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Earthdance Festival 2011 Campaign Design

Zack Darling — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 22:30:25 +0000

One of our favorite clients here at ZDCA is the international music festival, Earthdance. Each year we work with them to envision a new design theme and create a fresh visual identity to each festival. This year Earthdance moved from deep in the woods of Mendocino County to the Solano County Fairgrounds. While the fairgrounds have plenty of trees and greenery, we chose to take the design from it’s Earthy past into a cosmic direction. Earthscapes frame a celestial sky as a mandala of lotus flowers, dragons and sacred geometry swirl around the planetary Earthdance logo. We enjoyed stretching our creative imagination and the client was thrilled with the results.

Not only did we create the promotional artwork, but we’re also creating most of the other assets to the festival such as the program guide, apparel, the new site map illustration, advertisements, banners and the skin for their new website at www.earthdancelive.com . It’s a full marketing package that we truly enjoy the chance to create.

If you’re looking for a magical weekend of music, art, community, activism, spirituality, DJs, performance art… all centered around the global Prayer for Peace, we highly recommend you check out Earthdance Northern California 2011.

Earthdance 2010 Graphics

Zack Darling — Tue, 18 May 2010 18:00:26 +0000

We have a special place in our heart for the Earthdance Festival. Each year we are given a general theme and allowed to run with it. This is our 9th year doing graphics for this event devoted to world peace, and yet it’s the first one that we incorporated a dove image. The 2010 campaign is an excellent example of the merging of “visionary” art style design with commercial promotional materials. We like to engage the viewing artist on a level beyond that of a basic message. An event like Earthdance has a very special energy about it and the voice of the event is carried through with the graphics. If you’ve never been to Earthdance, we highly recommend it.

Visit the ZDCA re-designed EarthdanceLive.com website here.

Earthdance Festival Graphics…

Zack Darling — Thu, 28 May 2009 05:55:41 +0000

Truly one of my favorite projects of the year. I just love doing these designs and I totally love this festival. If you’ve never been, I highly recommend making it part of your summer plans. Check out http://www.earthdancelive.com

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EarthDance 2009 Poster Design by Zack Darling

Join the Earthdance Community Network

Zack Darling — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 01:40:50 +0000

As the world of media rich Social Networks grows, niche networks seem to be popping up. Some music festivals have been creating their own social networks such as High Sierra Music Festival, Bonnaroo, and one of my all time favorite festivals, Earthdance. These differ from the old fashioned form of online forums such as Burning Man’s E-Playa because they allow users to create their own identities, profiles, photos, videos and become “friends” with other users of the network. They are mini Facebooks or MySpace sites for interest-specific groups.

The Earthdance Festival movement is truly the Social Network Festival of all festivals. Their system of creating globally connected synchronized festivals, concerts and parties all over the planet has taken the concept of social networking out of cyberspace and in to real life. It’s brilliant. The live networking between people at the festival takes a pause at 4pm (PST) and everyone prays for world peace at the exact same time across the globe. The same soundtrack (The Prayer For Peace) is played at every event and for one moment, the live planetary network of intention-based community becomes brilliantly clear to everyone involved. The interconnectedness between events is felt by everyone and the resulting feeling of one-ness is profound.

So, why not keep it going all year? If you’re curious about the Earthdance Festival, or have already been and want to stay connected with this amazing global movement, please check out the Earthdance Community Network and take a moment to set up your own profile.