Swag
Various physical items I’ve designed to celebrate successful feature launches, design systems, and company retreats.
Owning Your Seat at the Table
Nearly every team at Trello has an offsite at least once a year. The design team has one too, and each year’s offsite has a different theme. For 2019, our focus was “Owning Your Seat at the Table”. Designers as well as other folks from Trello gave inspirational and informative talks to the team that contributed to the overall theme.
When brainstorming with my colleague Stu Smith, I knew I wanted to include the message of each talk in whatever we ended up with: mastery, confidence, partnership, influence, questioning, and engagement. My final design ended up on tote bags, postcards, and engraved water bottles. Stu engraved them in his garage!
Trello Together 2017
Every year, Trello has an all-company retreat where the team engages in team building exercises, charity games, and relaxation. Trello usually has special swag items created for these retreats, and I had the privilege to come up with the design for 2017’s retreat in Scottsdale, AZ.
My goal was to incorporate custom typography, imagery that would be reminiscent of Arizona’s landscape, and a nod to Trello’s mascot, Taco (that never barks — he only says “Roo”).
Decaf
There was a huge undertaking for some of the developers at Trello, removing coffee script from everything. The project was called Decaf. The team leads running the project wanted a swag item that wasn’t a t-shirt, and after chatting with them a bit, we decided to make everyone coffee mugs.
Outside of that, the design itself was up to me. I thought a fun motif would be to have the iconic orange coffee pot, used for decaffeinated coffee in most American diners, as a pattern all over the mugs.
Nachos
The design team at Trello took on the task of creating a design system. It was a daunting task, but the team pulled through it. To celebrate, we wanted a commemorative item that wasn’t yet another t-shirt. All we knew is that we wanted to make sure it included the fun and minimal Nachos logo.
I took the opportunity to get enamel lapel pins made along with special backing cards as a token of thanks to all the designers and devs that worked on the project.
