We encourage total creativity and celebration of avian life on campus and beyond through your design. While you should not feel limited by the window decal designs implemented elsewhere and should make your design uniquely your own, feel free to take a look the decal designs implemented at several different institutions below:
University of British Columbia
Window art installed outside the Loop Cafe on the UBC campus. Winning design submitted by Lora Zosia Moon, a PhD candidate in English who says the “artwork focuses on intimacy and intricacy.” (Photo by Corim De Guzman, as posted on https://sustain.ubc.ca/stories/bird-friendly-art-saves-feathered-lives)
A detail from Lora Zosia Moon’s artwork (as posted on https://sustain.ubc.ca/stories/bird-friendly-art-saves-feathered-lives).
Forrest Shimazu, Brandeis '24, winner of the campuswide bird strike decal design competition!
Forrest's design is installed on Shiffman Hall and is based on his photographs of native species. He composed the design to reflect the fact that since 1970, nearly one out of three birds in the U.S. and Canada has vanished.
(Photo by Jazz Dottin, posted on Instagram @createatbrandeis)
Brandeis University
Stewardship Centre for British Columbia
(Photo by Guillem de Balanzo, as posted on https://stewardshipcentrebc.ca/dos-and-donts-of-bird-window-stickers/)
In September 2024, the University of Windsor installed their first bird-safe window on the second floor of the CAW Student Centre. The winner, Manpreet Bhachu, a fourth-year integrative biology student, designed this vinyl decal which incorporates drawings of birds which can be found in Windsor along with other pollinators. This installation, titled ‘The Feather Friends of Windsor’ was the product of a Bird Friendly Campus initiative which started in October 2022 with the help of a small group of passionate students, the Ornithology Club, the Sustainability Office and Pelee Island Bird Observatory. (as posted on the Fatal Light Awareness Program Canada Facebook page, https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1BYGwGbJXb/)
University of Windsor
Temple University
Bird collision-proof window art, by student Jill Schlegel. (Photo by J. Schlegel and Temple University, as seen on https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/this-beautiful-window-art-also-saves-birds-lives-134778184/)