City of Sydney - New Year’s Eve 2025

For Sydney New Year’s Eve 2025 VANDAL and the City of Sydney lit up the Sydney Harbour Bridge with a glowing, animated celebration of native, Australian flora.

Commissioned by the City of Sydney, VANDAL delivered a large-scale projection developed using real DNA sequences from Australian native plants. Created in collaboration with the Botanic Gardens of Sydney. Genetic datasets were translated into visual parameters within VANDAL’s generative animation workflows, shaping how each form grew, moved and transformed. The visuals behaved much like a living organism, organic and rhythmic. 

As midnight approached, the projections built in scale and colour before expanding across the full bridge, synchronised with music, fireworks and lighting.

VANDAL’s scope included creative direction, concept development, generative animation design and the delivery of projection content mapped specifically to the form and scale of the Sydney Harbour Bridge. Collaboration with stakeholders ensured seamless integration of visuals, fireworks, music and broadcast.  

Experienced by millions both in person and via global broadcast, the projections became a defining visual centrepiece of Sydney’s New Year’s Eve celebration.