We’re Dial Nine. We  work with arts organisations and theatres, providing marketing campaign support and design and production for print and digital.

Feel free to have a wander through our site and see if anything tickles your fancy.

Give us a ring if you reckon you’ve got a project we could help you out with.

Press & Marketing campaigns for arts productions

Developing digital and integrated strategies, social media engagament and creative advertising placement

Multi-platform design and development

Working with Adult Education specialists Margaret Cossey and Kelli Macintosh, we developed a series of training documents with an explicit aim to be open and accessible to its core users.

We wanted to break away from the more ‘text-heavy’ approaches to training documentation, as well as cater for students and trainers with lower literacy levels. Many of the core users would also be based in Indigenous communities, and so we wanted to find an engaging way to bring in visual cues and imagery to open up the various training modules. A key aspect to the layouts was to break up text modules with icons and instructional diagrams, encouraging users to ‘doodle’ and sketch throughout the manuals. We also developed a set of way-finding icons and colour palettes to help highlight key sections of the manuals and provide an easy to use reference/navigation key.

Client: TwoWayTalk / Department of Education, Employment & Workplace Relations, Australia
Project Management: This Little Duck
Role: Design & Art Direction

Taking inspiration from a pub wake, we aimed to make all the materials sympathetic to traditional imagery and language used at such gatherings (for example, ‘With our sympathy …’ drove a lot of the communications used to connect with audiences).

Client: Riff Raff Productions
Created in collaboration with: Emma Sampson
Role: Design & Art Direction

Working with Emily Dobbs, we developed Jagged Fence’s website into an easy to use and customisable site (via WordPress), allowing Jagged Fence to archive and promote past and current shows.

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As with previous seasons, the main goal was to create an unique and unifying visual brand for Darlo that highlights its various productions; yet still privileges the imagery introduced by each co-op company working with Darlo.

For this season, a refreshed colour palette and type treatment was introduced to provide a lighter and more playful tone. Individual shows were given more flexibility with distinct type treatments, allowing colours and a graphic family of assets to be used as a means to unify all shows under the Darlinghurst Theatre Company moniker of ‘artist driven theatre’.

Client: Darlinghurst Theatre Company
Role: Design & Art Direction

Using the existing print campaign material, we worked with the Philharmonia Orchestra to develop the online presence for the Lutoslawski series, Woven Words.

The microsite also provided the space for an interactive musical game, allowing users to develop their own Aleatoric compositions, using pre-recorded harmonies and rhythmic motifs recorded by members of the Philharmonia Orchestra.

Client: Philharmonia Orchestra
Role: Site Design

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Client: Tamasha Theatre Company
Role: Video Direction, Interviews and Post-Production

Client: The Space
Role: Design & Art Direction / Video Production / Interaction Design