Blogroll was my Honors year research project. It started as an earnest attempt to reclaim the tangible forms of music consumption (a somewhat lost cause), and ended as a social commentary, an interface, and a fun consumer product. In September 2010, I contributed Blogroll to Neville Brody’s fantastic AntiDesign Festival.
Geoff Christie was a master butcher, mentor, and inspiration to many. We got to work on this industry award given in his memory. Production by Dave Black/Shayne Priddle.
In an attempt to get my head around the council’s less-than-awesome booklet about Busking in Wellington, I redesigned their small textbook into a fold-out A3 brochure.
Traditional university brief. I was fascinated by the idea of ‘performative’ packaging, or packaging that could be re-arranged by the user.
The brief was simple: create a type specimen broadsheet for Akizdenz Grotesk. Digging into the history of this iconic typeface, I decided the best approach would be to celebrate just how old Akizdenz really is. Before E = mc squared, before the Titanic, before Eric Gill, and even before sliced bread, there was Akizdenz Grotesk.
This piece of work won me two BeST awards in 2009 – Gold in Student Graphic Design and Outstanding in Student Graphic Design.
Another old project (2008) for Wellington (and recently Brisbane) act Magnify. Animating the butterfly was an intense task, I worked new years eve through to new years day on it to meet a Jan 2 deadline!
Here’s one from a couple of years back. Thank goodness there’s still some markets where Flash isn’t dead and websites are allowed to be fun 
Graphic design by John Morris, interactive by me.
GoingDigital website is up. I learned lots about the Google Maps API and how to trigger analytics within a jQuery application. More thoughts coming soon on this.
http://www.goingdigital.co.nz/
Ah, it’s wedding season again! A little emblem I drew for a friend’s wedding.
These guys wanted something simple and classic to fit a DL. Illustration by Julia, who’s married to Vaughan, a ninja illustrator. Check out his blog here:
http://vaughanflanagan.blogspot.com/
