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)
Poster design for Red Phoenix Theatre's Caligula
Client: Red Phoenix Theatre (April 2018)
deliverables: poster, DL, promotional collateral and advertisements
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)
Brand design for Balgedie House & Lodge, two luxury homes in East Balgedie near Kinross, Scotland.
The icon is a clean, modern glyph, constructed from the property's twin driveway, and embellished with hints of a Celtic glyph. The horizontal stroke of the "B" functions as a main road, from which the two loops fountain out into two individual driveways.
deliverables: logo suite and style guide
Client: Balgedie House & Lodge (2017)
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
Client: Don Handfield (2017)
Website design and a branding flourish for Australian cabaret singer and actor Michaela Burger. The website has been designed to harmoniously support both its own soft contemporary-deco styling, with the singer’s media-rich content, including audio samples, an abundance of videos and images, and a live calendar.
Cover design and title design for The Dark Age Issue #0 for Free Comic Book Day 2019. Written by Don Handfield.
Client: Motor/Red 5 Comics (December 2018)
Alternative movie poster for Marc Fehse's genre-splice "Sky Sharks": undead Nazis, flying sharks, etc. The poster is a basic tongue-in-cheek inversion of the JAWS poster, given that these undead nazi sharks are...well...in the sky.
Cover art for graphic novel “Unikorn”
written by Don Handfield and Joshua Malkin
Client: Motor (January 2019)
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)
Cover design for The Dark Age Issue #1
Written by Don Handfield.
Client: Motor/Red 5 Comics (December 2018)
Cover design for issue 2 of “The Source” written by Don Handfield and Joshua Malkin, published by Scout Comics
Client: Motor (December 2018)
See also:
The Source Issue 1 cover
The Source Issue 1 variant cover
The Source Issue 1 glow in the dark variant cover
Variant cover design 1/2 for Don Handfield and Joshua Malkin’s “The Source” issue 1. The cover also uses glow in the dark ink to reveal things unseen in the dark (published by Scout Comics October 2018)
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)
Logo design for Adelaide-based production company, Scarlett Media Productions
Variant cover design 2/2 for issue 1 of Dan Handfield and Joshua Malkin’s “The Source” (published by Scout Comics October 2018).
Poster design for Adelaide funk jazz rock music band FRETZONE
Poster design for Independent Theatre’s 2018 season of Thomas Wolfe’s “Look Homeward, Angel”.
Cover design for Don Handfield and Joshua Malkin’s “The Source” issue 1 (published by Scout Comics October 2018).
Logo design for luxury Darwin holiday accomodation SIX SEASONS. The logo is a composite of a shell (a nautical residence) and the number six, using electric tropical colours to convey the tropical ocean and the popular stormy wet season.
deliverables: branding and logo design, website
Client: Six Seasons Accomodation
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)
Brand design for South Australian performing arts school, Adelaide Theatre Academy. The logo is a block of splayed, hand-cut type, anchored to a vertical stroke, expressing the brand’s core values of authenticity, craftsmanship, energy, movement and possibility, and positioning for a non-gender specific adolescent market. the brand is designed to work principally in both black and white, and in the context of a vibrant feature yellow.
Client: Adelaide Theatre Academy (April 2018)
Poster design for Adelaide Theatre Academy's production of Little Shop of Horrors for the 2018 Adelaide Fringe Festival.
deliverables: poster, postcards, print and digital advertising collateral
Client: Adelaide Theatre Academ
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)
Poster design for Red Phoenix Theatre’s 2018 season of “The Man From Earth”
Poster design and promotional collateral for Endeavour College’s 2018 school production “Before Upon a Time”, a bright, fun and colourful rock and roll musical spectacular set in the school days of some of history's most beloved fairytale characters.
Client: Endeavour College
deliverables: campaign artwork, poster, DL, digital promotional assets, illustrated colouring book
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)
deliverables: branding and logo, style guide, website, html email
Client: Blue Dingo Productions
Interim logo design for production company, now rechristened MOTOR
Client: Don Handfield (2017)
Poster design for Vaclav Havel's The Conspirators
deliverables: poster design, DL, advertising and promotional collateral
Client: Red Phoenix Theatre (2017)
Logo design for a location sound recordist / unused concept
2016
Monogram design for wedding of “Michael and Sarah” (2017)
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)
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)
Alternative campaign design for the 2016 Capricorn Film Festival. My actual festival artwork can be found here.
Client: Capricorn Film Festival (2016)
Logo and brand development, based upon an original identity by Band.
Treasury 1860 is a newly rejuvenated large-scale inner-city restaurant and bar. Occupying an historic South Australian building, The Treasury Building, it's a little bit of the old and a little bit of the new. It's branding is a simple hybrid of two typefaces (a serif and a sans-serif).
Nestled in the heart of Adelaide's CBD, Treasury 1860 is giving a new lease of life to one of South Australia's most iconic buildings. The full venue refurbishments were completed in November 2017. With a food and drink menu that offers international, inter-state and local guests an up to the minute taste of South Australia, Treasury 1860 aims to introduce patrons to all the wonders that are available in our own backyard.
deliverables: branding, business cards, letterhead, menus, uniforms, signage
Publication design of investor deck for Australian World War 1 production “All Blood Runs Red”.
Client: Blue Dingo Productions
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)
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 #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)
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 #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 and DL design for Red Phoenix Theatre’s 2018 season launch.
Poster for "Orphans" produced by BlueFruit Theatre
Bakehouse Theatre, Adelaide, South Australia
deliverables: poster, promotional and advertising collateral
Client: BlueFruit Theatre (November 2013)
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 Anna Thomas' one woman show "How to Drink Wine like a Wanker" at Treasury 1860, Adelaide Fringe 2018
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
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)
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)
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 adaptation of Boothe Tarkington's "The Magnificent Ambersons"
deliverables: poster, DL, advertising and promotional collateral
Client: Independent Theatre (2013)
Entry for the 2012 Annual Poster Biennial, A Mother's Life is Precious
deliverables: poster
Client: Self (2012)
Campaign art for World Aids Day, SA / "HIV is still here"
Client: The AIDS Council of South Australia (2011)
