28.11.09

Help Portrait

Help Portrait is a movement of photographers who are using their time, equipment and expertise to give back to those who are less fortunate this holiday season. If you are interested in getting involved on Sunday 12 December just follow the links.
This is the poster I designed for their cause.

20.11.09

16.11.09

Think about the children

OK, it's pretty obvious really, but the people who prove things for a living have proved that “brands leave their mark on children’s brains”.
…participants were quicker to recognise brand names they had encountered from birth… participants aged between 50 and 83 years were quicker to recognise early brands over newer, current brands, even if the early brands were long since defunct… The evidence suggests that mere exposure to brands in childhood will make for more fluent recognition of those brand names in adulthood that will persist through to old age.

So what does this mean? Perhaps think about baby books, logos on bibs, and merchandise broadly if you want the little humans to feel an affinity with your brand later in life. But it is a fine line. They might just outlast you.
Via BPS.

15.11.09

More Munn

If you didn't see Jason Munn’s lecture last week, you should really visit his poster exhibition on Tory Street before 21 November.

10.11.09

Jason Munn tonight

If you aren’t going to see Jason Munn tonight in Wellington you’ve really got to ask yourself why. So, I’ll see you there.

9.11.09

Eric's head

Eric Testroete wins the award for best Halloween costume ever. Brilliant. Quite brilliant. And disturbing.

5.11.09

Collective creativity of Minuit



For those of you who missed the hype, Minuit have released their new single Aotearoa. Word went out for folk to submit photos of them in NZ, and before you know it there it is, just in time for summer. See if you can spot friends and family because there are hundreds of folk in there. In this age of hyperrealityspecialeffectness it just goes to show that a good idea is a good idea, and a feelgood idea is even better.