A new biennial conference series on Language, Data and Knowledge (LDK) aims at bringing together researchers from across disciplines concerned with the acquisition, curation and use of language data in the context of data science and knowledge-based applications.
Photographed by me after installing the signs, in the background, the NUI Galway Quadrangle building, an iconic building of Galway.
Language data is of increasing importance to machine learning-based approaches in NLP, Linked Data and Semantic Web research and applications that depend on linguistic and semantic annotation with lexical, terminological and ontological resources, manual alignment across language or other human-assigned labels.
Logo
I started by creating the logo for the conference, which required a deep understanding of language data and its uses.
Concept
The logo concept depends on the idea of creating a digital mindset that makes machines think like humans about language. I used a simple sans-serif font to display the name. I tried to follow the golden ratio in the design of the main icon.
Long & short name stacked logo versions.
Theme
Since knowledge is the core point of the conference, and since knowledge is a collective labour, I thought of researchers as bees working collectively to make the honey, the knowledge. That's why the theme of the designs used hexagons to show that piece-by-piece we, humans, can reach a bigger picture of knowledge.
The theme was first introduced in an A4 flyer that was advertising the conference.
Photos credits go to my colleagues and myself for the beautiful city of Galway. The first photo on top left is for an Irish writing system called ogham.
The backside of the flyer shows full data about the conference.
Designs
From the designs I made for the conference, I selected the following to show:
- A2 Poster.
- Award.
- Badges: which also needed me to create a software that handles printing them from a sheet with special fields on each badge.
- Notebooks and pens.
- Dinner ticket.
- Cardboard folder.
- Leather folder.
- Rollup.
- Tote bag.
