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PyCon Africa
Creative direction and communications for an international Python community conference.
- Role
- Communications & Design Team Lead
- Type
- Creative Direction · Brand · Community · Campaign
- Year
- 2026 — Present
Challenge
PyCon Africa needed communications and design that could hold an international community — clear enough for a conference, human enough for a continent-wide conversation.
Approach
The work sat at the intersection of brand, campaign and communications: one visual and verbal system that could introduce the event, gather the community and stay coherent across channels.
Design
Direction focused on a confident, continental presence — design that could travel across speakers, partners and audiences without losing the character of the community.
Execution
Campaign and communications materials were built for the channels a conference actually lives on: social, announcements, and the surfaces that carry a community toward a shared date.
Impact
4,500 → 5,080+12.9%
LinkedIn growth
Frames
International community work is a design problem and a leadership problem. The system has to be clear enough that many people can carry it.