DESIGN BRIEF //
To develop a festival experience based in rural NSW between Bourke, Brewarrina and Walgett to engage communities and travellers in a culturally and politically sensitive space that is the Murray Darling River. Considering spatial configuration, user dynamics and the intrinsic landscape itself.
PROMOTIONAL POSTER DESIGN FOR THE RIVER TEA FESTIVAL
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Detail Rendered Section // Featured on Panel 2
Design Proposal
Proposed design solution // Collages created with sources images and Photoshop // Line drawings created with Rhino 3D and post-produced in Illustrator
Precedent Studies // Informing the function and interaction of festival and community events
FINAL PRESENTATION PANELS
1 // PROGRAM
The Murray darling foragers tea festival is designed to facilitate the sense of old-world excitement and re-discovery through an immersive experience of rural NSW through the medium of native Australian tea gathered from the flora of the area. This festival brings together the two perspectives and experiences of the murray darling. The early days of boating and trade as well as the indigenous to showcase traditional forager techniques and to ignite passion for indigenous flavours and practises.
The project aims to explore potential tea production and the connections that can be fostered between the Bourke, Brewarrina and Walgett areas. Attendees require an open mind to cultural immersion through the accessible and seasoned medium of tea, participants are lead by indigenous elders and tea specialists in tastings and demonstrations to create personalised tea flavours.
Taking place on the restored interior space of the jandra paddle steamer on the Murray river and its surrounding land, flora foraged from the area is collected and processed into a final tea product - into the categories of medicinal, herbal and black teas. Along with fruits, objects such as baskets and tea additives.
2 // Experience of Festival Program
