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Western Sydney Wanderers FC

2019/20 Outdoor Advertising Campaign

Breaking the rules of consistency to build a season-long visual identity that demanded attention.

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At Western Sydney Wanderers FC, the brief was to reimagine what consistency could look like for a football club’s season-long outdoor campaign.

Rather than relying on one fixed visual style, the idea was to build a flexible identity system where each match told a different story, cinematic, expressive and visually distinct, yet still unmistakably Wanderers.

The result was a bold outdoor campaign that evolved week by week while holding together as one cohesive season.

Project Details

  • Client

    Western Sydney Wanderers FC

  • Location

    Western Sydney, NSW

  • Industry

    Sport / Football

  • Scope

    Sports branding, Outdoor advertising, posters

  • Delivered

    2019/20 A-League season

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The Challenge

Keeping fan attention high across a full season

The Wanderers needed a campaign that would reignite fan excitement for their return to Wanderland and keep attention high across the entire 2019/20 A-League season.

Each home match required its own creative energy, designed to stand out across Sydney’s streets and feel relevant to the moment.

The challenge was connecting these individual match campaigns under one recognisable visual language, without flattening creativity or falling into repetition.

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The Solution

Consistency through typography, tone and colour discipline

Nat designed a season-long series of outdoor advertising campaigns where typography, tone and colour discipline became the connective tissue.

Each round drew inspiration from a different creative world, while maintaining a shared typographic rhythm and restrained colour palette to create cohesion without conformity.

Key rounds included:

  • Round 1, Return to Wanderland

    Launch posters celebrating the club’s homecoming and rallying fans for the opening fixture.

  • Round 3, Rivals Are Forever

    Sydney Derby posters inspired by The Shining, creating a bold, unsettling visual tone for the rivalry.

  • Round 7, Comic book and pulp styling

    High-energy player posters using bold callouts and graphic illustration techniques.

  • Round 13, Vintage newspaper headlines

    A typographic, nostalgic approach to ring in the new year.

  • Round 20, Bauhaus and Japanese typography influences

    Structured, minimal compositions designed to reset the season’s visual rhythm.

  • Round 24, Rivals Are Forever, Derby Two

    A supporter-led execution using Western Sydney postcodes and collage design.

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The Result

A campaign as unpredictable and alive as the season itself

The campaign gave the club a flexible, expressive design system that felt as unpredictable and alive as the season itself.

It broke away from standard football advertising conventions and set a new creative benchmark for how the Wanderers could evolve visually across future seasons, without losing identity or recognition.

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Rivals Are Forever.

A season campaign idea that turned match-by-match creative into a bold, recognisable visual system for Western Sydney.

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