Aggelos KourtidisGraphic and Web Design / Greece
Rebranding Proposal · 2020

Release Athens Festival 2020

A student exercise at Vakalo College, in collaboration with Release Athens, to rebrand the festival for 2020. I prepared two different new visual identity proposals. The first is minimal and graphic, with the symbols of a media player in red on orange. The second is more playful, with a hand-drawn rounded logo and bold colours. Both were tested across the whole festival: tickets, posters, a website, social media, T-shirts, crew badges, flags, signs, food packaging and a pizza box.

It is a student exercise, not a commission, but it shows how I build an identity for a festival, from the mark to the applications. Today I work from Corinth for organisations and businesses across Greece. If you want something similar, get in touch.

Images (56)

First proposal

The symbols of a media player, play, pause, stop and record, become red shapes that blur as if in motion, on a bright orange ground with widely spaced monospace type.

Billboard with the Release Athens Festival 2020 logo and a blurred red circle
Release Athens Festival 2020 flag with a red play triangle and widely spaced typePoster series with rewind, skip, stop, play, pause and record symbols
Black and white Release Athens tickets with the line-up on the stub
Festival ticket variation with a black stubBlack Release Athens Festival 2020 line-up poster with a blurred red triangle
Iggy Pop and Chemical Brothers concert posters for Plateia Nerou
Clutch and Manowar concert posters with pause and record symbolsFirst proposal website on desktop, laptop, tablet and phone
White Chemical Brothers T-shirt with a blurred red square
White Iggy Pop T-shirt with a red double triangleWhite Alice in Chains T-shirt with red rewind triangles
White Anthrax T-shirt with a red play triangle
Grey zip hoodie fading into blurred redBlack and white baseball caps with a red play triangle
Black and white festival crew badges on lanyards
White and black silicone wristbands with play symbolsRelease Athens tent with the logo and a blurred red circle
Restaurant lightbox sign with a pictogram built from play symbols
Restroom lightbox sign with figures made of trianglesCocktails lightbox sign with glasses drawn from geometric shapes
Clothing lightbox sign with a T-shirt and a play triangle
Festival Food and Bar A-frame signRelease Mosquito Killer spray with red half circles
Festival refill bottle with red arrows on a black label
White lighter with the word Release set vertically in redAfter Music vinyl sleeve with a blurred red circle
Tote bags with a blurred red circle and triangleRelax! Cheese Please pizza box with a red triangle

Second proposal

A hand-drawn logo in rounded letters, where the A becomes a play button, in purple, orange, yellow and teal, with loose shapes that look like drops.

Black flag with the rounded logo of the second proposal
Orange flag with a yellow Release Athens Festival logoSecond proposal line-up poster in orange and white on an easel
Three concert posters for Cypress Hill, Iggy Pop and Alice in Chains
Purple Anthrax concert poster with the band photoOrange Cypress Hill concert poster
Second proposal website on desktop, laptop, tablet and phone
Release Athens Facebook page with the new identitySocial media posts for the Anthrax concert
Teal and yellow tickets with the second proposal logo
Orange Team Members badge on a yellow lanyardLanyards with the logo in orange and yellow
Yellow and green T-shirt with a large logo
Grey T-shirt with a white logo and play symbolBlack T-shirt with a white logo and play symbol
Orange sweatshirt with the festival logo
Green baseball cap with an embroidered logoWhite cap printed all over with the logo
Green tote bag with the logo
Yellow zip pouch with the Release Athens Festival logoWater bottles with orange, teal and purple labels
Festival food packaging, cups and burger boxes
Teal pizza box with the logoDrinks lightbox sign in rounded letters
Orange Restroom lightbox sign
Purple Snacks lightbox signYellow Merchbar lightbox sign

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