[SYD19]

2019 Sydney Design Awards

spaces, objects, visual, graphic, digital & experience design, design champion, best studio & best start-up, plus over 40 specialist categories

accelerate transformation, celebrate courage, growing demand for design

Silver 

Project Overview

As Brisbane’s oldest ‘drive-up’ shopping centre, Everton Plaza needed a brand that could set it apart from the city’s sprawling supermarkets in order to engage existing and new customers.

Project Commissioner

Reds Group

Project Creator

Hoyne

Silver 

Team

Creative Director: Cam Dunnet
Strategist: Megan Hanney
Designer: Damian Wheeler

Project Brief

When Reds Group purchased Everton Plaza they required a brand to support the relaunch of the centre as a truly activated urban laneway complete with F&B and a fresh food retail offering. The village has been operating since 1969 and plays an important part in the hearts and minds of the locals and its tenants. We had to tackle the issue of keeping locals and existing tenants happy while also attracting new, youthful shoppers and new retailers to the precinct.

Project Innovation/Need

In contrast to the cookie-cutter, large shopping centres that currently dominate the market, the brand for Everton Plaza establishes it as a precinct that has returned to its roots, a characterful retail village tailored to tenants and the community, while also connecting to a new generation of audiences. A fresh, modern, must-taste, must-see, must-shop destination. A local destination no matter where you’re from. The authenticity, original character and existing tenants of the shopping village are celebrated while engaging a new breed of tenants that add to the unique personality of the centre.

Design Challenge

Our challenge was to transform this well loved but well-worn shopping village with an inspiring brand that would allow it to compete with larger offerings and sprawling supermarkets.

Effectiveness

Reds Group successfully secured renowned F&B brands: 5 Boroughs, Corbett & Claude, Comuna Cantina, Stellarossa and Neighbourhood Market among others to take up prime positions in the centre and the laneway. The laneway is now under construction.




This award celebrates creative and innovative design in the traditional or digital visual representation of ideas and messages. Consideration given to clarity of communication and the matching information style to audience.
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