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Festival · Porvoo

Porvoo Jazz Festival

A brand-new festival that walked onto the international jazz circuit looking like it had always been there.

Client

Porvoo Jazz Festival ry

Market

Porvoo, Finland, with an international line-up

Services

Brand identity, photography, print, website, media partnerships

Delivered

By Hash Varsani

Saxophonist Timo Lassy under blue stage light at Porvoo Jazz Festival 2014

End to end

identity, photography, print and web from one studio

International

a line-up of jazz musicians from around the world

Partners

built with radio, press and the Helsinki and Porvoo tourism boards

The story

01 · The brief

02 · What we did

03 · The result

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01 · The brief

No history, no audience, and a summer deadline.

Porvoo Jazz Festival was brand new in 2014. It had an international line-up booked and needed an identity, a voice and a home online before the first visitor arrived, in a town better known for its old wooden houses than for jazz.

02 · What we did

One studio for everything the festival needed to make its mark.

01

Festival identity

A logo and visual language built to work as hard on a street poster as on a phone screen.

02

Photography

Musicians, audiences and the town itself, captured for press, social media and next year’s promotion.

03

Print and website

Posters and festival print for Porvoo’s streets and venues, and a website for the line-up and visitor information.

04

Media partners

Assets and coordination with radio, the press and the Helsinki and Porvoo tourism boards, so the festival reached people well beyond the town.

03 · The result

The cosiest jazz festival in Finland, with a look to match.

The festival launched with one identity across print, web, photography and press, built hand in hand with the media and tourism partners who helped fill the town.

Saxophonist Howard Wiley on stage at Porvoo Jazz Festival 2015
Musicians backstage at Porvoo Jazz Festival
Saxophonist Jussi Kanaste playing at Porvoo Jazz Festival
Trumpet player performing at Porvoo Jazz Festival 2019
Singer performing at Porvoo Taidehalli during Porvoo Jazz Festival
Drummer André Sumelius on stage at Porvoo Jazz Festival

“Placeholder: a one or two sentence quote from the festival, if you can get one.”

Name · Role, Porvoo Jazz Festival

Delivered by our founder, Hash Varsani, at Atelier Helsinki.

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