Antisyphon Hackdown: 2023
timeframe:
December 2022—March 2023
roles:
illustration ✍🏻
branding 🪴
logo design 🌭
fig. 1 - the first social media graphic made for the virtual summit.
background
Antisyphon Hackdown was a virtual summit for red team cybersecurity professionals to increase their knowledge and hacking skills. The summit theme was based around the Mad Max movie series and I was in charge of designing the summit logo, general branding, and social media graphics.
fig. 2 - the final branding board.
challenges
Antisyphon Training has a fondness for 8-bit illustration, so it was obvious I needed to incorporate the style. I had made 8-bit style graphics before for Antisyphon, but this was the first time I used a more painterly way of illustrating an 8-bit scene. 8-bit illustration and its limitations made it difficult to add detail while still making the image readable.
fig. 3 - two final social media graphics with custom 8-bit illustrations
results
I finished the project with a logo, branding, and three social media graphics in an 8-bit illustration style. The resulting illustrations are engaging and fluid, but cohesive with its limited color palette and fairly simple branding.
what i learned
Using Photoshop to paint in an 8-bit illustration style
- Brand development for a virtual summit