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A Really Special Community Activation – Heart of Surry Hills Festival

January 6, 2023

Author

marco Fasano

Introduction

Leigh Harris, president of the Surry Hills Business Partnership, and Margot Natoli, from Event Project, contacted Pulse in July 2022 to introduce an activation project in the Surry Hills neighborhood, where our headquarters are located. To unite all these various local brands and make them work together was a pretty difficult task for the Heart of Surry Hills Festival festival organisation. With a spectacular conclusion at Shannon Reserve party, the activity was intended to last the entire month of November. The City of Sydney Council came to an agreement to sponsor the event, which led to Clover Moore attending the opening celebration on October 26 at Bricks Distillery.

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The challenge

Pulse’s task was to create a website that would encourage interaction while describing to visitors the festival’s concept and flow, as well as the deals and information accessible for its activities calendar, places, venues, and locations.

The Heart of Surry Hills festival was a brand-new concept, which also meant there were no branding assets, no style to follow, a new team of people and organisations working together, and a plethora of business coordination. It was indeed true even though Harris and Natoli had extensive prior experience putting these activations and events together, we had to create from scratch and make sure that everything displayed was accurate and adhered to all branding standards.

With a small budget, we had to create a website that would enable visitors to search for information using a variety of parameters, such as dates and venue types (restaurants, pubs, parks and show venues). While ad campaigns were running, we also had to set up the site to be crawled and rated by Google. In reality, this was a major occasion.

With a small budget, we had to create a website that would enable visitors to search for information using a variety of parameters, such as dates and venue types (restaurants, pubs, parks and show venues). While ad campaigns were running, we also had to set up the site to be crawled and rated by Google. In reality, this was a major occasion.

The solution

We decided to go ahead with a website concept that included various types of filters. We coordinated the user experience with the flow of this type of festival. Events would be grouped in various ways and categories in order to provide information to users in a friendly but accurate manner.

To allow users to follow the Heart of Surry Hills flow, the design needed to include simple accessibility and engaging functionalities. It also had to be in sync with the branding development in order for them to complement each other in style and mood.

The result 

The story is told in the Festival videos itself. Many journeyed to Surry Hills in November to take advantage of the variety of plays, supper, cocktail hours, and parties available in the Heart of Surry Hills.

Some images of the website :

 

Heart of Surry Hills Precinct Activation Media Launch at BRIX Distillers, Surry Hills – Wednesday 26th October 2022
Photographer: Belinda Rolland © 2022

Results

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