A lil’ job I did recently for a bud who makes custom audio gears, amplifiers, effects pedals and the like. Check him out HERE if you are interested. Had a blast doing this one, we went for a stamp so he could churn out endless cards as needed. Looks awesome stamped on all sorts of paper too.
On Saturday the 19th of September I was lucky enough to catch Emory Douglas give a talk at Te Papas Soundings Theater. Emory was the cultural minister for the Black Panther Party from 1967 and still continues to produce powerful work to this day. He is pretty much singly responsible for people referring to cops as pigs, it’s nice to know your history! Every time he said it he would giggle to himself and with his awesomely poetic voice. This was a sight to be seen! Hearing the story of his struggle was hugely inspiring. I think Jessica Werner Zack of the San Francisco Chronicle put it best when she said “The Black Panthers advocated armed struggle. Emory Douglas’ weapon of choice? The pen.” Read more.
My favourite thing he said at the talk was “This is WE art, not ME art.” Decent.
Support him here.
Just got a chance to update my ABOUT section with a somewhat cohesive definition of my design philosophy. It is a work in progress though such as it is always expanding and contracting. If it makes sense to you I’d love to hear your thoughts on it. Any info you can add would be great.
Me and 30cal. painted this piece up on Sunday night. First ever (legit) wall piece, so much fun but soo much work. Fangs to 30cal. for everything, it was emotional but we got there in the end. Also huge thanks to GAG and Doug for hooking us up with the spot. Any time!
Working:
From initial sketches…
To fleshing it out on the wall of our lounge.
And about seven hours of this and she was all done.
Phew.
Some posters I did for a new monthly night of music in Wellington presented in association with RadioActive, The Kitchen Sink and Fluro Magazine. Kept it real on the photocopier at Warehouse Stationary, the middle one has the best distorted image quality in case you were wondering. The other two are shit.
Click the pic for more details and a sneak peek of the original inspiration for them
Issue Nine is out and about now, this thing was a mission but Im happy with the result! First time ever using duotone in all the images and it came out a treat. Fangs to Sam Flaherty for all the help, I dont think it would of got done without him talking me down from the ledge several times. Churs buddy.
I just updated the site with a new piece done for Caffe L’Affare at the Oxfam Trailwalker event in April. Click the pic to check the detail. Churs.
Check out the Oxfam site HERE if you are interested.
Design can make people happy (but free coffee is probably more effective).
Phew! Just finished work on the latest issue of FLURO Magazine. It was a mission but we got there. I designed a new typeface for it too THIS BAG IS NOT A TOY recycled off the back of a piece plastic that was scanned in. You can download the full issue HERE
I have just uploaded my latest work, a collaboration between Fluro Magazine and Good As Gold. Click the pic to check it out.
