Design a full event identity and website from one key visual

Jessie Chang, not a designer, spent two days and 46 versions with Claude turning one illustration into speaker cards, stage backdrop, social assets and a bilingual event website.

Done withClaude· Oct 29, 2026

What they did

Chang organises a mental health festival in Taipei with 11 speakers. A designer had drawn the key visual; everything after that she made with Claude. She gave it the illustration, two covers by an editorial designer she admired, the speaker sheet and the event links, and asked for a guest line-up, a stage backdrop and on-site material such as tickets, a booklet and signs. Over two days Claude produced speaker cards, share posters, story and LinkedIn images, a magazine spread, event page covers, an event-edition logo and a bilingual, mobile-first website with animated type and flip cards for the speakers, hosted on GitHub Pages with share previews set up.

How it went

The first version ignored the reference style, crammed the type and redrew her animals instead of using them. She pushed back hard and asked Claude to explain the reasoning behind each design choice, which she says helped most. After 46 versions every speaker got a ready-made pack of images labelled by platform, and the site went live. She turned the rules she learned into a Claude skill so the next event takes about two hours.

Worth knowing

Most of the rework came from vague instructions: say what you like about a reference, say the original art must be used as is, and say who will read it and what matters most. The post does not say which Claude surface or plan she used. The skill is public in her repository.

Try it

With Claude· 9 parts to fill in

Act as the designer for [event name]. I will give you [key visual or illustrations], [reference designs] and [speaker list and event details]. Use my illustrations exactly as given; do not redraw them. From the references, copy this specific quality: [what I like, e.g. huge type cropped by the edge]. Readers are [audience] and they need only [date, theme, speaker selling points]; no small print. For each design choice, give one line on why. Start with [first asset, e.g. speaker cards], then stop and show me before making [the rest of the assets or the website].

Square brackets are the parts to fill in. The prompt is ours; the story is theirs.

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