“How Decades of Racist Housing Policy Left Neighborhoods Sweltering” PROCESS BOOK: NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE COVER & SPOT ART ABIGAIL MILES | VISC 304
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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PROJECT DESCRIPTION & PROJECT REVIEW
SKETCHES
SPOT ART IDEAS
FINAL SPREAD MOCK-UP
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RESEARCH & NOTES
TEN COVER IDEAS
SPOT ART REFINEMENTS
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FIRST ROUND OF CONCEPT BOARDS
REFINED COVERS
FINAL COVER & SPOT ART
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FINAL ROUND OF CONCEPT BOARDS
SPOT ART SKETCHES
ANIMATION & STORY BOARD
PROJECT DESCRIPTION To create a cover design with additional spot art to highlight more in-depth meaning of the chosen article. The cover should illustrate concept and visual messaging to represent the article; giving insight to key phrases and ideas. In addition, creating spreads allows the viewer to see the spot art in context as well as the animated cover or spot art.
PROJECT REVIEW When creating concepts and visuals for the cover and spot art I was tremendously stuck because I had chose a great article with so many different layers and components. I was having trouble finding which ones to focus on and which ideas I could make broad for the cover. Overall, I found that the idea I went with for my cover was broad enough but still got the message across. Next for my spot art, I had only a few good ideas that I wanted to expand more on. I wanted the spot art to match my cover but got further in-depth about each component: risk of housing, limited green space and redlined cities being just numbers and plots rather than people living in these over heating, racist cities. This project taught me how to further concept and how to execute them.
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Research and Notes
RESEARCH AND NOTES
POSSIBLE TOPICS 1. “Florida Crisis Highlights a Nationwide Risk From Toxic Ponds” 2. “How Redlining’s Racist Effects Lasted for Decades” 3. “How Decades of Racist Housing Policy Left Neighborhoods Sweltering” 4. “The Children in the Shadows: New York City’s Homeless Students”
ARTICLE SUMMARY “Redlining is a discriminatory practice” through the denial of services by federal government agencies as well as putting these services “out of reach for residents of certain areas based on race or ethnicity.” Plumer and Popovich example how redlining has pushed minorities into inner cities in which the “concrete jungle” raises temperatures by reflecting heat off pavement and trapping heat with large buildings. The added heat creates dangerous living situations and health risks. Now city planners need to think about racial equity when designing.
CHOSEN ARTICLE
“How Decades of Racist Housing Policy Left Neighborhoods Sweltering”
IMPORTANT QUOTES “Now, as global warming brings ever more intense heat waves, cities like Richmond are drawing up plans to adapt — and confronting a historical legacy that has left communities of color far more vulnerable to heat.” “Every Black neighborhood, no matter its income level, was outlined in red and deemed a “hazardous” area for housing loans.”
WORD LIST
SWELTERING
GLOBAL WARMING
LOW-INCOME
HISTORICAL LEGACY
FAHRENHEIT
VULNERABLE
SOAR
TRANSPARENT
HAZARDOUS
OUT OF REACH
DECLINING
CONFINED
REDLINING
Redlining wasn’t the only factor driving racial inequality, but the maps offer a visible symbol of how federal policies codified housing discrimination.” “Today, Richmond’s formerly redlined neighborhoods are, on average, 5 degrees hotter on a summer day than greenlined neighborhoods, satellite analyses reveal.” “For years, cities across the United States rarely thought about racial equity when designing their climate plans, which meant that climate protection measures, like green roofs on buildings, often disproportionately benefited whiter, wealthier residents. That’s slowly starting to change.”
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First Round of Concept Boards ESTABLISHING A VISUAL IMAGE AND CONCEPT
Concept One: “How Decades of Racist Housing Policy Left Neighborhoods Sweltering”
Isolated to the large buildings and property lines, many minorities living in inner cities are trapped in suffocating heat, unable to pay their way to the cool suburbs. Separated by a red line.
- Cropped Images - Dividing lines and isolation - Strong divide
Concept Board: One
Concept Titles: Between the lines Crossing the line
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Concept Two: “How Decades of Racist Housing Policy Left Neighborhoods Sweltering”
Minorities in inner cities are trapped as the control of federal government agencies continues redlining but the effects change. This time global warming sets fire to contained cities.
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- Heat maps - Line of divide showing control - “Bubble”
Concept Board: Two
Concept Titles: Crossing the line Controlled fires
Concept Three: “How Decades of Racist Housing Policy Left Neighborhoods Sweltering”
Urban planners need to take in account of racial equity within various environments. Federal agencies group minorities and income by real estate investments, allowing urban planners to continue.
- Graphs representing city blocks - Grouping of people - Separation of people
Concept Board: Three
Concept Titles: Grading Discriminatory Grouping
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Final Round of Concept Boards ESTABLISHING A VISUAL IMAGE AND CONCEPT
Concept One: Between the Lines “How Decades of Racist Housing Policy Left Neighborhoods Sweltering”
Division
Isolated to the large buildings and property lines, many minorities living in inner cities are trapped in suffocating heat, unable to pay their way to the cool suburbs. Separated by a red line.
Isolated
Refined Concept Board: One
Stranded
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Concept Two: Heat Wave “How Decades of Racist Housing Policy Left Neighborhoods Sweltering”
Contained
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Minorities in inner cities are trapped as the control of federal government agencies continues redlining but the effects change. This time global warming sets fire to contained cities.
Saturated
Refined Concept Board: Two
Separated
Concept Three: Ignored Plots “How Decades of Racist Housing Policy Left Neighborhoods Sweltering”
Statistical
Urban planners need to take in account of racial equity within various environments. Federal agencies group minorities and income by real estate investments, allowing urban planners to continue.
Strategic
Refined Concept Board: Three
Boundaries
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Sketches SKETCHING POTENTIAL COVERS BASED ON CONCEPT BOARDS
Sketches: Ignored Plots
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Sketches: Ignored Plots
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Sketches: Ignored Plots
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Sketches: Ignored Plots
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Sketches: Between the Lines
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Sketches: Between the Lines
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Sketches: Between the Lines
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Sketches: Between the Lines
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Sketches: Heat Map
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Sketches: Heat Map
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Sketches: Heat Map
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Sketches: Heat Map
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Ten Cover Ideas PUTTING SKETCHES INTO ACTION
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“How Decades of Racist Housing Policy Left Neighborhoods Sweltering”
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ALWAYS PUSHED ONE STEP BACK “How Decades of Racist Housing Policy Left Neighborhoods Sweltering” By Brad Plumer and Nadja Popovich
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REDUCES HEAT IN INNER CITIES
SIDE EFFECTS : GENTRIFICATION
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Refined Covers USING THE TEN COVER IDEAS AND REFINING THEM
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Spot Art Sketches GOING FURTHER IN-DEPTH INTO VISUALS
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Spot Art Illustrations PUTTING THE SPOT ART SKETCHES INTO ACTION
MEDICAL RECORD Heat Exhaustion Asthma Diabetes High Blood Pressure
Total Fatalities
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12,000 Annually
WARNING OVERHEATING INNER CITY
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Refined Spot Art Illustrations USING THE TEN SPOT ART IDEAS AND REFINING THEM
Final Cover and Spot Art THE FINAL PRODUCT
Animation Story Board BRINGING THE COVER TO LIFE
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Spread Design MOCKING UP THE COVER AND SPOT ART DESIGN
