Interventions

year: 2019
role: conference designer at Scout

Interventions is an annual conference built and run entirely by students in Scout. It's also a celebration of design's implications in the worlds of politics, STEM, sociology, and more—2019's Interventions: Narrative paid special attention to storytelling in and through design. As one of two designers on the conference team, we had three months to conceptualize and execute a design vision in a completely foreign and utterly challenging medium: collage.

All work done in collaboration with Katherine Chao and Christina Allan.

GENERAL POSTER

I designed two versions of a general event poster—the first paid homage to the previous year's theme with a hint of the old poster in the top corner, and the second visually highlighted specific aspects of the conference that might be interesting to passers-by. Every element of the posters, from the scribbles to the torn paper, was hand-crafted by us.

SOCIAL MEDIA

Spreading the word on Instagram is key to any successful event. I designed two square Instagram posts and three vertical Instagram Story posts. It was a fun challenge to consider how the brand elements could inhabit these digital formats.

WAYFINDING

I designed a variety of large a-frames and easels for guests to find their way to and around the event. It's one thing to see them on a tiny screen—witnessing these printed at full-size the day of the event was pretty cool.

photo by Alex Melagrano

BADGES

photo by Alex Melagrano

EVENT BOOKLET

GENERAL POSTER

Our final hurrah as designers was designing the 20-page day-of-event booklet that included everything from the schedule to speaker bios. Below are a few of my favorite spreads.