Awards Bronze Winner - Event Concept
The 16th Global Eventex Awards, 2026
Event Skoll World Forum 2025
April 1 to 4, 2025
New Theatre, SBS Oxford, plus virtual access
With Phil Collis (Creative Director), Lindsey Ojok (Concept), Gabriel Diamond (Video), Partytechture (Event Tech), and the Skoll Foundation with the Caspian Agency
The Eventex Awards were founded in 2009 to celebrate creativity, innovation, and effectiveness in the events industry. The 16th edition, held in 2026, drew a record 1,405 entries from 58 countries, with winners recognized at the Grand Prix, Platinum, Gold, Silver, and Bronze levels.
The Skoll World Forum is an invite-only event in Oxford that accelerates solutions to global challenges. It gathers 1,500+ leaders across sectors for learning and collaboration, and it is hosted by the Skoll Foundation, which champions innovators building a better world.
The 2025 Forum earned a Bronze award in the Event Concept category. Its concept, led by Lindsey Ojok, anchored the Forum on kintsugi, the Japanese art of repairing broken ceramics with gold, as a way to face division honestly and find beauty in repair.
My part was to turn that concept into a visual identity that delegates could see and feel at every touchpoint. I designed the signature Skoll ‘O’ mark and led the identity across web, social, and on-site experiences.
A visual language for the concept. The identity paired real social issue photographs with a ceramic ring that is broken and rejoined in gold, so every image carried a story from the field and the repair became part of its value. I directed external 3D artists, illustrators, and developers against one shared design system.
One idea at every touchpoint. The same language ran through the main visual, announcement and speaker graphics, social and quote content, the microsite and app UI, and the exhibition graphics across the Oxford venues.
On stage and on screen. The identity carried into animated transitions and the screens on the main stage, where it sat between the two gold-veined stage pieces.
Why it mattered to the award. The entry argued that every element, from the visual identity to the animated transitions, reinforced that beauty emerges from brokenness. The design system is what let that idea read as a lived experience rather than decoration.
