DIS Conference Branding
I was hired to design branding for the 2019 Designing Interactive Systems (DIS) Conference. DIS is “the premier international and interdisciplinary conference encompassing all issues related to the design and deployment of interactive systems where designers, artists, theorists, psychologists, user experience researchers, systems engineers and many more come together to debate and shape the future of interaction systems research, design, and practice.” The theme of the 2019 conference in San Diego was ‘Contesting Borders and Intersections,’ thinking about how “both borders and intersections are simultaneously about separation, margins, and friction as well as opportunities, promises, and imaginaries where alternative and diverse modes of engagements can be made possible and unfold.”
Additionally, DIS partnered with the Creativity and Cognition conference and offered overlapping programming. As such, I thought typographically about how the forms could relate.
For the mark, I was influenced by road signs and how it could represent contesting borders and intersections. In addition to developing a static mark, I created a system of marks and warning symbols that could work in unison.
This piece received a 2020 Graphic Design USA American Graphic Design Award.