Victory Live

The Client

The National Museum of the Royal Navy, established in 2008, encompasses multiple locations from Portsmouth Historic Dockyard to NMRN Hartlepool. Their mission is to inspire enjoyment and engagement with the continuing history and modern role of the Royal Navy and the Royal Navy’s impact on shaping both our nation and the modern world.

The Opportunity

The team at The Graphic Design house created dynamic visuals, compelling straplines and a new visual identity for Portsmouth Historic Dockyard, which has led onto working with other locations within NMRN. We were approached by Victory Live to create 4 illustrations and a trail map to engage the younger audience on learning about the fungi that lives on HMS Victory, as part of their big repair campaign.

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Our Approach

• Firstly, we created a moodboard which showcased a design style the characters could all follow, then designed one character with and without the fungi so each character had two alter egos.
• We started with initial sketches of the characters before drawing them in illustrator, using the Victory Live brand colours where possible but extending out to make the fungi appear as realistic in colour as possible
• The style of the characters all had to fit together in a suite of illustrations but with the hero/villain aspect bought to life through capes and eye masks.

Results

We created an A4 double sided trail with information and questions for the target audience to answer. The characters featured throughout the ship, printed large and where children could find them and answer the questions. The result was an exciting trail to learn about the good and bad fungi on board HMS Victory.