LightNight was a yearly one-night arts and culture festival held in the city of Liverpool, featuring events including light projections, workshops, live music and theatre. I worked with the events producers, Open Culture, for several years, refreshing LightNight’s identity and campaign annually to visualise each theme.
For the year of 2018, the theme was ‘Transformation’. Taking inspiration from Liverpool’s navy history, l discovered that the city was one of the first to adopt dazzle painting on warships. This illusion forming paint was used during WW1 to make warships unrecognisable to enemies. A graphic was created that used contrasting stripes and colours to create an illusion, just like dazzle paint. 2018 was also the 100th anniversary since the end of the Great War.
2019 saw the year of the ‘Ritual’. Inspiration came from how a ritual can be a flow of actions, repeated using specific objects, words, shapes or movements. It could be movement, it could be resonance, it could be ripples. Seeing ritual as a rhythm or ripple, I took the lines to form organic but repetitive patterns.
2020 was set to be the year of ‘Home, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the live event was postponed to 2021. Home is the central and focal point of our lives from which everything radiates out, an epicentre. A circle device was used accompanied by descriptive witty copy. All three identities were applied to many assets, including posters, web banners, a guide, large format banners, advertisements, t-shirts, badges and buses.
