For my most recent graphic notetaking job, I had the pleasure of working with the National Harm Reduction Coalition on a webinar they had in collaboration with Trystereo, a harm reduction organization based out of New Orleans, LA. The webinar was the first part of the rollout of the NHRC’s digital toolkit “Its Our Backyard Too” that aims to teach and build “community centered support for harm reduction.” It was a great conversation facilitated by Alyshia Gonzalez, Taharka Anderson, and Savannah O’Neil and I was honored to be a part of it.
Also exciting for me was that NHRC requested that I not just create graphic notes to summarize the content of the webinar but they also wanted me to turn those notes into a physical booklet (or “zine”) to be sent to the participants afterwards. I was happy to oblige and upon completion of this project they ended up with the digital graphic notes, physical copies of the notes in the form of a booklet, and a stack of custom black and gold vinyl stickers as a little lagniappe.
Below are some pictures of the finished product including the stickers, the booklets, and the original scroll of notes I make before I scan and digitize the final product. On the last page of the book I was able to include a QR code so that readers can take out there smart phones and be automatically directed to the link for the NHRC toolkit. Big shout out to NHRC for spreading the good work of harm reduction and to Trystereo for giving back to the great city of New Orleans.
The inside cover was created from a repeating pattern I made out of harm reduction supplies
