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Campaign: It’s Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas In Sydney

Claire Robinson
Published on: 28th November 2014 at 9:10 AM
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The City of Sydney local government area has begun rolling out this year’s Christmas branding, in a six-week campaign that will cover the CBD and surrounds in festive spirit across the spectrum of outdoor, digital and print media.

Created by local brand and design studio, HOLT, the campaign creative centres on the clean-lines of a triangular, tree shaped identity, as the contemporary distillation of a recognisable Christmas motif. The ‘tree’ itself is further made up of hundreds of smaller, prismatic triangles in a myriad of bold, rich, jewel-like colours. As though in flux from a gust of wind, small ‘leaves’ of colour are blown from the tree shape, into its surrounds.

“The 2014 Christmas campaign will be highly visible throughout inner-Sydney via city flags,” said Christopher Holt, creative director at HOLT. “This got us thinking about how to utilise the nature of the medium to augment the creative and give it life. The notion of wind was the basis of this idea.

“From here, the visual brand we developed for Christmas in Sydney this year was inspired by the famous woodcut Travellers Caught in a Sudden breeze at Ejiri by 19th Century Japanese print-maker and artist Hokusai, and Jeff Wall’s contemporary photographic interpretation of this work, A Sudden Gust of Wind. In this case, the wind seems to physically blow the spirit of Christmas off the tree and out across the city.”

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The use of a palette of more the 350 individual colours was also developed with clear intent and careful thought as to how the creative could positively influence the emotional experience of being in the urban landscape of the City of Sydney during the Christmas period. Holt said the use of colour aims to create a joyful sense of celebration and a festive mood amongst city-goers.

The choice of typography was also important to the creative, explained Holt, whose studio opted to realise the ‘Happy Christmas’ messaging in Outsiders, a contemporary slab serif font designed by Henrik Kubel at A2 Type foundry in London. “It has a lightness that softens the hard edges of the tree mark, adding a sense of character and giving the identity and campaign a friendly, inclusive voice.”

The campaign, which represents the commercial activations and community celebrations of the 2014 Christmas period in Sydney, will cover the city as it rolls out across metrolights and citylights, city flags, banners, large-scale outdoor billboards, posters, print and online advertising, website, promotional collateral, experiential executions, digital applications and retail activations.

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Steve Howlett, head of creative at the City of Sydney, whose in-house team will roll-out the creative, says the annual Christmas brand and campaign is integral to the City’s standing as Australia’s only global city.

“The great cities of the world have Christmas experiences that makes them even more joyous destinations at that time of the year. Our annual Christmas campaigns aim to put Sydney on the global ‘festive season map’, creating strong commercial returns for business, making it a special time of year for the people who live and work in this city and drawing in visitors from around the world.”

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By Claire Robinson
Claire has worked across PR, communications, marketing, media and design for almost 20 years and offers the following specialities: * PR and communications, specialising in: consumer and lifestyle brand/product PR; corporate communication; trade publicity for the advertising, media, design, marketing and creative services industries; internal stakeholder communications * Client services and business marketing for the advertising, media, marketing and design industries * Branding and design consultancy

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