{"id":267,"date":"2007-08-10T09:37:06","date_gmt":"2007-08-10T17:37:06","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2016-05-25T23:34:30","modified_gmt":"2016-05-26T06:34:30","slug":"gnomedex-no-stinkin-badges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/archive\/2007\/08\/gnomedex-no-stinkin-badges","title":{"rendered":"Gnomedex: No Stinkin&#8217; Badges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Pirillo&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gnomedex.com\" target=\"_blank\">Gnomedex conference<\/a> kicked off last night in Seattle and the turnout looked fantastic. Lots of people from out of town, and a <a href=\"http:\/\/bellharbor.com\" target=\"_blank\">great venue<\/a> to boot. The thing that pleased me more than anything else at the pre-conference party though was the design of the conference badges. Gnomedex badges are big and bold, with visual real estate doled out in almost perfect proportions. I <a href=\"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/archive\/2007\/04\/building-a-better-conference-badge\">wrote about the issue of carelessly designed conference badges<\/a> a few months ago, and upon congratulating <a href=\"http:\/\/chris.pirillo.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Chris<\/a> on his conference last night, he informed me that the Gnomedex badge design was inspired by that article.  Hooray for design evangelism!<\/p>\n<p>Below is a photo of the badges snapped by <a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/laughingsquid\/1069270492\/\">Laughing Squid<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/inline\/gnomedexbadge.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 1px solid #000\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>Positives:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Attendee name is huge and readable from far away &#8212; set in <del>Univers<\/del> <ins>Helvetica Neue<\/ins> Condensed Black, an extremely legibile, yet space-efficient typeface.<\/li>\n<li>Attendee&#8217;s blog URL (instead of company) is listed below name. A nice touch considering the subject matter of Gnomedex.<\/li>\n<li>Title of conference and all other non-essential information is minimized.<\/li>\n<li>Sponsor (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.polarrose.com\" target=\"_blank\">Polar Rose<\/a>) is all over the lanyard instead of mucking up half the badge.<\/li>\n<li>Badge is two-sided.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Potential Negatives (Not many!):<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><code>http:\/\/<\/code> could theoretically be lopped off the blog URL to increase the size and readability of the URL, but one could argue the prefix adds geek appeal.<\/li>\n<li>A commenter on my previous entry suggested perhaps emphasizing the person&#8217;s *given* name so you know what to call them.  This is more important in other countries though where names don&#8217;t always follow the &#8220;call me by the first name you see on my badge&#8221; rule. Not really fair to call this a negative, but it would be a nice potential issue to solve.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Oh, and there&#8217;s another big positive too. This has got to be the coolest badge ever.  Party only! &#8212;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/inline\/partyonly.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"460\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 1px solid #000\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Pirillo&#8217;s Gnomedex conference kicked off last night in Seattle and the turnout looked fantastic. Lots of people from out of town, and a great venue to boot. The thing that pleased me more than anything else at the pre-conference party though was the design of the conference badges. Gnomedex badges are big and bold, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,282],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","category-original"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}