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Julia Miceli Pitta — London, United Kingdom
“The best thing about festival identities is the possibility to create and develop a dynamic visual identity, not to do the same thing for every piece of design. Once we have the ‘soul’ of the project, we can complete it by understanding the constants and variables, achieving something smart and unique.”...
Basar Studio — Oslo, Norway
“To me the best part of working with festival identities is to come up with all the different elements, such as shapes, illustrations, colour palettes and typography. Then, to play around with compositions in different formats, and seeing it all come together nicely, this is when I have a lot of fun. And perhaps the moment I enjoy the most...
IdN™ Creative Country® — Thailand
A designers’ guide to major cities worldwide! A regular column comprising a comprehensive creative guide to the world’s leading talent hubs. An ever-expanding map of the best contacts, education programmes, exhibition spaces — and all those special “secret” spots and hangouts!...
Neopop Imaginária — João Pessoa, Brazil
“What strikes us most is the creative and artistic freedom we have in festival branding projects. Composing with different types of media, experimenting with abstract language to communicate concepts, creating environments and defining the mood of a moment. All of this is possible and accessible when building festival brands. The doors to creativity are opened and you can experiment with...
A’Design Award and Competition 2025 — Final Call for Entries — Italy
A’Design Award and Competition is one the world’s largest and most influential design award; extremely prestigious with amazing jury, press recognition and high calibre laureates. It has up to 100 categories and it is for creative of all types with awards ranging from Good Industrial Design Award, Good Architecture Design Award to Good Product Design Award, Good Communication Design Award...
Katerina Blistanova — Moscow, Russian Federation
What do you enjoy most about designing event and festival identities? “What I like most is the creative freedom. Music is a vast and very creative field for design experiments. Here you can make both laconic, strict design and bright, rebellious design.”...
IdN™ Creative Country® — Hong Kong
A designers’ guide to major cities worldwide! A regular column comprising a comprehensive creative guide to the world’s leading talent hubs. An ever-expanding map of the best contacts, education programmes, exhibition spaces — and all those special “secret” spots and hangouts!...
Ochodias Studio — Mexico City, Mexico
How is event and festival identity design different from other projects? “We like to re-imagine brands beyond convention. As artists, we are deeply moved to create culturally and artistically motivated initiatives.”...
A’Design Award and Competition 2025 — Final Call for Submission — Italy
In a world where there are millions of products and designs launch each year, A’Design Award and Competition was born out of the desire to underline the best designs and well designed products. Submissions are now open in 100+ categories, with popular choices including Interior Space and Exhibition Design; Architecture, Building and Structure Design; Furniture, Decorative Items and Homeware Design;...
Rhox — London, United Kingdom
“It’s amazing knowing that people will associate a positive event with something you’ve created! When I get the chance to design something that’s eccentric, colourful and impactful, it’s impossible to resist jumping on board. I personally love everything that’s bold, colourful, and energetic — and these are key elements in most festival visual identities.”...
Xinyun Huang — Shenzhen, China
What do you enjoy most about designing event and festival identities? “Passion. Designing for a festival is something unknown and passionate, it’s an exciting celebration, you wonder who will be attending the festival, what they experience in the atmosphere you’ve created, and you may even want to be there in person.”...