Voices Festival

  • Enrico Artuso

Voices Festival is a two-day conference on Higher Education culture, with a speaker series featuring sector experts from across the UK and abroad, and a day of workshops and networking opportunities. A Festival about supporting and celebrating inclusivity, empowerment and diversity. I was tasked with creating the visual identity of the Festival, basing it on the magazine Voices, but also strongly communicating a break from the project—the Festival had to shock: “you don’t know our voices”.

As the target audience for the event was comprised of two main demographics (the HE sector specialists and the students), the approach to the design was impactful and bold, yet polished and smart. That came through in the colour combination and the photographic and typographic choices. Because of the scale of the event, a large social media campaign was executed, and a number of collaterals were produced.