beyond tellerrand is one of the most interesting and inspiring digital conferences on the European continent to date — the care that Marc puts into crafting this unique event always shines through, creating a special vibe like no other.
Design for Berlin 2023 by Mike Kus
When I start planning an event, one part is to find a designer for certain assets of the event. Typically that is the t-shirt, a coffee mug, the opening titles and sometimes a few other bits and peaces. Mostly I adapt the t-shirt design to the rest of the assets like the mug for example. This time my friend Mike Kus contacted me before the Berlin edition and asked, whether I had found someone to design the t-shirt already. When I said no, he stated that he’d like to design all the assets. That was absolutely cool, as he, in just a few days, came up with a PDF and plenty of things he designed.
The overall design is based around the theme of creativity in 2023 in the face of AI and the coffee mug stated “A creative high without AI”. He also designed a set of different posters and I adapted the base design for the slides to create a different poster for each of the speakers also.
For the t-shirts Mike created various ideas. I went with the slogan “A creative high without AI” here as well, which was designed in a shape of a balloon. But different to past years we printed it onto the back of the t-shirt and the front got a little “beyond tellerrand” logo on the upper left. Different to past years, where I usually print the t-shirt design in a different colour onto a different coloured t-shirt for the team, we also had extra team t-shirts. Red t-shirts with a print on the back stating “Team Tellerrand Berlin 2023 – here to help” and a small “team tellerrand” on the front. I still need to get the left over t-shirts into our shop and then you can take a look ;)
In addition we created a small notebook as well as some pencils. It is great to have everything speaking the same language visually, to be honest and I always enjoy the play and like to see what people come up with, when they create their design for an upcoming show. I also still like the idea not to spoil the design for an upcoming event and have the attendees see it for the very first time, when they enter the venue. Like a bit of the reward of being at the event actually.
A few of those things are left over and you can get them at one of the next festivals. Left over t-shirts will be in our shop soon – I still need to count them.
The next one is taking place in Düsseldorf again. The line-up is complete and all but one speaker revealed. In case you want to join us, be quick, tickets selling fast.
See you there!