo ideas for Adapt. A lot of these played with mechanical components or waves to try to combine the principles of Adapt in friendly perceiving ways. 16. Color exploration
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The begining phases of creating icons were best trying to visually show how and where these adaptions would live. Trying to keep these friendly looking while clearly showing antomy and adaptions was a challenge and was later able to use color to clearly differentiate these surgeries. 17. Stomach Filter: attempting to make anatomy clear and non-repetitive 18. Hyrdration Thorns: esting out the success of parts of the body that might not by easily recognized 19. Phelangeal Webs: Strugglng to keep these within a color system while making sure they are detailed enought to be easily understood
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These are different snapshots of stages in the process of creating posters for Adapt 20.-21. Go with the flow posters were intended to be a snapshot advertisement of what Adapt is 22. Map of Maine: Poster was to give a perspective on hwat maine wil look like in the year 2100 by outlining specific climate chang effects and economical changes. 23.-24.Trifolds designed to educate on surgical adaptions as well as a detailed look on climate change in Maine
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POSTERS & TRIFOLDS
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F INA L PIE C E S
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LOGO VARI ATI ON S
C OL OR PALLET
FONTS
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ADAP TI ON ICO N S
Heat Protectant Adaptions
Tracheal Filters Filters smog, pollen, mold, and moisture through an implant within the trachea.
Basal Temperature Control System
Hydration Thorn Implants
Prevents heat exhaustion, stroke, and organ failure due to overheating from high temperatures by cooling the body from controls on the brain stem.
Implants similar to those of the Thorny Devil Lizard. These thorn-like implants help aid in water absorption from the air to help with chronic dehydration common due to heat and contaminated drinking water.
Esophogeal Filter A filtering system attached within the esophagus to help process salinated water, which can lead to high blood pressure and cardiac issues. It also filters microplastics, some parasites, and algae.
Parasite & Insect Protectant Adaptions
Water Protectant Adaptions
Gills
Phalangeal Webs
Sea level rise and sea surges kill thousands of people a year, especially as younger populations, are not acquainted with swimming due to polluted waters, making drowning a considerable danger to children and young adults. Gills allow for assisted breathing while underwater.
Sea level rise and surges kill thousands a year, especially as younger populations, are not acquainted with swimming. Webs assist with swimming against currents in the event of an emergency.
Stomach Lining And Digestion Aid
Oral And Topical Medications
Addition lining in the stomach helps with the consumption of now abundant food sources like algae, jellyfish, and treebark.
Alcaline lotion to prevent skin irritation from acid rain, and Tick prevention medication.
32 Final Pieces WAI TI N G RO O M P O S T E R S
34 Final Pieces ADVERTI SEM E N T P O S T E R
I N FOR M AT I O NA L P O S T E R This poster articulates in detail what parts of Maine will be effected by climate change and how.
36 Final Pieces I N FOR M ATI O NA L T R I FO L DS These trifolds give an in depth look at what surgeries Adapt provides and why you might need them.
40 Final Pieces ADAP T APP The Adapt App allows you to book appointments, browse surgical options recommended for your area, and check in to your appointment.
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CHECK I N G IN WI T H A DA P T A P P
D IS PL AY ED TR IFO L D S
TH A N K YO U
Photo Sources: Figure 3- USM Figure 4- Arthur Villator Figure 5- Pixabay Primary Sources: Climate Change And Health In Maine. Center for Health and the Global Environment, 2009, Climate Change And Health In Maine. Poppick, L. (2018), Why is the Gulf of Maine warming faster than 99% of the ocean?, 2018. Swain, D. P., et al. “‘Slow Adaptation in the Face of Rapid Warming Leads to Collapse of the Gulf of Maine Cod Fishery.’” Science, vol. 352, no. 6284, 2016, pp. 423–423., “The Gulf of Maine Is Warming Faster than 99 Percent of the World’s Oceans, and It’s Significantly Disrupting Fishing Patterns.” The Washington Post, WP Company,
Audrey Noyes, 2020 Created with Typefaces: Fieldwork by TipoType Phoreus Cherokee by Mark Jamra Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Fine Arts, Maine College of Art, Portland Maine, May 11, 2020 Major in Graphic Design.
Maine College Of Art Senior Independent Projects May, 2020