Annual Report
Temple University Office of Sustainability
The annual report is an annual booklet that lays out all of the goals and progress the university has made over the past year within the realm of sustainability. It covers topics such as academics, design, energy, culture, and operations.
Project Direction: Rebecca Collins
This past year, the annual report needed a total overhaul on it’s design and layout. The report was divided into 5 sections and used color and basic icons to differentiate each one. Within each section are goals the university wants to reach, along with their progress. As well as highlights of people and events that happened relating to the overarching section.
The emissions graph was a key design element to start off the report with a two-page spread laying out Temple’s goal for Carbon Neutrality. This is the first example of how the information would be presented to the reader. The goal is that both the public and those with vast knowledge on the subject can understand the content.
The GRASP logo that can be found on the bottom right (left page) was part of a redesign I had done earlier in the year. The use of multiple colors was to signify the vast specialties that the research award and its awardees put forth.
Every section had an infographic of some sort included. The visuals help to break down the information and give the reader’s eyes relief from heavy text columns.
Operations, unlike the other sections, has subsections as laid out on the left page. To keep it consistent and easy flowing for the reader, each subsection was laid out just as if it were it’s own. Therefore having a description followed by a feature goal, a highlight or two, and then the goal progress.