I’ve been to a lot of conferences in the last couple of years. Without exception, every one of them has had a badge that is either ugly or useless or, in most cases, both.
So when UX Australia announced their badge design competition, I just had to jump on it.
To make the best badge possible, I decided to share my rough designs on Flickr and get your feedback. The first version went up yesterday and plenty of people left helpful comments, so today I threw together a revised version.
Please do me a favour and click here to see the latest version, and leave a comment on Flickr. It’d also be lovely if you would post a link to Twitter and help me get more feedback. Thanks!
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Matt, finally you care for the real problems in life: boring, choking conferences, thanks!
On Christophers badge the blue part looks like facebook’s logo.
Not too creative . (Dont get mad just, its just my opinion )
I like stephens badge the best
My main gripe with conference badges is when people don’t wear them – in some cases because they consider themselves important enough that everybody knows who they are!
I’ve attended some conferences/conventions where the badge also includes a passport-size photo of the delegate. This has been mainly because the badge also acted as a pass to a number of related events elsewhere in the host city.
At one event the badge/pass also doubled as a free travel pass on the city’s buses/trams/metro for the duration of the convention.
Anyway, I like your design of conference badges, I have found the pictures of them at http://www.picktorrent.com search engine. Thanks for sharing! Have a nice day!
I have been search google and I see your site and this post. It ‘s nice to visit it.
Maybe this theme is boring, but there is nothing to say against creative arrangement. I know of a quite similar contest at a school creating some vip-badges for a soccer game in the german bundesliga