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2high Festival

Project Overview

2High Festival Is Australia’S One-Of-A-Kind Multi-Arts Festival dedicated to showcasing the next wave of arts experiences and arts practitioners. Now in its momentous 16th year, ZERO HOUR was invited to partner by Backbone Youth Arts to develop & workshop the visioning process with this year’s coordinators. Out of this vision we were to guide the design brief & create an end-to-end campaign, including this year’s visual identity & website. We surfaced from the visioning process with the tagline ‘Unleash the Beast!’

Client

Backbone Youth Arts

Disciplines

All Disciplines

Link

2highfestival.com

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Our objective was to deliver a campaign that matched the ambition of the coordinators and Backbone’s vision — to capture the imagination of young people as they engage with and create the world around them and consequently the world of the future. We strived to set a new benchmark to communicate the significance of this project and its existence.

 

Above: G. Squid — our beast c/o Mother Nature.

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The name ‘two high’, was taken from a circus move, whereby one performer stands on another’s shoulders. It is also a metaphor for the enhanced ability of foresight that someone gains from a raised vantage point.

Left: 2high ‘Touchers’ in disguise.

Right: 2high Festival 2009 ‘Unleash the Beast’ poster. Hand-drawn, cut-out & vector element were also used in a stop/start animation when the poster was launched online.

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Below: Our interpretation of ‘the beast’ was infinite. This informed our approach to the showcase website drawing upon nostalgia, phobias, myth, weird science, and absurd facts for inspiration. We invited others to reference their own ‘beasts’ and to submit them for addition to the image library.

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The objective of the website was to throw even light upon all 60 + artists involved in this years program. Retrieving random content stimulates tangent exploration making each page and user experience unique.

Left & Above: Artists pages showing all, categories & artist detail with image & Vimeo integration.

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Far Left: 2high Blog. Giving 2high managers the ability to keep festival information up-to-date.

Left: Coordinators page showcasing the people behind the festival.

Left Bottom: Mega Mix Blog. Allowing 2 participants to keep a journal of progress of their collaborative experience.

Right Bottom: Subscribe page confirmation.

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