Stamp of approval

This marks the end of the conference! Each person gets a stamp commemorating their attendance of this event in their passbook. I guess I could have gone for an even larger circle stamp..

Participant package

The participant package includes the following items:

• A pen
• 8gb USB
• A single pack of swappable pins
• Cotton drawstring backpack
• Conference lanyard and namebadge
• Handbook
• Sponsorbook
• Tee shirt (not pictured above)

Did you Know?

This is a series of posters titled, Did you know? containing interesting facts about Buddhism or BLIA or YAD. The idea was initiated by the fact that the dining hall has Chinese calligraphy paintings on the walls and many of the participants cannot read Chinese, so we were to make an English replacement for the walls that would be equally interesting for them to read.

The difficulty here was finding a font that would be appropriate and easy to read. The poster is placed fairly high up and the text varies in length.

In the end, due to the fact that the English language takes up 2x the space that Chinese characters do, we doubled the width of the posters and added some colour to make it look less serious and more fun.

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.

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!

Conference souvenirs - USB

swag!

The main souvenir for the conference is a USB. We opted for something that felt useful and wasn't something that somebody would want to throw away when they got home. At the end of the conference we're going to put photos, a video summary, and useful documents used during the conference on the drive so participants can take them home and share it with their subdivisions for future use or reference. 

Green is the main theme colour, but the organising committee head has a strong affinity with the colour red so the resulting USB graphics were in red afterwards.