Get your Christmas wallpaper wrapping on!

Posted on December 7, 2010 by spore*

To celebrate the festive season I’ve illustrated up this desktop wallpaper to get you in the mood It’s more of a Southern hemisphere flavoured illustration but you Northerners can enjoy dreaming of the next endless summer!

I’ve uploaded the christmas design in a few sizes for you all…just click the size you’re after and then right click to save!

1680 x 1050 desktop wallpaper

1440 x 900 desktop wallpaper

1024 x 600 netbook wallpaper

1024 x 1024 iPad wallpaper

640 x 960 iPhone 4 wallpaper (retina display)

320 x 480 iPhone wallpaper

Urbis Magazine interview !

Posted on November 24, 2010 by spore*

Very happy to let you all know (if you didn’t already) I’ve been interviewed in the latest Urbis design magazine. Featuring a few questions about me as a graphic designer, what I do and some recent projects I’ve been working on. Along with some great shots of the studio (wow the studio’s never looked so tidy ).

The magazine also features some highly talented New Plymouth’ian (and Okato’ite!) creatives, which I am very honoured to sit alongside with in the pages.

You can grab yourself a copy at most magazine shops around New Zealand & Australia. It’s out now if you’d like a look!

Graphic art prints inspiration

Posted on August 25, 2009 by spore*

scott-saw art print

robot graphic design art print

Check out these awesome prints I just received from Scott Saw over in the USofA. The guys got some great talent and puts out some seriously fine printwork! Beaut details on these prints, can’t wait to get them up on my studio wall.

If getting these grand prints wasn’t enough..I actually won them on a giveway Scott had on Twitter…Lucky me! You can check out more of his work on his site and get his latest news via Scott’s TwitterFeed.

Right it’s time for a hangin’ !

doodle, colour, print!

Posted on August 3, 2009 by spore*

doodle

Thought I’d post up this fun little design project I completed recently. An open brief to do a birthday party invite! Armed with the knowledge of knowing he loves his fly fishing I had the idea of doing some fishing line based typography, which of course naturally required including an intoxicated looking trout into the design! Being a masterful woodworking craftsmen I knew he’d appreciate a hand finished look so this really helped define the graphic style I was going for.

Really enjoyed putting this one together from a sketch and doodle, through to inking up, scanning, colouring in the marvel that is Photoshop, and finally printing, chopping up and delivery.

type

fish

final

(and yes the party was great fun too )

Exhibition / Percy Thomson Gallery

Posted on February 17, 2009 by spore*

Wow time has flown! Suddenly it is time already for my joint exhibition at the Percy Thomson Gallery. I will be exhibiting a selection of all new and limited edition prints. A mix of photography and graphical styles are merged to the theme of “current”.

These will be featured alongside a spacial installation by Nicola Healy and 3D animation by Katie O’Donnell. It also coincides with the opening of an exhibition by printmaker Anthony Davies with a 10 year retrospective of his works. The little I have seen of his work it is quite an exciting style of printmaking and I believe it will be well worth a look.

Opening night for all exhibits is Saturday 21st Feb 7:30pm at the Percy Thomson Gallery Stratford, Taranaki, New Zealand. Come along to view the new works and have a chat! The exhibition runs until the 10th March, 10:30-3 weekends and 10-4 weekdays. All my prints will be available for purchase.

Hope to see you there!

Graduate Exhibition Invite

Posted on November 2, 2008 by spore*

Continuing the graduates ’3 scoops’ ice cream theme from the previously posted poster, this is the invite I designed for the exibition invites. Bookmark sized they feature a classic scoop and the logo design as seen on the poster. Any guesses as to the style of the graduates info booklet? Theres a bit of hint with the invite design…currently at the printers!

If your in the area be sure to drop in for a look around, there will be some Spore* freebies available (first in, first served!) and an ale or wine on offer. The exibition opening is on the 14th November – 6.30pm at the WITT campus, New Plymouth, New Zealand. If you can’t make the opening night you can still view for the following week.

A book

Posted on October 22, 2008 by spore*

Just completed a little personal design project I’ve been doing. The book uses a selection of my photographs combined with poems from New Zealand poetry. Each poem and photo was chosen to best complement each other, with the typography uniquely set for each piece in an effort to further enhance the feel.

The binding was done with french fold technique (so pages are folded on the outisde edge) and held together with the great simple Japanese binding method. A tutorial for this can be found here!

A few of the layouts and the cover….

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Graduate Exhibition 2008

Posted on October 17, 2008 by spore*

Well it is rapidly approaching… Only a few more weeks till November 14th and final exhibition day!

I was asked to create the theme and design work for the graduates event, and below is what I came up with. The example shown is one of the limited edition screen printed versions of the poster design (sans-sponsor logos). The 3 scoops ‘ice cream’ theme is carried through all the print material and even had the graduates taking part in an ice cream battle for the exhibition book (will post up some casualties photos soon!).

Many thanks to all the students that got the printing done – they look great!

3 scoops logo design

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