The
Ability
Experience

Brand identity and collateral for The Ability Experience’s 40th anniversary.

An anniversary mark, iconography, a commemorative print, and cycling kits.

Ability Experience cyclist riding toward the camera in an orange and blue kit
Role
Brand Designer
Client
The Ability Experience
Type
Identity & Collateral

01 / Anniversary moment

The 40th-anniversary identity

A 40th-anniversary brand package for the philanthropy that rides coast to coast every summer.

The Ability Experience is the philanthropy of Pi Kappa Phi Fraternity, connecting student members with people with disabilities through cycling events and community programs. For the organization's 40th anniversary, I built an iconography system, an illustrated commemorative print, and cycling kits worn by nearly 100 student riders traveling coast to coast.

The illustrated print shows the philanthropy’s origins and volunteer projects from across the country. The same iconography carried into cycling kits worn by riders on the journey from the West Coast to Washington, D.C.

The Ability Experience 40th anniversary illustrated print
Illustrated commemorative print · 40th anniversary

02 / Identity system

Anniversary mark and iconography

The same symbols appear in the anniversary identity, commemorative print, and cycling kits.

Artifact · Anniversary mark

The anniversary mark.

Primary and alternate marks, shown with early explorations.

The Ability Experience 40th anniversary primary logo, alternate logo, and early explorations
Early Ability Experience iconography sketches
Iconography explorations
Final orange Ability Experience iconography combining places, events, values, and cycling symbols
Final iconography system

System relationship

From mark to application

Recruitment collateral · 2019

A recruitment handout for 2019.

The two-sided handout combines program stories, participant photography, and a call to action.

Outside panels of the 2019 Ability Experience recruitment handout
Inside panels of the 2019 Ability Experience recruitment handout

03 / Cycling kits

The identity
in motion.

I applied the anniversary iconography to cycling kits for Gear Up Florida and Journey of Hope.

Applied identity

Applying the anniversary identity to the ride.

Ability Experience cycling kit in use during a team ride
The kits on a team ride
Cycling kit designs from 2017 through 2019
Cycling kit designs, 2017–2019
People wearing Ability Experience cycling kits
The cycling kits in use
SC56 event backdrop map for The Ability Experience
Event map and backdrop

Résumé overview

Victor Tran

  1. Visual Designer, IBM watsonx Orchestrate

    IBM watsonx Orchestrate · January 2024–Present

  2. Visual Designer, IBM Cloud

    IBM Cloud · January 2021–December 2023

  3. Assistant Executive Director of Communications

    Pi Kappa Phi Fraternity Headquarters & The Ability Experience · September 2018–January 2021

  4. Graphic Designer

    Pi Kappa Phi Fraternity Headquarters & The Ability Experience · July 2016–August 2018

Western Michigan University · BFA, Graphic Design

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