David Foster Wallace Conference 2020

I got my first opportunity to design the logo for the David Foster Wallace Conference in 2014 and it’s been a great relationship over the years. The 2020 conference is being put on by the The International David Foster Wallace Society and held in Austin, TX, June 4-6 of next year.

With the venue change, I wanted to break out of the old circle motif and try something new. The new logo is inspired by the cloud imagery that appears on the cover of a few editions of Infinite Jest. The circles are still present, but as overlapping shapes that mirror the plot structure of Infinite Jest - sort of a Venn diagram of characters and scenes.