As the sole designer on the project, I was responsible for creating a visual story and design system that conveyed Nissan’s efforts toward inclusion. The challenge was tone. A corporate DEI report could easily be ignored. I wanted it to feel soft, like a safe space to express ideas to celebrate the work Nissan was doing for its employees and its communities.

I landed on a design system of paint strokes and brush-style illustration: warm and handmade against Nissan's blue, carrying everything from section openers to the data. Dense batches of information became illustrated, digestible moments rather than charts — a backpack holding a number, a heart in a hand, figures set into brushed bands. The client, Nissan Group of the Americas (U.S., Canada and Mexico) liked this direction so much that I was given full autonomy to design the rest of the report as I had envisioned it.