Todd Barsanti
Climate design educator focused on integrating sustainability issues into design education
Designer, educator, environmentalist, husband, and dad (not necessarily in that order), Todd Barsanti is a Professor of Design at Sheridan College. With a focus on design foundations, Todd integrates sustainability issues into design curricula and helps students to understand the positive role they can play in society, as visual communicators.
A professional designer with 20+ years of industry experience in Toronto, ON, Todd has a Master’s degree in Environmental Studies and is a member of the Climate Reality Leadership Corps, dedicated to spreading the reality of our climate crisis through voluntary speaking engagements.
Projects
“This is Not Sustainable” poster series
Built primarily as a means for documenting design processes that use non-traditional materials to create visual communications, Todd wanted to produce a series of posters that communicate messages of sustainability.
Each poster combines materials that show dichotomies in our own production processes that are unsustainable.
Electricity generated by coal-fired power plants, industrialized farming practices where corn feed is predominantly used, and oil production processes that have adverse affects on our natural environment.
Case study »
Logo design for Community Climate Hub
Community Climate Hub is an initiative of Climate Reality Project Canada.
Not only did I create the parent logo, but also logos for each local Climate Hub, across Canada (50+ and growing).
Climate Hubs help unify voices around a shared vision for decarbonization and advance their communities along the milestone process set out by the Federation of Canadian Municipalities.