Partnering for a Resilient Future
Sometimes organisations come with existing thoughts and sometimes they come with a creative vision. And a few times they come with shapes, or just one shape, which in the case of CDRI is a Hexagon. Contained in CDRI’s logo is a symbol of two linked hexagons. A hexagon is understood to be stable and balanced, but a slight tilt and it can suddenly seem unpredictable as it stands on a point. To us, these represent the opposing notions of infrastructure and disasters. Infrastructure must be resilient and stable to be able to withstand the forces of natural or man-made disasters, and that is the purview of the booklet we illustrated and laid out for CDRI.
The Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (CDRI) is an international coalition of countries, United Nations agencies, multilateral development banks, the private sector, and academic institutions, that aims to promote disaster-resilient infrastructure.
In the booklet, CDRI’s work is categorised under Sectoral and Thematic Programmes and Cross-cutting projects. For each of these we illustrated and designed dividers that encapsulate different aspects of the projects. Using monolines to depict disaster (storms, tsunamis and flood, earthquakes) we have illustrated a variety of icons or scenes related to the sub-programmes.
The inside pages rely on a dynamic usage of the hexagon to split the spread into two sections of a visual and text. We use a solid hexagon to show relevant highlights that are surrounded by broken edges of a hexagon.
