Vision 20|20

In late 2020 I got to help with this great project named Vision 20|20. It’s about vision testing resources and learning for school students.

The dynamic team was made up of occupational therapists, an optometrist, product designers, and a whole big mob of teachers and intermediate school kids. The Vision 20|20 team asked me on board to help design some testing resources, and a logo, and to create some short animations.

Update: the project is a finalist won silver in the Best Design Awards, in the category Value of Design. Woop! Thanks to Machiko, Mary, Kelechi and Sarah and the rest of the team.

New beer label for Cell Division

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.

Bye, Musikband

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.

New DCC street banners

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.

Fishing co-op food donations

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.