A job-lot of these great things – fast short creative mini-projects! Nga mihi to client Jamie McQ for all the sweet ideas and names and opportunities.
Cell Division's new ciders
Design for cans and tap badges for Jamie’s new classy cider Linda, and its offshoot The Orchardist for which he collaborated with Peckham’s. It was fun trying to create the feel of Winnie-the-Pooh books.
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.
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.
