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Event Identity

Seattle Startup Summit 2025

A flexible identity for Seattle’s inaugural AI developer-tools summit.

Promotional videoAI Dev Tools
Role
Brand Design · Motion Design · Art Direction
Deliverables
Promotional Video · Speaker Cards · T-Shirts · Social Assets
Timeline
Two weeks
Seattle Startup Summit team wearing the event identity at The Westin Seattle

Nearly 900 attendees, 80 companies, and 50+ product demos.

Presented by OSS4AI at The Westin Seattle, the inaugural summit connected developers, founders, investors, and technology leaders around AI Dev Tools.

AWS · Microsoft · Databricks · GitHub · Pinecone · J.P. Morgan · Madrona · Acquired

Move fast without losing consistency.

Speaker and program information continued to arrive throughout production. I built reusable rules for type, color, composition, imagery, and hierarchy, then translated them into modular cards that stayed readable across changing content.

Seattle Startup Summit card for startup judge Akanksha Shrivastava
Seattle Startup Summit card for workshop judge Archit Sood

The identity, carried into the venue.

The volunteer T-shirt extended the system from digital promotion into a physical event application.

Front and back designs for purple Seattle Startup Summit volunteer T-shirts
Seattle Startup Summit volunteers wearing the purple event T-shirts

Built to stay useful as the program changed.

The final system let the team add new speakers and information without redesigning every asset from scratch.