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BSides Las Vegas
2021 branding

Year: 2021

Client: BSides Las Vegas

Industry: Information Security

Project: BSides Las Vegas is a two-day conference that normally runs on Tuesday and Wednesday, just before Def Con. Despite there being no in-person con this year, the virtual conference was a big success.

This year’s logo is inspired by the fact that hackers call the con season “Hacker Summer Camp.” So we used summer camp elements alonside tropes associated with staying in the comfort and safety of our homes, communing in cyberspace, while the pandemic rages on in meatspace.

Contribution: Logo concept, design, themed elements, stickers, emoji, OBS frames, and social assets.

Special shoutout to Spam, Lickity, Knarph and so many others on Discord and behind the scenes for assembling and executing the live video streaming operation under intense circumstances. You nailed it so hard.

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Human Process

Appropriately, I sketched everything here by the campfire during a long, midsummer camping trip in the Catskills.
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