EXHIBITION DESIGN · PRINT · CULTURAL STORYTELLING
Channel Nine Perth: From 1965 to Now
Bringing five decades of Western Australian broadcasting history to life for the Museum of Perth.
CLIENT
Channel Nine
LOCATION & YEAR
Museum of Perth, Perth, Western Australia | 2016
DELIVERABLES
Exhibition graphics, print materials
PARTNER
Museum of Perth
Bringing 50 years of broadcasting to life
To celebrate 50 years of broadcasting, Channel Nine Perth opened its archives for 1965 to Now, an exhibition tracing the station’s history from its first broadcast on 12 June 1965.
Created in partnership with the Museum of Perth,
the exhibition brought together photographs, footage, original broadcast equipment and archival material.
01 CHALLENGE & APPROACH
The Challenge
The Museum of Perth required marketing materials for the exhibition and a clear way to present a large volume of historical information. The aim was to showcase Nine Perth’s evolution over five decades. This meant filtering through hundreds of images and categorising them to create a visual timeline that visitors could read both up close and from a distance.
Creating visually cohesive work from five decades of material
The Approach
With visual hierarchy in mind, I arranged historical insights, fun facts and archival imagery across large display boards to draw visitors into Channel Nine Perth’s rich and distinctive history.
I also developed a visual identity for the exhibition in line with Channel Nine’s brand guidelines. I applied this identity across the exhibition booklet, display boards, promotional posters and wayfinding signage.
Hierarchy, rhythm and nostalgia
1965
50 YEARS OF BROADCASTING
NOW
02 EXHIBITION GRAPHICS
History in the making
Archival photography, historical information and iconic Channel Nine imagery formed the building blocks for telling the station’s story within the museum. I framed the content in boxes that echoed the shape of television screens and used straight lines to create a newspaper-inspired aesthetic.
Exhibition graphics installed at the Museum of Perth
Brand Evolution
The evolution of Channel Nine Perth’s visual identity
Visual Storytelling through controlled chaos
News and familiar Perth faces
Broadcast-inspired arrows connect each story to its corresponding archival image, guiding visitors through the exhibition and creating a clear reading rhythm.
Varying image sizes created a dynamic rhythm, while recurring typography, colour and directional elements kept the exhibition cohesive.
03 EXHIBITION PUBLICATION
Alongside the display boards, I designed a range of printed materials for the exhibition, including a souvenir booklet, directional signage and promotional flyers. I adjusted the typography, image scale and layout of each piece to suit its format.
The souvenir booklet featured archival images and stories spanning five decades of Channel Nine Perth’s history.
Printing Materials
Souvenir booklet ・ Cover design
Archival material and broadcast history
04 PROMOTION AND WAYFINDING
From invitation to arrival
Invitations, exhibition posters, flyers and directional signage used a consistent visual language while adapting to different spaces and communication needs.
Exhibition poster with dates, opening hours and
location details
Directional signage guiding visitors to the Museum of Perth
Invitation to the exhibition opening
05 MY ROLE
My role was to ask questions and take an overarching view of Channel Nine as both a business and a community. What made it special? What had or hadn’t aged well? Which stories deserved to be unearthed, and which showed how far we had come?
Running a television station involves many different people and areas of work, which gave me a broad range of material to draw from. Bringing those stories to life visually meant working with archival images that were often inconsistent in quality or too low-resolution to reproduce at scale.
Beyond the technical challenges, the work was about capturing the character of Channel Nine Perth and the role it played in the city’s history.
Channel Nine, yesterday, today and tomorrow.
Who, what when where why.
Guests enjoying opening Night