06/11/2022
The State of the Union is an annual conference organised by . The 2022 edition was held on 5-7 May and counted 135 speakers, 43 sessions, 5 streams and 40+ hours of recordings. Worldwide policy leaders and experts such as Roberta Metsola and European Commission High Representative gathered in Florence to discuss the most pressing issues on the European agenda.
Even if the event was held in a hybrid format, the majority of the speakers participated in person in the stunning venues of Badia Fiesolana and Palazzo Vecchio, along with an audience of over 500 people, while nearly 12K people attended via the live stream.
SOU2022 was possible thanks the precious support of 41 local and international partners.
Working for such an event meant having a constant dialogue with a big team and many partners, starting with the SOU Secretariat who managed logistics, organisation and financing of the event, and then working face to face with EUI staff (Web unit, Photo and video team) and media partners such as , , .tv , , , and external supporting partners (Tecnoconference, , SSD Grafica and .imaging ).
In the months before the conference I was supported in everyday tasks by EUI design team made up of and .
When I joined the SOU team, the concept of the 2022 visual identity had already been designed by my colleague , with the supervision of ; my job therefore consisted in preparing digital and printed material for the conference for the next months.
I initially worked on the animations concerning the five streams and the layout of the video streaming. At the same time I created contents for the SOU website with the support of the web unit, and then I dedicated myself to the press campaign for our international media partners.
Subsequently, together with the design team, I designed all the printed media (above all the huge backdrops for the five stages). Once the conference was over, I dedicated myself to the design and creation of the final report.
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