KERN is a hypothetical annual design conference that celebrates the art of typography—bringing together typographers, font designers, and letterers from around the world. After two seasons of virtual gatherings on Zoom, the conference made its long-awaited return to an in-person format in 2022, hosted in the vibrant and creative city of Austin, Texas.

For this project, I collaborated with Virginia Liu to design a flexible conference logo system and develop a cohesive typographic layout system that unifies all visual touchpoints across the event.