Street art and other urban ephemera




Buildings, people, flora and forna

Some Montaging

For conceptual purposes and Lecture presenations...more to come

The Design Process

image 1 of 8 -

a person uses both hands to capture water from a waterfall . . .

- the consumer

image 4 of 8 -

other people see what the person is doing and want to know . . .
- the educator, teaching and learning

image 6 of 8-

the person making the best pots is asked to exchange for other goods . . .
- the dealer & customer (seller & buyer) = trading (demand & supply)

--

These are 3 out of 8 in a sequence to arbitrarily describe the design process (going back to the beginning of mankind). The story was devised by Thomas Bley and the images were to be used as part of a Lecture Presentation.

The process is to assess something about how complex and multi-faceted the design process is. The sequence is relatively simple, describing loosely a transition from, the consumer, the user, the inventor/craftsperson, the educator, the competition, the dealer and customer to trade, specialization, and to co-operation, manufacturing [corporation].

oid logo

Engagement Party Invitation

cdt logo [communication design theory]

Skopec Poster

315 Booklet

Cover for the DESI315/325 project options booklet.

Some Vector Art

302 Logo

Like Clock Work

A signature image for my Dad's email account [he works in timetables at the
University of Otago]

Sample 2006

Promotion for the 2006 student exhibition Sample [Novemeber, 2006].

305 One Wo/Man Army and Lost Buildings

Basic branding for a 3rd year student project One Wo/man Army and Lost Buildings.

Some Pages from the Sketchbook

[arteries of the head, side view of a head half (the
other side was chopped off),neck structure, embryo]

[a goat and a dogs middle]

An abandoned competition entry idea. for the 2005 BJ Ball calender competition. The prompt was 'figure of speech'. My figure of speech was Guerilla Warfare. I idea was to have two Gorillas dressed in Army fatigues playing chess [the ultimate tactical game of territory]. I ran out time with this one. I only got half the elements drawn and ended up missing the cut-off date.

24 Hour Comic [2005]

November, 2005. A second attempt at a 24 hour Comic [with Alex Gilks, Stuart Medley, Garry McLanachan and for a time, Brendon Rich]. The concept was pretty loose, basically about a narcoleptic robot trying to make sense of its condition.

Political Corruption in Latin America [Summer School 2007]

This job one was pretty prescriptive. The image was to advertise a 2007 Summer School paper at the University of Otago entitled: POLS 233 Political Corruption in Latin America: A Comparative Perspective.

The co-ordinator knew exactly what he wanted: “a background of a map of Latin America, stretching out from the Rio Grande down to Cape Horn with a hand handing a bunch of dollar bills to another hand, over the background map.”

International Science Festival [July, 2006]

A banner for the Department of Design Studies to accompany a display at the International Science Festival: Science Futures: New Horizons, held early July.

Summer School 2005/2006 [desi 208 : : Drawing Design]

Course Guide Cover

Poster to advertise the students end of course exhibition entitled The Life and Death of the Pencil.

A poster for the end of course exhibition from the previous year.

Sample 2005 Exhibition Poster

Poster for an exhibition entitled Sample, which showcased the best student work produced within Design Studies for 2005. The poster concept was to loosely implicate that a lot of the work produced now within the department had become increasingly [even solely] mechanized. Even teaching and nurturing of technical manual skill are being replaced by equivalent digital procedures as vector drawing as a replacement for analogue/freehand drawing. This obviously could not be implied overtly, because, for an exhibition of this nature, it was about celebrating student success. The theme therefore is suggested through subtle cues, of elements which imply a replacement or reliance on machine - traffic crossing [reliance on cars, trains], digger [replacement for a spade or hand], and industrial [tasks produced on a mass scale].

In keeping with the exhibition, the cyan circular logo with a wedge taken out, implies that this is a small fraction of the total amount of work produced by students within the department. The irregular shape of mark is the same as that dug out [in three places] by the digger to suggest the shape could be two or three dimensional as the student works in the exhibition were.

Another twist to the poster was that even though each of the elements on the page was flat [composed of vector shapes], the placement of them does create a constructed 'scene' and gives a sense of recessive space. The location, size and detail of elements adheres to a loose atmospheric perspective - foreground things are more detailed and colour distinguishable where things in the background are greyer and less detailed.

Computational Fluid Dynamics Conference Poster

This poster was a lecture supplement at the Global Change in Mountain Regions conference, as part of open Science congress held in Perth, Scotland, and the UK, 2-6 October 2005. This one was a struggle - so much info, so little room. It effectively functioned as a mini-essay on using computational fluid dynamics as a tool to model wind flow and snow distribution around experimental snow fences placed on the Old Man Range, Central Otago, South Island, New Zealand [blimmy!]. A lot of restrictions - typeface and especially space - although the poster was A1, there was so much type to shape with images and just making the thing read logically. This was not the arrangement I thought worked best, but still expresses well a degree of visual sensibility, balance, hierarchy, and being readable for the display purpose, oh and getting some white space in there [I think I managed pretty well]. Of course also not making it echo the tragicness of the typical 'Science' poster, that I'm sure would have been prevalent at the conference.

Behind the Seen 2005 Poster

Behind the Scene was an end of year exhibition which features selected design projects from the Special Topic paper, desi305. The paper is full-year is usually the place where most undergraduate students will produce their most polished outcomes. Students work closely throughout the year with a Supervisor [who each offer varied options in either graphic, narrative, animation, architectural and product design from which the students choose].

The concept for the poster loosely reflects the relationship of the student to their supervisor - where the Supervisor in a way, is like a director of a movie / over-seer to the student, yet that student is also supported by a number of other staff / client / students as well as the technical devices they utilize. They are throughout the year under the microscope of all these factors - maintaining a constant open relationship with the Supervisor but also in grappling with materials and skills they are not immediately familiar with.

This movie studio-like parallel reflects also that the students are working as well in their own studio space [computer lab, open desk]. The title, 'behind the seen' also suggests something to do with a scene in a movie or that one does not generally see the extent of the production / support crew that goes into the final outcome. The movie prompt was carried through into the arrangement of the student names at the bottom, described aptly as a cast and arranged similar to that of movie credits.

The visual prompt for the arrangement of the scene was a panel from Herge's The Castafiore Emerald [1963]. I basically used just the silhouette shape of these depicted characters because I wanted them to be more anonymous / general.

Birthday Invitation

This invitation [map and cover image] were done to celebrate my 25th birthday. Conceptually, not much too it - just really an aesthetic train of thought, playful, absurd, self-indulgent. The map located what seemed critical marker point for finding my place - the disgusting Ford Cortina parked out front, owned my front neighbours [now gone thankfully] - often worked on, never driven. Part way down the road, a wee vessel called the ‘Scoundrel’ which in the time that I have lived in my flat, has never moved. And on entry to the road - a Mobil on one corner and a ear therapist on the other.

The other, cover image [above] was pretty chaotic - I wanted to make use of as many of the ‘started but never finished’ pile design projects as I could. I ended up only using two - the character [me], was an illustrative take-off of Little Mike from Twin Peaks. I had this idea of creating a series of OBEY like stickers, based on David Lynch characters but none really came to fruition. The only one I did actually finished was of the Log Lady [Twin Peaks also], anyway I digress. So when I made the original Little MIke, I never got around to modeling the head so I decided to place my own in this one and give myself a eye patch to make me seem more shifty. The other element in the arrangement from a started project was the rubbish in the background [story about that in previous post]. The rest mostly speak for itself - the view is that of the back entrance to my place with things basically just added to it. The windows on the side I manually drew in, plus the power lines [which don’t normally exist] with lots of crows. The conveyor belt of crabs is a reference to me star sign. It was suppose to be sort of symbolic of my life - something that keeps on moving - some years at one end [hopefully quite a few more], but some gone out and taken away out the other side.

NB. I discovered in creating the invitation that I shared the same birthday as George W Bush, 50 Cent and Sly Stallone, lucky me!

Cel-animation, some dabbling

Complex Stair Sequence from themachobox and Vimeo.

Prints

Exhibited as part of a staff exhibition entitled See Through, held at the Community Gallery on Princess Street, Dunedin.


This one that never made it into the exhibition. The image was later used however, for an exhibition poster for the Port Chalmers Maratine Museum.

Icon Design

Human Nutrition Maps

These maps, to accompany a paper published in the International Clinical Nutrition Review, were to graphically compare the corresponding latitude position of New Zealand in the Southern hemisphere to the USA and Europe in the north.

The maps where to graphically accompany research based on the vitamin D defincency and insufficency in adults and adolescents in these comparative areas, which from what I understand are similar, based on environmental and global relativeness. The comparative study was to examine the resulting negative sketal consequences such as increased bone turnover, rates of bone loss and fracture risk. The research was part of grant project conducted by The Department of Human Nutrition at the University of Otago, and In just being designer of these maps, i was not privy to the details of their findings other to know how they were to be used for further conferences lecture, and in-house presentation keynotes.