The National Grid – Design Distillery

The National Grid was chosen as the exclusive provider of design and creative services to the Peats Ridge Festival.

Working with the organisers and stakeholders, MRG Events, TripleJ, Drum Media and Virgin Mobile, The National Grid is proud of its involvement and output to make last years festival, the most desirable of summer festivals to date.

We developed the Logo and supporting art assets, livery, type work and customisation, along with the annual approach to festival creative execution and marketing.

The National Grid was responsible for delivering business cards, power point, sponsorship proposals, promotional brochures, postcards, pole posters, maps, lanyards, wristbands, a 64 page program and online brand creative assets.

We also developed a suite of adverts rolled out over a 4 month period leading up to the event together with a suite of static web banners for affiliate and sponsor sites.

The National Grid were asked to rebrand Sydney travel agency Budget Oz Travel.
This included creating a new identity, collateral, signage & shop interior fitout.
We also created an Ad campaign to run over the past summer.

The National Grid needed to revisit the traditional pictogram used on the toilets of the world.
We thought we’d take the honest approach with our designs.

The National Grid worked with the Australian Division of global cosmetic brand Schwartzkopf. We were asked to explore re-packaging their LIVE Colour hair product. Working with supplied photography from Germany, we developed a contemporary aesthetic that would appeal to a target demographic.
The range included 12 different packs & information inserts.

The friendly bunch at mountainwatch asked The National Grid to create an identity and art direct a website dedicated to following the Australian Winter Olympic team on the lead up to & duration of the Winter Olympics Vancouver 2010. Twentyten. Go see!

Northern Beaches Community College approached The National Grid to design a new identity.
The ident would be used across all forms of media & signage in the college.
We designed the cover for College course book. Fun!

The National Grid was asked to create visual identity & interior restaurant visuals for Bin24.
Identity, collateral, signage, screenprinted type boards & website were produced.
The bar & grill is situated in the old Arnotts biscuit factory in Strathfield, Sydney.
The space itself kept a lot of the original features of the old factory, we worked to produce graphics that were in keeping with the feel of the factory.

Perenia is a specialist firm with global reach established to support companies looking to proactively respond to the opportunities and challenges associated with the impact
of climate change.
The National Grid were asked to design the overarching look & feel of the new company.
We designed the identity & all the relevant collateral to make the brand talk.
The website, complete with comprehensive content management system and project showcase was launched to coincide with the climate change conference 2009, in Melbourne. The National Grid was responsible for all design and project management for the Perenia tradeshow presence establishing Perenia as a major player in the future of climate change business and carbon trading.

The National Grid was asked to create the campaign for National Mental Health Week in Australia.
The project involved creating many illustrations of different wellbeing pastimes and some not so super superheroes. We then created posters, postcards & a fortune teller paper game.