IBLYARC handbooks

A series of covers were made for the conference handbook. The handbook holds the conference schedule, rules and regulations, and all sorts of handy information. I assumed there would be a little more freedom with the design so I threw some more fun ideas into the mix.

In the end, none of them were chosen and a cover made for the sponsorbook was revamped for the handbook.

Conference souvenirs - teeshirts

Choices, choices. Since the bags ended up as red, I went to look for something that wouldn't interfere too much with the red backpack. There was a moment of alarm when the committee head asked for a red shirt, but we fixed that. Ash grey seemed like a pretty safe idea, but in the end we went for white.

Sponsorbook sketchbook pages

Working on a hunch for a background for the sponsor pages. A light image of the youth working together, happy and collaborating, and on top, are our sponsors, helping us make it happen.

Nametags, lanyards

Lanyards are for keeps, but the nametag usually just gets thrown away. The biggest difficulty was actually in finding a supplier who will get us 3/4" wide lanyards for cheap at a small volume. Who would have guessed these one-time-use neck things cost so much! Even though the design was approved early, we couldn't find a reasonable supplier until a few months later and forgoing local Canadian distributers. 

For the lanyard, I thought it would be fun to place the maple flag in the center. It gives it more of a graphic element to the whole piece. I also did some more serious looking ones just in case. The Olympics was a good visual resource for these. On the back of the neck is the Toronto cityscape, or a Canadian icon so when people are taking photos you'll still be able to see something if you're turned around.

For the nametags, there were originally four colour distributions for different levels of participants, staff, participant, venerable, and special guest. However, we boiled it down to just two for two colours: participants and staff. Special guests received a pin badge and a corsage instead.

Graduation

That's it! Four years (five including a year abroad) ago just classmates and now pretty much family.

Woohoo! Also, I found out that Wonjoon was fooling me the entire time in second year about failing students  T_T

Conference souvenirs - pins

The logo is round, pins are also round. So hey, why not!
Even though I don't really like pins, I'm pretty excited about the turnout for this souvenir. We made four designs in four colours and will be handing them out at random to encourage participants to swap and trade their pins with their new friends.

Who's ready for some "choowaa bing"?

I was thinking of a witty slogan for shaved ice, but I realised that only people in my generation and younger would get it and all the adults would be left confused.

Conference souvenirs - backpack

One of the souvenirs for the conference is a drawstring backpack. These are handy because participants have stuff to hold like their schedule, notebooks, pens, waterbottle, and etc.

I suggested tote bags, but tote bags are apparently girly, so we went for backpacks. Finding a good supplier who can get us a good quote for such a small volume was one of the biggest difficulties here. Second was finding a cheap canvas or cotton tote, rather than going for that wishy-washy weird-feeling waterproof material. Nonetheless we found one in the states and got it shipped to us JUST IN TIME for the conference.

I made four options to choose from. The bag was requested to be in a red colour, and the more colours you screenprint the pricier it gets so I kept everything white.

Final decision! We went with this one!

A passport stamp

For each conference, a stamp is stamped into the participants' YAD passport marking their attendance to the year's conference. I was looking to make something very immigration-like. A play on the fact that it is a "passport stamp". 

However, in execution, the reality was that there were size constraints, cost constraints, and even shape constraints on the stamp. Plus, the text could not get too small or else they will turn into a blob..especially Chinese characters. 

What's neat was that I worked with a stamp-maker remotely through online video chatting and screensharing as we shared my ai file. Technology these days! I was pretty impressed since my own skype can't really hold a stable connection on most days.