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Dezeen Awards 2024

Creative Direction

  • Art Direction
  • Environment

The Dezeen Awards recognises the world’s best architecture, design and sustainability projects. Hingston were invited as creative directors for the 2024 event at Hackney Church, comprising set design, music programming, lighting and screen visuals.

Hackney Church is a sensitively restored Grade II-listed building in East London, renovated by architect John Pawson. With such a unique setting, it was important for our approach to work seamlessly with the existing architecture – avoiding additional structure or set builds, we employed light and atmospherics to transform the space. Taking inspiration from the show identity designed by Micha Weidmann Studio, we collaborated with We Are Seventeen to create a series of animated sequences for screen and projection.

Harnessing the interior skin as our canvas, the show design was a physical expression of the awards identity, realised through a vibrant sequence of light and projected image.

The evening was soundtracked by DJ’s Joe Goddard and Lou Hayter.

Credits

Creative Direction: Hingston Studio
Animation: We Are Seventeen
Projection Mapping and Event Production: Equip Events
Catering: Jimmy Garcia Catering
Music: Joe Goddard and Lou Hayter
Sponsored by Bentley Motors
Event Photography: Dan Emmons

Special thanks to Claire Barrett, Chater Paul Jordan, Wai Shin Li, Ben Hobson and the Dezeen Family. Nehanda Roberts, George Alexander and Dann Emmons.

Bright green screen with large white “dezeen awards” text, smaller “in partnership with” above, and Bentley logo with “2024” to the right
A large audience watches a stage with a screen reading “architecture project winners” and “dezeen awards” beneath a brightly lit, colour-washed vaulted ceiling.
A crowded awards venue with rainbow lighting, a projected striped ceiling installation and a screen reading “dezeen awards” above the audience.
Abstract geometric design with a translucent tilted polygon in pink, lilac and green against a vivid orange-to-magenta gradient background.
A vaulted interior lit in neon green, red and pink with a glowing geometric projection centred above an ornate arched window.
Abstract geometric composition with translucent orange and green polygonal forms over a blue-green gradient background.
A packed awards venue with a stage and screens beneath a brightly projected multicoloured ceiling, showing “Dezeen Awards” signage.
Dezeen Awards stage in a grand hall, with neon green and pink lighting, a central screen and repeated event branding on both sides.
Abstract pink translucent geometric shapes overlap against a blue-to-orange gradient background, creating a layered, folded composition.
A large lit event hall with a stage, screen and crowd, washed in blue and magenta lighting, with repeated “Dezeen Awards” branding on the walls.
Colourful ceiling projection in a domed interior, with magenta and blue light washes above a central organ and arched windows.
Awards stage in a hall with bright yellow beams, a large colourful screen, and repeated “Dezeen Awards 2024” branding above a crowd.
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