The posters are part of a wider identity that I have designed for Manipulate Festival 2024 that has been adapted across a suite of marketing and promotion items including a programme guide, posters of various sizes, advertisements, digital posters, vinyls, and a ‘takeover’ of The Skinny website. There are three poster designs using three key images from performances from the festival along with a general text only poster.
The starting point for the identity was an animation of the Manipulate Festival logo created by Jamie Macdonald that was commissioned by Manipulate Arts to announce the festival. Taking inspiration from Jamie’s animation, and working with him to create new neon assets in a carefully edited palette of colours, I created a series of cohesive designs that placed Jamie’s glowing neon Manipulate Festival logo over the chosen images on a subtly glowing background along with glowing neon squiggles taken from the general Manipulate Arts identity.
