TALKING TEXTILES

For this design project, we were able to choose a climate change topic for our school's department of sustainability's annual Creation Care Week Campaign. I chose a topic I have written numerous papers on and has always interested me personally, which is textile reuse and repurposing. I used painter's canvas scraps to sew and glue together a dress to depict how waste can be repurposed and given new life. I then photographed the dress and used typographic hierarchy to share the impacts of this issue. We created Instagram posts for the sustainability department's Instagram account, posters that were attached to columns on campus, and take away cards for students, which I attached repurposed key chains to that were sewn together using scraps as well.