CRC18 organizers asked me to develop a protest-y/glitch-y blog for their rhetoric conference. The theme was public engagement, counter-publics. I had to work within a blue, grey, black, white color scheme.

NOTE: Users had the ability to turn the glitch effects on and off for the sake of site readability.

Being a student organization, the CRC had no money to spend on site assets. The icons, images, and fonts needed to come from open-source or royalty-free archives. I would have made the assets myself, but I didn't have long to put the site together — a week (and I was also attending classes and teaching).

The time restrains weren't that bad considering that the organizers wanted a minimal, flat design. I managed to get the site up and running in time for the CFP.

The CRC organizers wanted attendees of the conference to use the website for paper submissions. The also wanted live news updates and social interaction. I accomplished this with a simple mailing form and an integrated Twitter hashtag. Whenever anybody tweeted #crc18, their words hit the homepage. Official CRC tweets were given priority.

The organizers were happy with the final product — though they changed the wallpaper. Now that the conference is over, I can't imagine that the blog will be up much longer. A non-functional version is available through archive.org.