Rising

RISING holds a special place in Exhibitionist's story—they were our founding client in 2020, trusting us to build their digital platform for Melbourne's new winter arts festival. Six years later, we're still evolving their digital presence together.

Platform Evolution

2021 Launch: Delayed from 2020 due to lockdowns, we partnered with Maud to deliver RISING's inaugural site. Full-screen imagery, swim-lane scheduling, interactive precinct mapping, and our first Tessitura integration with custom checkout flows. This marked the debut of Hypertickets, our digital ticketing solution.

2022 Design Ownership: We took design in-house with Melanie Huang, creating media-rich program listings, refined navigation, and a new ticketing UI to handle complex multi-venue programming.

2023 Collaborative Refinement: Working under RISING's design direction, we incorporated audience feedback to enhance UX and deployed backend optimisations for improved site performance.

2024-25 Infrastructure Overhaul: Two-phase architectural rebuild to future-proof the platform and recalibrate backend systems for RISING's expanding ambitions.

2026 System Enhancement: Currently developing a refreshed design system with Mel Huang, functional improvements across the platform, and updated Tessitura confirmation emails.

Six Years of Digital Infrastructure

• Full-scale festival platform rebuilt annually to match curatorial vision
• Custom Tessitura integration powering ticketing, schedules, and checkout flows
• Hypertickets digital ticketing system for contactless entry
• Exhibition microsites including Shadow Spirit and Swingers
• Audio and digital guides for installations like A Miracle Constantly Repeated
• Continuous stack modernisation ensuring cutting-edge performance
• Interactive mapping, event favouriting, live-streaming capabilities
• Ongoing architecture evolution from MVP to enterprise-grade platform

It's been a journey and we both still love each other.