Beached gets selected

The short film Beached, by Kiwi writer/director Alan Morrison has been selected for the New Zealand International Film Festival, so keep an eye out for it in your neck of the woods.
Poster by yours truly.

Monterey

Snippet of my recent illustration being put up in über cool new bar in Newtown.

Work in progress

Sneak peak

More details soon.

RedRam

Having kept my mouth shut for ages about this 'secret project' I was working on at Icebreaker I can now reveal what it was all about. RedRam. Not as premium as Icebreaker but if you love merino this is where you can start…

Life imitating thought

I’ve been chatting to my friends about a theory of ideas. The essence is that ideas shouldn’t be horded, but rather they should be set free so that more (and better) ideas fill the gaps that the others were taking up. For the last year or two I’ve been noting the ideas for projects/designs/other random thoughts in my iPod Touch, in the always handy Notes app. Handy until yesterday it crapped itself and deleted everything. So there we go, 50+ ideas that were waiting to be realised (on that infamous rainy day) vanished in a flash. I am pretty disappointed in myself for not acting sooner to
(a) back them up
(b) complete them
but excited to see if my idea is actually true and the ideas waiting in the wings come into fruition in the new year.

Come on in.

It’s always interesting doing some tiding up. Sometimes you’ll find a thing you had totally forgotten about. Like this drawing. Completely skipped my mind. Never finished, but now not forgotten.

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.

Internetland is a wonderful place

Once upon a time, The Collective (a group of design friends in New Zealand) painted pictures and filmed the process, selling the timelapse film with the painting thereby letting the purchaser own the entire process, not just the final output. Somehow, someone in Internetland found the original video and showed it in Manchester as part of Oxfam’s Climate Change even (images above). Like they say: every bit helps. The Internetland is a wonderful place indeed.

To pubish or not to publish

Looking over my webstats I find myself listed as a contributor in an upcoming Logo2 book by Zexis. Which is nice, although I have some reservations as I submitted work over 2 years ago, possible 3, so I am not sure how indicative of current design trends it can be.
In other news, the talented designer and friend Monique Kneepkens is featured in the soon to be published Form book. More details to follow.

Mercenary space marines need logos too

Logo concept for upcoming science fiction movie.

A year in the making

It's nice to see (at long last, in fact well over a year) my latest banners fluttering in the breeze all over Christchurch city. Photos of some of them below, I'll try and get the whole set soon (you can see the illustrations here in the meantime).

Mono-Stereo

Diptych poster set. One of those “rainy day projects” that has eventually come into fruition.

Award wining work

The BBT advertising pieces I created while at Base One have won the Best Use of Advertising, at the Construction Marketing Awards late last year. Excuse the lateness of the news but I only just heard about it.

The Winning Campaign - “All Consuming Ambition”
(Technical & Professional)

Using a humourous hook and eye catching imagery to stand out from our competitors in industry publications, the winning concept uses visuals of structures relevant to sector(s) created out of everyday meals or snacks to demonstrate all consuming ambition.

We have adapted and worked with the designs, not just for publications but E-shots, flyers and posters, as well as banners and exhibition stands. These adverts have proved immensely popular with clients and candidates alike, prompting positive feedback and praise, even from our competitors.

We are extremely proud of the success this advertising campaign has had, and thank you all for the support and feedback you have given over the past year.
More here

Funny how there is no mention of the Base One creative team there… So to rectify that, props to Dave Thomas (CD)and Dan Cummings (production whizz) at Base One and Chris at Storm for his legendary skills with the Hasselblad.

Look what I've just seen

The Vormator book is in store. See more of it here.
(image from Zeptonn/Stinger, link)

Buy this: Vormator released at last

It must have been over 2 years ago that the guys behind the Vormator project sent out their brief. It has just gone on sale so grab yourself a copy and be part of history. Oh, did I mention that my work is featured inside?

Hello Print

This handmade screen-print all about me is now available. If you would like one just leave a comment or drop me an email.

Handmade Typeface

The excellent Bittbox has initiated the development of a community font. This is my submission. Quite literally hand made.

Brand new work

VCT AIM, originally uploaded by smoothfluid.
We’ve been busy working on some fresh new illustrations for the re-brand of venture capital trust company Baronsmead.

It seems I am in Sync®.

The lovely people at Creative Sync think that what I do is worth mentioning, which is nice of them. So here’s a big hello to them. Thanks guys, and Rebecca. The piece you are looking at is best described as a visual representation of the processes involved new product development tool set (aka InnoSuite) for TNS. Confused? In essence their four tools enable loose ideas to become reality. Easy.