Eco Jurisprudence Monitor

The Eco Jurisprudence Monitor (EJM) is an academic project tracking a growing body of law: legislation around the world that grants rights to rivers, forests and ecosystems. The subject is two things at once, and they don't share a vocabulary. On one side, courts, statutes, jurisdictions. On the other, the rivers and forests themselves. The logo holds both as a double hemisphere: one half political and legal, one half physical and ecological. It describes our relationship with nature as something seen through two lenses at once. It's the argument the project makes: these are not separate subjects, and the interesting thing is what happens where they meet. The rest stays warm. The primary typeface is Herbik by Counter Forms, a serif that reads as academic and welcoming. Everything else is set in Geist and Geist Mono. The photography sits behind a glass lenticular effect, nature visible but not quite reachable, refracted slightly. It illustrates how the research observes a changing relationship, creating an interesting distance with nature.