Night Harbour Festival
Three nights on the water, with an identity built to glow.
Client
Music festival, harbour front
What we made
Identity, motion system, posters, stage screens
Timeline
12 weeks
Year
In progress
The brief
Night Harbour takes over the container port for three nights in late summer. The festival needed an identity that works on a poster at noon and on a forty-metre screen at midnight.
The approach
We’re building the identity from light. The letters are drawn as a grid of dots, like the bulbs on the cranes, so every word can switch on, flicker and travel across a screen.
In print, the same dots become a warm, glowing type on deep harbour blue. On the stage screens, they run in time with the music.
What changed
In progress. The first posters go up in spring, and the stage screens are being tested on the cranes now.
Made by
Joaquín Ferrer
Design director
Kwabena Owusu
Motion lead
Tomasz Wierzbicki
Designer, websites
Zuri Abara
Animator
Our part
Identity, type design, motion design, stage visuals
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