CINEMÂCHÉ is a team of award-winning Adelaide filmmakers who share the singular goal of making motion pictures that are collaborative, immersive and atmospheric. They create sensory experiences that are powered by layered and lavish palettes, contrasting textures and embellished colours.
The logo I designed as part of their corporate branding is a fusion of digital noise and the stylised palette of a typically vibrant papier mâché Piñata. This allows for a rich pattern application across all stationery, web and collateral assets.
deliverables: identity and logo suite, style guide, specialty business cards, traditional stationery, art print brand application
Client: CINEMÂCHÉ (2015)
Red Fox Films is a boutique Adelaide film and video design studio. Their bespoke and hand-made approach to film making is reflected in their corporate branding, a watercolour fox, curiously engaging with a hovering insect.
While the logo mark is unusually detailed and complex, it was essential to convey the degree of personality and affection that Red Fox Films wanted to present to their clients. The logo lends itself warmly to micro-animations that enhance its presence on digital platforms.
deliverables: logo and branding, letterhead, animation, emboss stamp, sticker, comps slip, html email signature, website, business card, usb stick, plain signage, illuminated signage
Client: Red Fox Films (2015)
Branding and key art design for 2016 Capricorn Film Festival, Queensland.
The key art is a pencil illustration of goats horn fused with a strip of film, in the shape of a large capital C. The 2016 festival identity is a simple thick stoke icon representing the tropic of Capricorn as it passes around a tilted earth. Its colour is inherited from the key art.
deliverables: branding, logo suite and style guide, key art, advertisements, billboards, pull-up banner, social media, standard brand collateral
Client: Capricorn Film Festival (2016)
Logo design and branding for Don Handfield's production company MOTOR.
The identity draws upon vintage car logos and mechanical and corporate sci-fi, in a simple lightning bolt "M".
deliverables: branding, logo suite and style guide, website, animated collateral
Client: Don Handfield (2017)
Michael Allen is a South Australian theatrical entrepreneur and artistic director, managing a production company (Michael Allen Productions) that delivers both live-action and live webcast productions to South Australians and increasingly wider international audiences.
His company's logo and branding is a simple, black monogram of M and A.
deliverables: logo and branding, audio-visual, promotion collateral, business cards, letterheads, html email signature
Client: Michael Allen (2013)
Logo design for Don Handfield and Richard Rayner (The Rift, Knightfall). The initial logo is a stark black and white icon of a front-facing astronaut, arms reaching beyond the perimeter of the brand's blackness. The logo preserves its white/black balance and is not inverted when applied to dark backgrounds. For television and other screen environments, an embellished version of the logo was produced for History's "Knightfall" that adds bright illuminations to the astronauts helmet lamps, and a bold red identifier.
deliverables: logo suite, style guide
Client: OUTS1DERS (2016)
Cover Art for The Rift Issue #1
presented by Jeremy Renner
written by Don Handfield and Richard Rayner
published by Red5 Comics
deliverables: front & back covers, credits page
Client: The Combine/OUTS1DERS (January 2017)
Interim logo design for production company, now rechristened MOTOR
Client: Don Handfield (2017)
Identity design for Clear Capture Audio (location sound recording and post production). The logo is a composite of "C" and "A" sculpted around either end of an XLR cable.
deliverables: brand design and logo suite, style guide, website, traditional stationery, html email
Client: Clear Capture Audio (2016)
A series of self-devised alterations, amendments, impoverishments and refreshments. The ordinary made weird, the banal made brutal, the familiar made far.
See project detail at Behance
Client: Self (2015)
Season playbill and subscription brochure for Independent Theatre's 2016 theatrical season. Four collage constructions for each play, accompanied by elegant, classical typography.
Deliverables: seven fold brochure and digital collateral
Client: Independent Theatre (2015)
Minimal alternate movie posters for Andrei Tarkovsky. The posters have been left untitled. The year of release, cast and glyph should be enough to deduce which is which.
Client: Self (2015)
Poster design for Vaclav Havel's The Conspirators
deliverables: poster design, DL, advertising and promotional collateral
Client: Red Phoenix Theatre (2017)
Poster design for Peter Goërs' Fringe Show Smoked Ham playing at Holden Street Theatres in the 2017 Adelaide Fringe Festival
deliverables: poster and postcard
Client: Peter Goërs (February 2017)
Cover Art for The Rift Issue #4
presented by Jeremy Renner
written by Don Handfield and Richard Rayner
published by Red5 Comics
deliverables: front & back covers, credits page
Client: The Combine/OUTS1DERS (April 2017)
Alternative campaign design for the 2016 Capricorn Film Festival. My actual festival artwork can be found here.
Client: Capricorn Film Festival (2016)
Poster design for Jules Feifer's The White House Murder Case
deliverables: poster design, DL, advertising and promotional collateral
Client: Red Phoenix Theatre (2017)
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Poster design for Independent Theatre's staged play-reading of Peter Shaffer's Amadeus.
Client: Independent Theatre (2017)
Independent Theatre has been enthralling Adelaide audiences with top quality theatre of dramatic significance since 1984. Its work covers the gamut of theatrical writing, from Ancient Greek tragedies to Australian and world premieres of brand new plays.
The brand needed to be simple and visible without being generic, and convey strength, sturdiness and solidarity. The red bolt locks the two sans-serif variants, providing a strong natural contrast against the logo's black and white bent. The logo has been designed to preference white canvases and backgrounds.
The red bolt is the company's main asset that can be deconstructed and applied across the its extended branding.
deliverables: logo, logo suite, style guide, website, letterhead and A4 template, business cards, pull-up banner
Client: Independent Theatre (2012)
Cover Art for The Rift Issue #3
presented by Jeremy Renner
written by Don Handfield and Richard Rayner
published by Red5 Comics
deliverables: front & back covers, credits page
Client: The Combine/OUTS1DERS (March 2017)
Branding and logo design for South Australian theatre company, Red Phoenix Theatre. The icon was inspired by Ancient Greek illustration, because it is home to both the mythical Phoenix and the Theatre.
deliverables: logo suite, style guide, business cards, letterheads, html email
Client: Red Phoenix Theatre (2016)
My personal branding refresh for 2015. The monogram translates along both its vertical and horizontal axes, simultaneously conveying the "N" of Nicholas and the (lowercase) "e" of Ely.
deliverables: logo suite, style guide, business cards, letterhead, invoice and quote templates, html email signature, signage, website, assorted collateral
Client: Self (2015)
Poster design for Independent Theatre's production of Before the Party. by Rodney Ackland, based on the short story by Somerset Maugham.
deliverables: poster, promotional and advertising collateral
Client: Independent Theatre (April 2017)
A kennel of cosmic scraps and delinquent geometry.
Client: Self (ongoing)
Poster for "Orphans" produced by BlueFruit Theatre
Bakehouse Theatre, Adelaide, South Australia
deliverables: poster, promotional and advertising collateral
Client: BlueFruit Theatre (November 2013)
Cover Art for The Rift Issue #2
presented by Jeremy Renner
written by Don Handfield and Richard Rayner
published by Red5 Comics
deliverables: front & back covers, credits page
Client: The Combine/OUTS1DERS (February 2017)
Poster design for Ross, the Lives of Lawrence of Arabia for Adelaide's Independent Theatre.
deliverables: poster, promotional and advertising collateral
Client: Independent Theatre (2016)
Poster design for Hamlet
deliverables: poster, DL, advertising and promotional collateral
Client: Independent Theatre (2016)
Poster design for Two Brothers (Holden Street Theatres, May 2017, Adelaide, South Australia)
deliverables: poster, DL, advertising and promotional collateral
Client: Red Phoenix Theatre (2017)
Poster design for short film TRUE BLUE
Client: Shining Kite, dir. Tom Goodall (2016)
Poster design for "Bracken Moor" Independent Theatre 2014 Odeon Theatre, Adelaide, South Australia
deliverables: poster, DL, advertising and promotional collateral
Client: Independent Theatre (2014)
Poster design for Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night
deliverables: poster design, DL, advertising and promotional collateral
Client: Independent Theatre (2015)
Poster design for David Williamson's Don Parties On
deliverables: poster design, DL, advertising and promotional collateral
Client: Red Phoenix Theatre (2016)
Brand design and collateral for Adelaide cabaret act Exposing Edith, and their 2016 Edinburgh tour, with Michaela Burger (vocals) and Greg Wain (instrumental).
deliverables: posters, postcards, branding and identity design, advertising collateral
Client: Michael Burger and Greg Wain (2013-2016)
Poster design for The Dead Move Fast, produced by Michael Allen Productions, directed by Michael Allen
deliverables: poster, postcards, advertising and promotional collateral
Client: Michael Allen Productions (2014) / IS design + digital
Cover design for Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment
Client: Self (2015)
Poster design for Cry God For Harry
deliverables: poster, DL, advertising collateral
Client: Independent Theatre (2017)
illustration / The Brown Fox is looking at a thing What is the thing? What does it want? Why does the fox care? Does the fox care? These and other questions (2016).
Client: Self (2016)
Poster design for Titus Andronicus (Holden Street Theatres August 2016 Adelaide, South Australia)
deliverables: poster, DL, advertising and promotional collateral
Client: Red Phoenix Theatre (2016)
Poster for John Logan's Peter & Alice (2014, Space Theatre, Adelaide Festival Centre, South Australia)
deliverables: poster, DL, large signage, advertising and promotional collateral
Client: Independent Theatre (2014)
photographs by David Wilson
Poster for William Shakespeare's The Tragedy of Julius Caesar
Client: Self (2016)
All cats don’t care. Some cats are alley cats. All alley cats don’t care.
Client: Self (2016)
A menagerie of minimal, abstract, geometric animals. Most are supremely simple constructions.
Client: Self (2016)
Drawing of a Sydney Funnel Web Spider. Pencil on yellow.
Client: Self (2015)
Promotion images for Red Phoenix Theatre'S 2016-2017 season. Structuring its seasons around impolite human themes (politics for 2016-2017) each image distills a faceless universal "type" from each play.
deliverables: posters, DL, advertising and promotional collateral
Client: Red Phoenix Theatre (2016)
The Great Gatsby poster for Independent Theatre's 2015 premiere.
The Space, Adelaide Festival Centre, South Australia
deliverables: poster, DL, advertising and promotional collateral
Client: Independent Theatre (September 2015)
More detail at Behance
Because fruit has feelings too. The first in a one-strong self-devised series of sad, bisected fruit.
Client: Self (2016)
A non-prescriptive 3d depiction of a razor blade emblazoned with a worn out Stars and Stripes.
Client: Self (2016)
Former foot model turned dental hygiene spokesman after he ate his own feet, Monty is the classic out-of-control rockstar come good, albeit for his continuing urge to inflict suffering on anything.
Client: Self (2015)
Angst Cat desperately seeking owner with stable worldview.
Client: Self (2015)
John Lennon, oil on canvas.
Client: Self (2012)
Leed Engineering's animated 2013 xmas e-card. Featured on BlenderNation. Models and Rigs by Me. Animation and rendering by Ryan Stephens.
deliverables: textured models for 3d animation sequence
Client: Leed Engineering (2013) / IS design + digital
3d modelling and texturing for Oscar's Law and DOGS film, composited with green screen live action. 3d environment modelled and textured by me. Composite, track, render and post by Ryan Stephens.
deliverables: complete 3d environment for single shot green screen motion track
Client: Oscars Law (2015) / IS design + digital
Poster for Independent Theatre's moved reading of "The One Day of the Year" Anzac Eve 2015.
deliverables: poster, DL, promotion and advertising collateral
Client: Independent Theatre (2015)
A series of 3d images projected onto the set of Independent Theatre's 2014 production "Caesar and Cleopatra"
deliverables: assorted 3d images for projection
Client: Independent Theatre (2014)
Poster for adaptation of Boothe Tarkington's "The Magnificent Ambersons"
deliverables: poster, DL, advertising and promotional collateral
Client: Independent Theatre (2013)
Alternative movie poster for Marc Fehse's genre-splice "Sky Sharks": undead Nazis, flying sharks, etc.
Entry for the 2012 Annual Poster Biennial, A Mother's Life is Precious
deliverables: poster
Client: Self (2012)
Poster for Independent Theatre's 2016 production of Thornton Wilder's "The Matchmaker"
Campaign art for World Aids Day, SA / "HIV is still here"
Client: The AIDS Council of South Australia (2011)
