Opera Australia RFP - Creative Services
Tender Overview
About this tender
Opera Australia (OA) is the country's largest arts not-for-profit, creating and presenting an annual calendar of large-scale opera, musicals and concerts across Sydney and Melbourne. OA is seeking a creative agency to partner with us on art direction, graphic design and brand initiatives. The appointed agency will work closely with our Marketing & Communications team to develop creative for new opera productions and evolve the expression of the OA brand. Scope: The scope includes creative direction for production campaigns (image concepts, art direction of photoshoots, video concepts, graphic design), annual subscription brochure design and brand campaigns. The appointed agency will work with OA on a range of campaign assets, including for paid digital channels, OOH, print and video. Primary contact: We are inviting expressions of interest to respond to our full RFP brief. To receive the full brief, please send an expression of interest of no more than two pages, outlining your team’s relevant experience and interest in working with OA to: Benjamin.Neutze@opera.org.au Marketing Manager, Brand, Creative & Content Opera Australia Only longlisted candidates will receive the full brief and be invited to pitch.
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