Icon of Winchester books festival a stack of books on cream background

Winchester Books Festival

Festival branding that jumps from the page

After a successful debut, Winchester Books Festival approached us to support their marketing efforts for their second year. We worked with them to consolidate their brand identity across digital, print and animation with the goal of increasing impact and improving brand recognition.

Clipped desktop image of Winchester books festival home page
Winchester books festival booklet floating on a green background
Abstract colourful shapes on cream background
Winchester books festival booklet and flyer stood in a blue background
Winchester books festival logo outlined emerging on a crumpled paper background
Illustration of two characters exchanging books in front of Winchester cathedral

The brand they had so far worked well in its inaugural year, so as a start point we optimised and improved the existing assets and developed a brand idea to bring the assets together in a more impactful way. The idea visualised the core of the festival – celebrating the simple joy of reading. We developed a minimal and vibrant confetti graphic system consisting of minimalist shapes and applied this across all the assets to give a playful, energetic and consistent look and feel.

Multiple Winchester books festival booklets stood open repeating rows
Close up of an open Winchester books festival leaflet and the brand logo
Woman smiling with open orange book on pale orange background
Card components with image of speaker and information text
Illustration of Winchester cathedral emerging from an open book
Laptop mockup of Winchester books festival whats on page

Crafting a new website

The key element of this project was ensuring that the branding flourished in the digital space. To do this we redesigned and developed their wordpress website. Using Elementor we produced an effervescent and engaging user experience bursting with videos and bespoke illustrations. We created a platform to explore and book tickets for both the core festival and stand alone events and also produced the festival’s print collateral, from event programmes to bookmarks carrying the new brand across all assets.

Winchester books festival advertisement poster on cream wall
Four Winchester books festival book marks with 'The Page Turner' drinks recipe
Two floating mobile mockups of Winchester books festival website
Winchester books festival advertisement on a pull up banner
Picture of Winchester books festival banner hung across Winchester high street
Snippet of a video clip on a purple background