Festival of Transitional Architecture.
Festival of Transitional Architecture
Christchurch
2013
Finalist, Designers Institute of New Zealand Best Awards
The Festival of Transitional Architecture is a free, annual public event that engages with Christchurch by exploring urban regeneration through large-scale collaborative projects and urban interventions. For 2013 its visual language took the form of a Risographed set of posters and an accompanying publication.
The concept was a simple, two-colour, interchangeable set of posters, tiled to make larger compositions, in which a fixed circle and square in the top and bottom left-hand corners act as a point A and a point B, so that whatever appears between them reads as a transitional space.
A recurring star pattern, drawn from a clip-art file, marks the festival’s day and night programmes; beyond these elements the series relies on Risograph red and black and on typographic arrangement to hold a consistent visual language together across a deliberately irregular use of imagery.
