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For five years, we’ve created event branding for America’s most recognized human rights organization, and a different visual language every time.
Amnesty International USA’s Annual General Meeting (AGM) is their largest gathering of human rights activists, members, movement leaders, and allies. Since 2022, Teal has provided flexible event branding across both physical and digital environments.Every year Amnesty comes to us with the same challenge: make something we haven’t seen before.
The process always starts with fast, collaborative working sessions to gut-check emerging ideas, establish brand guardrails, and narrow in on visual inspiration. A creative brief follows, centralizing an overall strategic vision before any design begins. The resulting identities balance Amnesty’s brand equity–the iconic yellow and Amnesty Trade Gothic typeface–with fresh graphic concepts grounded in the year’s specific causes and context.
In 2026, Amnesty’s message was unambiguous: we do not yield to injustice, oppression, or intimidation. In the face of relentless pressure, Amnesty does not break. Amnesty holds the line with the conviction that a better future requires us to get down and dirty to defend it.
The thematic concept is inspired by dystopian films of the early 2000s, which are works full of fierce hope and rough-and-tumble aesthetics. The AGM26 logo embodies this concept through a dove-like symbol, which can stack, lock-together, and move across lay-outs. That same form transforms into flexible barbed wire that frames content and leads the eye, a deliberate reference to Amnesty’s iconic candle-wrapped-in-wire mark. Amnesty’s Trade Gothic font takes on subtle customizations to match the dove’s curvature. Subtle camo background-patterns represent grit and camaraderie. Grid lines draw from tactical schematics to anchor the layouts in a visual language that feels operational, not decorative.
Every element is designed to activate and ready folks for the fight at hand and the fight to come.
AGM 2025 was held in Detroit, and that choice was itself a statement. Detroit is a city that has stood at the center of American social movements — labor rights, civil rights, community organizing.
The AGM25 brand treated the city not as a backdrop but as a primary source. Industrial motifs grounded the identity in Detroit’s history as an automotive capital. Steel and chainlink elements add dimensionality to designs.
The labor movement’s spirit of collective power runs through a modular visual system, which came to life in downtown Detroit across podiums, signage, and merchandise. The result was a brand that didn’t describe solidarity. It looked like it.
AGM 2024 made a simple argument: Each person is a small but necessary piece of a greater whole. Together, we light things up and activate our voices, our spaces, and our communities.
Teal translated that idea through connective lines that travel and pulse across the DC landscape. Glow and blur treatments suggest the magnetism of people in motion, while repetitive type treatments convey the disruptive and relentless resilience of social movements. Amnesty’s electrifying yellow is balanced against a deep indigo: playing on the contrast of darkness and light.
The empowerment, activation, and unity of activists is matched by a brand with the same spirit.
AGM 2023 was Amnesty’s first in-person conference since 2019. After years of virtual gatherings during the COVID-19 pandemic, the brand needed to make people feel like they were finally back together.
Two powerful words drove the identity: togetherness and energy. The logo is simultaneously comforting, through nested houses, and electrifying, through neon colors. A handwritten accent font pulls in human warmth, while Amnesty Trade Gothic in italics provides drives forward-motion. A complimentary icon system lights up themes of peace and love.
People came together, from homes all over the country to reunite and recharge. Attendees experienced the brand: they wore it, posed with a custom neon sign, and took pieces of it home. For a community reconvening after years apart, that tangibility mattered.
AGM 2022 tied activists and issues together through a literal thread. The thread loops and reveals “resilience activism,” which is what powers Amnesty and powers progress. Flexibility is found in the graphic element as it takes the form of activists and also becomes a vessel for repeated typography.
The Labor Force is building a new kind of infrastructure for the labor movement. We created a bold new identity and website that better reflect the scale and ambition of its work, helping the organization stand out with greater clarity and credibility, and open new doors with partners and funders.
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