New Orleans Community Fridges
The New Orleans Community Fridges are grassroots mutual aid spaces that provide free food to anyone who needs it, stocked by volunteers, local residents, and small businesses who believe food is a basic right.
As my undergraduate capstone project, I designed an informational system to increase awareness of and access to community fridges across New Orleans. The project addresses a real gap: fridge locations and contribution guidelines are scattered across social media and word-of-mouth, making them hard to find for people who need them most.
My solution combines a user-friendly digital platform — built and coded in HTML — with a suite of printed materials including brochures, flyers, and printable templates. Together, these resources centralize scattered information and make food access easier to locate, understand, and use.
Digital map of Community Fridge Network, coded in HTML.
My Role:
Solo designer and researcher. I conducted user research to understand how people currently find fridges, developed the brand identity from scratch, and produced both the digital and print deliverables.
This project was completed as part of Tulane University's senior capstone program. The brand system, printable resources, and interactive map are designed for real-world handoff to the New Orleans Community Fridges network.
Tools: Adobe Illustrator, HTML/CSS
