Front Row program design, orientation O06, Atrium, portrait. The shape of the day in four stacked rows, morning, midday, afternoon and evening, each with its session code, its event and its room, from the opening keynote with Lena Ortiz to the closing talk with Tomas Reyes.
Program, for the day's four parts at an info point.

Digital signage

Front Row: Free Portrait Conference Signage Template

Nine conference designs made for tall screens, for a totem at registration, the side of a stage or a stand in the exhibit hall.

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The HTML version plays in FloSync as it is. Files from design and presentation apps must be exported as images or video before FloSync can play them.

Free to use under the FloSync Template License.

Also available in landscape.

About the Front Row Portrait Template

The portrait set does the same nine jobs as the landscape set, each design laid out again for a tall screen. The rail moves with it: the orientation and exchange groups carry it across the top, and the keynote group along the foot of the screen.

The speaker's headshot takes the whole upper half of the speaker design, and the arrival design's three steps stack in a column. The portrait program leaves out the note on doors and access, so its three or four parts of the day fill the height. The codes differ from the landscape set's as well: the tall speaker design is K02 where the wide one is K05, so both sets can hang at one event.

Put the Front Row Portrait Designs on Your Screens with FloSync

Unzip the HTML download somewhere permanent. The orientation, keynote and exchange folders hold one group each.

Portrait and landscape screens can run from the same computer. In Independent mode each screen box holds its own page whichever way the screen is mounted, so a landscape session design from the other set can sit between two tall keynote designs. Right-click a screen box and choose Load HTML File... to give it a page.

FloSync's composer with the schedule panel open in Interval mode, three scenes named Orientation, Keynote and Exchange with Keynote selected, and Keynote's three Front Row designs on a portrait, a landscape and a portrait screen
Two portrait keynote designs either side of a landscape session design.

The keynote designs should stay up until the talk ends. In the schedule panel's Interval mode, give the keynote a scene of its own and set its duration to Cue: it holds until you press an arrow key or a number key, while the scenes with a duration move on by themselves. Choose Go Live (Beginning) to start from the first scene. Cue scenes has the details.

Make the Portrait Designs Your Event's Own

Every name in the designs is invented, and every word is plain text in the page, the code and room on the rail included. Open a design in a text editor and type over it. A title longer than the one shown wraps onto more lines on a tall screen, so look at each edited design once on the real screen.

The headshot, the lamp and the paper hinges are the same square photographs the landscape set uses, and each design crops its own to fit, so one replacement photograph serves both orientations. They are in the images folder beside each group's pages. The logo is current-lockup.svg, and the colors are set at the top of each page.

The PowerPoint and Illustrator files hold the nine designs as tall slides and artboards. Install Noto Sans and Noto Serif from the fonts folder first, then save each one as an image or a video and load that file on its screen in FloSync.

Every Design in the Set

The nine designs, the orientation group first, then the keynote and the exchange.

Front Row program design, orientation O06, Atrium, portrait. The shape of the day in four stacked rows, morning, midday, afternoon and evening, each with its session code, its event and its room, from the opening keynote with Lena Ortiz to the closing talk with Tomas Reyes.
Program, for the day's four parts at an info point.
Front Row theme design, orientation O01, Atrium, portrait. The words Design for the spaces between systems are stacked over four lines in large white type under the cyan rail, with the line about three days of talks, open studios and working prototypes at the foot.
Theme, for a tall screen at the entrance.
Front Row arrival design, orientation O03, Atrium, portrait. Collect your badge at the Atrium desk above three numbered steps in a column, from showing the code in your confirmation email to leaving coats and bags at the desk by the stairs, with the note on the step-free entrance and the quiet room beside the desk at the foot.
Arrival guide, for the line at the registration desk.
Front Row session design, keynote K07, Main Hall, portrait. The Interface Is the Room over two lines, then Lena Ortiz of Studio Harlan and a short abstract about screens, sound and light turning a building into one interface, above the red rail.
Session, for the door of the room where the talk runs.
Front Row speaker design, keynote K02, Main Hall, portrait. A headshot of Lena Ortiz against a violet-lit curtain fills the upper half, with her name, her role as Design Director at Studio Harlan and her talk, The Interface Is the Room, on a dark panel below and the red rail along the foot.
Speaker, for a screen beside the stage.
Front Row audience question design, keynote K03, Main Hall, portrait. What should an interface make visible? in large white type, asked by Lena Ortiz, with how to answer on a card at your seat, above the red rail.
Audience question, for the aisles while a talk runs.
Front Row project index design, exchange X06, Exchange Hall, portrait. Across the Exchange Hall in four stacked sections with their tables, materials at tables 01 to 08, tools at 09 to 14, prototypes at 15 to 22 and workshops at the long table.
Project index, for the entrance to the exhibit hall.
Front Row featured project design, exchange X01, Exchange Hall, portrait. Under the lime rail, a photograph of a desk lamp of plywood, white steel and riveted aluminum on a worktable, then Soft Circuit, a lamp assembled without adhesives, with its studio, materials and joints.
Featured project, for a stand in the exhibit hall.
Front Row workshop design, exchange X03, Exchange Hall, portrait. Build a paper hinge and three numbered steps at the top, then a tall photograph of folded card hinges and tools on a white table beside the workshop leader, Kofi Mensah of Studio Harlan.
Workshop, for the long table where it takes place.

Frequently asked questions

Can I use the Front Row portrait designs at my event?

Yes, whether the event is free or ticketed, and whether you run one conference or produce them for others. Edit the designs, show them and leave the screens free of any credit. If the files leave your hands, or become the base of a new template, the credit line and the license must go with them, and the files may never be sold as they are.

Do the portrait designs need FloSync?

No. A tall screen with a browser can show any design full screen, and the portrait deck and Illustrator file work without FloSync too. FloSync, which is free, is what holds a keynote design on screen until you advance it and runs portrait and landscape screens from one computer.

How many sessions fit on the program?

The program is laid out for three or four parts of the day, each with a code, a line and a room. For a longer day, use two copies of the program, one for the morning and one for the afternoon.

Can I use the portrait designs beside landscape ones?

Yes. The two sets share their colors, type and rails, and every design has a code of its own, so no two designs at one event share a number. Each orientation is its own download, on its own page.

Will the portrait designs work on a tall 4K screen beside the stage?

Yes. The portrait PowerPoint and Illustrator files are 2160 by 3840, the HTML scales to any tall screen, and Canva lets you set the size on export. The speaker's headshot is the photograph a 4K screen shows largest, so replace it with a high-resolution portrait first.

What Is FloSync?

FloSync is free software for Mac and Windows that runs images, video, and web pages across one screen or many. Each screen can carry its own content, and a schedule can change them all together at the times you set, so a design like this one keeps itself current while you get on with your day. It is free to download, with no account and no monthly fee.

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Front Row Landscape Event Signage

The same nine designs, laid out for wide screens.