ENVIRONMENTAL ILLUSTRATION
Communicate complex environmental science or engineering concepts to diverse and non-technical audiences through environmental illustration.
Environmental Niche
LVB specializes in conceptualizing rivers, wetlands, watersheds, springs and aquifer systems, wildlife habitat, ecosystem services, climate change, renewable energy, regenerative agriculture, forest health and natural hazards (drought, flood, wildfire.)
Clients & Collaborators
LVB works with and for environmental service firms, research scientists, water resource engineers, federal, state, and local government agencies, conservation organizations, watershed groups, and academic and research institutions.
Illustration Services
Creative brief consultation, project research, sketch compositional drafts, compositional refinements, final illustration production in multi-media format (hand-drawn and digital illustration) graphic design formatting, and final art file packaging.
Future Scenario Illustrations
Future scenario illustrations help your audience visualize and imagine the climate-related risks to plan for a more resilient future. Climate scientists and environmental researchers use scenario-based modeling and forecasting to predict future outcomes based on action or inaction. Future scenario illustrations help stakeholders and decision-makers imagine future possibilities to plan for resiliency.
Wildfire & Forest Illustrations
Inform and engage your audience about forest health and severe wildfire risks. Illustrate your strategy for managing multi-jurisdictional and cross-boundary natural hazards. Communicate shared values, goals, and activities with diverse stakeholders, from experts to local residents. Foster appreciation for risks, relationships and responsibilities. Provide approachable and accessible graphics and visual aids for community outreach campaigns.
Landscape Vignette Illustrations
Landscape vignettes are stylized illustrations of landscape scenes used for environmental storytelling. They illustrate the landscape’s physical character, such as its ecotone, vegetation, natural features, landforms, cultural and physical landmarks, climate, creatures, and land use. These little landscape sketches started as a way to add dimension to illustrated storytelling maps. Create a whimsical view of your natural resource and highlight what’s worth protecting.
Illustrated Field Guides
Take your audience on a virtual field trip with an illustrated field guide. Orient a visitor to the key features and improvements of your ecosystem restoration demonstration site. Illustrated field guides can point out the design intent, construction methods, and natural processes hidden from view. Map the connection between the desired goals and outcomes, built work, and restored functions and processes. Work with a designer who speaks your language.
Land and River Management BMPs
Clearly illustrate land management and restoration best management practices such as streambank stabilization, topsoil conservation, groundwater recharge, and protecting or enhancing natural habitat. LVB supports the work of land managers and river stewards. LVB’s expertise in restoration ecology, watershed management, and river restoration helps you translate your technical BMPs into an easily understood visual language.
Dam Removal Renderings
Generate free-flowing conversation around your river reach or dam removal project with river restoration renderings. LVB works with your team to translate engineering concepts into illustrated plans, perspectives, and birds-eye renderings. We use historical maps, engineering plan sets, river elevation profiles, and site photography to visualize your river’s future or past conditions. Turn uncertainty to enthusiasm with a picture of the future that your audience can understand.
Ecological Conceptual Model Illustration
Conceptual models illustrate ecological processes in a landscape from the past, present, and future to illustrate the impacts of natural hazards (fire, flood, drought) and imagine potentially resilient future states. LVB supports the work of watershed managers and forest health experts. Ecological conceptual models create a visual framework to help guide your project planning and track progress towards adaptive management goals and outcomes.
Ecosystem Restoration Design Illustrations
LVB translates technical and bio-engineered details and concepts into easily understood illustrations and graphics to communicate your project plan to your client, stakeholders, and grant funders. LVB specializes in interpreting ecosystem and river restoration engineering drawings and construction details into stand-out visual aids that quickly convey meaning and add extra dimension to your technical plan sets and stakeholder presentations.
Translate the technically complex into easily understood graphics that speak to your audience.
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