Student Portfolio Forum 2023

When concepting for the 2023 Student Portfolio Forum (SPF), AIGA Wichita Co-President Chloe Cloud and I thought about the perspective of many of the students participating in SPF, most of which were about to graduate college and go out into the workplace for the first time. From there, we both started to look at ideas of exploring the unknown and that of self discovery. To model this idea, I came up with some initial moodboards which I then made into a full brand book that pulled inspiration from the branding of NASA and that of famous sci-fi series like Dune, Star Wars and Bladerunner. I wanted the imagery of SPF to be a series of different inter-galactic landscapes to further that idea of exploration and travel. The event featured micro-talk speakers from a wide range of backgrounds and practices including illustrator Meg Wagler and designers Abby Kallenbach, Maddy Best and Ben Ng. Lisa Maione who had previously worked at Pentagram Design, was the featured Keynote Speaker.