Project overview

When designing social infrastructure projects for disadvantaged communities in developing nations, one cannot underestimate the importance of designers and architects consulting with communities prior to commencing a project that will impact their people.   

The ‘Help us, help you’ publication discusses the development of social infrastructure projects in developing communities — more specifically, the importance of undertaking community-based design in such communities. The publication acts as an information piece to provide an overview of the topic to an audience unfamiliar with community-based design as a concept.  

The ‘Help us, help you’ publication is a unique piece that adopts a clean, contemporary aesthetic with hand drawn illustrations as imagery. As the designer on this project, my role involved developing the content, designing the document layout, and the creation of illustrations and hand-made typeface.