Brand Identity · Print · Poster · OOH · Digital

Symphonic
Whispers

Year 2025
Role Brand Designer, Art Director
Context University Brief
Tools Illustrator · Photoshop · InDesign

Transforming music into a cinematic visual experience.

Symphonic Whispers was a poster design project created for a fictional classical music festival. The brief asked us to design a visual identity and promotional campaign for a music event of our choice. I chose classical music because, unlike most contemporary genres, it communicates emotion without relying on lyrics — evoking tension, intimacy, solitude, and drama purely through sound, in a way that feels both universal and deeply cinematic.

The concept was inspired by the emotional intensity of orchestral music and film scores. I wanted the visuals to feel theatrical and atmospheric — more like a scene from a film than a traditional festival advertisement. Dark negative space and rich red tones create mystery and depth. Red became the dominant colour throughout because it holds multiple emotional registers at once: passion, drama, intimacy, movement — all emotions that live inside classical music.

Symphonic Whispers — bus shelter poster mockup, London
Symphonic Whispers — London bus wrap

OOH application — London bus wrap

Theatre, cinema, and the language of orchestral music.

The figure holding the lantern acts as a symbolic guide — a presence moving through atmosphere rather than toward a destination, which is exactly how orchestral music works. The flowing dress introduces motion that mirrors the rhythm of the music: continuous, without a fixed point of resolution.

Typography was set in a refined serif for the event title, paired with a delicate italic script for supporting text — the contrast between structure and fluidity mirrors the tension between a composed score and its live performance. The system was extended across bus wraps, shelter posters, and vinyl mockups: each format tested whether the atmosphere held at scale, in motion, and at a distance.

Red holds multiple emotional registers at once — passion, drama, intimacy, movement. All the emotions that live inside classical music.
Symphonic Whispers — identity application Symphonic Whispers — brand in context

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