Kia ora. Here’s a handful of fairly recent bits of work.
Here’s a new beer label for Jamie' McQuillan’s boss beers. This one is a thing he’s been working on up in Tasman with Peckham’s Cider, and it’s named Fire Graff. It’s coming out soon, in a can.
Jamie wanted something that felt Surrealist, like a Magritte painting, and we settled on the idea of a painting of the two main ingredients on fire. I’m not a good painter, but I made the idea suited a nice flattish naive style, and was good fun to paint. Thanks to Liz who did the sweet letters.
I had to share just one more of these. Die Musikband unfortunately had to dis-band, and recently enjoyed the happy-sad feeling of playing a great final gig (thanks, friends and Crown people!). Here’s the poster I made. The band were all stoked with the idea of something that felt Soviet poster-ish, and this sort of coincided with Yuri Gagarin’s pioneer journey into space 60 years ago. Our bass player Karen is a massive fan, she urged me to include Vostok 1. In the foreground is the Cadbury’s building, viewed from our practice rooms, bandaged like a small-town Christo work, soon to be demolished for the new hospital. Lots of change.
I was super lucky to get to design these street banners for Dunedin City Council. They’re up around the city, flapping away happily and being tricky to photograph on my phone.
The client had a nice idea about birds, and I decided to represent bush birds vs coastal birds, and sneak in a favourite bird or two. There was a nice bit in the local paper.
A fast-n-friendly formula for the Port Chalmers Fishing Co-op to deliver some meal ideas, along with some of their kindly donated catch, to people in need around Dunedin.
I made up these decision-making cards for a local Dungeons and Dragons group for young people with disabilities, that my son is part of.
The great group is run by the good people from Community Care Trust. These cards were the idea of therapist Sean, and I just wanted to make them look tight, so that they might look like an official part of the game. The idea is to simplify some of the many complex choices that a player has to make in D&D, which could be especially useful if they have something like cognitive disability and/or high anxiety. And, we pretty much all respond more seriously to things that are nicer, more formalised, where more love has gone into it.
