DEVAN PONCE





PILLAR POINT



Product Design, Inforgraphics 
2023


Signs and infographics in nature tell visitors how to behave in order to protect them and wildlife. Material choices such as glass and mirror are attended for visitors to read about the landscape while also seeing themselves as part of it.The hope in contrasting the body as separate from the natural world is placing the visitors as a part of the ecosystem having an effect on the environment’s success.

3 Panel system :
Collecting regulations
What you might see
Map & welcome message

PROCESS

+ Research
+ Sketching
+ Cad

SOFTWARE

+ Rhino
+ Keyshot    

MATERIAL

+ Glass
+ Mirrors
+ Vinyl
+ Metal




PANEL ONE

Collecting regulations


Glass Panels are fogged in an orange and green to color code, telling visitors what can and can not be removed from the landscape.
PANEL TWO

WHAT YOU MIGHT SEE



Panel two is to act as a field guide. The mirror material shadows every species images so visiors see themselves in relationship to the the tide pool life. 
PANEL THREE

MAP AND WELCOME MESSAGE

PROCESSING

+ Research
+ Sketching
+ Cad


RESEARCH

+ Observation
+ Reviewing findings from the
Acade my of Science



Entrance


Field-guide


Entrance


Fishing bucket


















Fishing
 


Ultra violet flashlight


Map


Tide reports
FINDINGS

AREAS OF STRESS

+ Over harvesting
+ Collecting
+ Large crowds

+ Trophic Cascade disruption
+ Loss of bio-diversity
+ Wasting seastars


CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES

+ Rebecca Johnson, marine biologist and head of citizen science program at pillar point
+ Long-term citizen science monitoring with bio-blitz and inaturalist




Devan Ponce 2023
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