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Farewell Steve! Inventor, Typographer & Calligrapher

October 6, 2011 | 374 views

Farewell Steve! Inventor, Typographer & Calligrapher

TweetI have never paid any attention to anything Steve had to say… I only knew he was a great guy who transformed Apple to become the most valuable company in the US, but never knew that he was involved with calligraphy and typography 10 years before he stepped into the technology world. “It was the first [...]

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Proud Supporter of the Rugby Book

August 19, 2011 | 413 views

Proud Supporter of the Rugby Book

Tweet Proud Supporter of Canterbury Rugby Football Experience With the Rugby World Cup 2011 around the corner, I thought it’s a good time to post something about the Christchurch Rugby on my blog. Proud to support Canterbury through the Canterbury Rugby Football Experience. Joseph was delighted to be asked to take professional photography of the [...]

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Ijada Logo & Web Design Process

December 8, 2010 | 1,633 views

Ijada Logo & Web Design Process

Tweet We’ve had great pleasure in the design and development of the new Corporate Identity System, and the new Website Design for Ijada Consulting Limited. Ijada is an unique advisory services and networking opportunities tailored especially for current and prospective clients in New Zealand’s education and migration industry. Ijada (pronounced eee-jar dah) is Spanish for [...]

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Mobile Graphic Design Office?

November 1, 2010 | 4,069 views

Mobile Graphic Design Office?

Tweet Converting an old caravan to a mobile design office? Caravans are generally pretty expensive, and I did not want to pull apart a good caravan for this project, this is when the older it is, the better! Dreaming of  owning a caravan for quite some time now, after a bit of looking around this [...]

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Christchurch Earthquake Cloud

October 2, 2010 | 5,431 views

Christchurch Earthquake Cloud

Tweet Clouds that reflect to the mood of the people, after the the 7.1 magnitude earthquake happened in Christchurch on 4 September 2010 @ 3.45am. The biggest earthquake Christchurch has ever felt, damaging houses, schools, historical buildings, and shut down the Christchurch central city for 2 weeks! It hailed the night before the big quake, [...]

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Graphic Design as Art – Part 4/6

August 17, 2010 | 9,088 views

Graphic Design as Art – Part 4/6

Tweet 50cm x 100cm, digital print on canvas Visual Works on Close Up Yiyi finally decided to choose Music over Medicine as her studies at the University of Canterbury. Music is what she is passionate about, but Medicine is something she is really good at; it was a difficult decision as my dad really wanted [...]

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Graphic Design as Art – Part 3/6

August 14, 2010 | 2,689 views

Graphic Design as Art – Part 3/6

Tweet Permanent UV ink on canvas, 50cm x 100cm, scroll bound contemporary Chinese style Visual Work – Sections on Close Up Chinese character for ‘Learn’ ‘學’. The bottom part of this character is ‘Child’,  ‘子’, a child with knowledge on top of his/her head. Please observe the 2 crosses within the top brackets, I picked [...]

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Graphic Design as Art – Part 2/6

August 12, 2010 | 2,749 views

Graphic Design as Art – Part 2/6

TweetPermanent UV ink on canvas, 50cm x 100cm, scroll bound contemporary Chinese style Visual Work – Sections on Close Up Chinese Pictograph for ‘Fly’ ‘飛’ As you can see the character is a drawing of a bird. Introduction to Chinese Calligraphic Scripts (Chinese Fonts) Chinese character for ‘Home’ ‘家’ 1. 篆書 Chuan-Shu (Seal Script) This [...]

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Graphic Design as Art – Part 1/6

July 22, 2010 | 3,375 views

Graphic Design as Art – Part 1/6

Tweet When I say ‘Graphic Design as Art’, I mean there is no ‘Client’ involved in the process of making, and there is ‘No Commercial Value’ in the work produced, and most importantly, there is no one I need to please apart from myself! This is the visual representation of  my written work completed in [...]

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Logo Design Process for Wagmu

July 19, 2010 | 3,807 views

Logo Design Process for Wagmu

Tweet I have completed a brand identity design for Wagmu.com. John (owner) approached me through my website, and asked if I could assist with the re-design of their existing logo. John has a website promoting diet tracking, menu planing, and nutritional analysis (www.wagmu.com), a wonderful service that John is providing! Design Brief Supplied by Client [...]

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