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Nicholas Ely | Graphic Designer | Adelaide, South Australia

Graphic Design | Adelaide, South Australia

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CINEMÂCHÉ BRANDING

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)

cinemache.com.au

Red Fox Films branding

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) 

redfoxfilms.com.au

Caligula

Poster design for Red Phoenix Theatre's Caligula 

Client: Red Phoenix Theatre (April 2018)

deliverables: poster, DL, promotional collateral and advertisements

Balgedie House & Lodge

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

www.balgediehouseandlodge.com

Client: Balgedie House & Lodge (2017)

 

Motor Branding

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)

Michael Allen Productions

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)

www.michaelallenproductions.com

Capricorn Film Festival

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)

capricornfilmfestival.com

Cat Fish

Cat v Fish. Blender 3d.

Client: Self (2015)

More detail at Behance

The Rift Cover Art

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)

Ex Machina logo

Interim logo design for production company, now rechristened MOTOR

Client: Don Handfield (2017)

Clear Capture Audio Branding

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) 

clearcaptureaudio.com

Little Shop of Horrors

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

Curiosities

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)

Black Beacon

deliverables: music video, website, brand design

Client: Black Beacon

blackbeacon.net

Tarkovsky poster suite

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)

The Conspirators

Poster design for Vaclav Havel's The Conspirators

deliverables: poster design, DL, advertising and promotional collateral

Client: Red Phoenix Theatre (2017)

Location Audio Logo

Logo design for a location sound recordist / unused concept

2016

Smoked Ham

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)

The Rift Issue 4 cover

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)

Capricorn Film Festival

Alternative campaign design for the 2016 Capricorn Film Festival. My actual festival artwork can be found here.

Client: Capricorn Film Festival (2016)

capricornfilmfestival.org

Treasury 1860

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

 

The White House Murder Case

Poster design for Jules Feifer's The White House Murder Case

deliverables: poster design, DL, advertising and promotional collateral

Client: Red Phoenix Theatre (2017)

redphoenixtheatre.com

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Amadeus

Poster design for Independent Theatre's staged play-reading of Peter Shaffer's Amadeus.

Client: Independent Theatre (2017)

www.independenttheatre.org.au

OUTS1DERS Logo Design

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)

The Rift issue 3

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)

Season Playbill

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)

independenttheatre.org.au

Red Phoenix Theatre Branding

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)

redphoenixtheatre.com

Personal Branding

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)

Before the Party

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)

independenttheatre.org.au

Zentrifues

A kennel of cosmic scraps and delinquent geometry.

Client: Self (ongoing)

Independent Theatre Branding

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)

www.independenttheatre.org.au

Orphans

Poster for "Orphans" produced by BlueFruit Theatre
Bakehouse Theatre, Adelaide, South Australia

deliverables: poster, promotional and advertising collateral

Client: BlueFruit Theatre (November 2013)

The Rift Cover Issue 2

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)

Hamlet

Poster design for Hamlet

deliverables: poster, DL, advertising and promotional collateral

Client: Independent Theatre (2016)

independenttheatre.org.au

Two Brothers

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)

redphoenixtheatre.com.au

True Blue

Poster design for short film TRUE BLUE

Client: Shining Kite, dir. Tom Goodall (2016)

Bracken Moor

Poster design for "Bracken Moor" Independent Theatre 2014 Odeon Theatre, Adelaide, South Australia

deliverables: poster, DL, advertising and promotional collateral

Client: Independent Theatre (2014)

independenttheatre.org.au

How to Drink Wine like a Wanker

Poster design for Anna Thomas' one woman show "How to Drink Wine like a Wanker" at Treasury 1860, Adelaide Fringe 2018

Long Day's Journey into Night

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)

independenttheatre.org.au

 

Don Parties On

Poster design for David Williamson's Don Parties On

deliverables: poster design, DL, advertising and promotional collateral

Client: Red Phoenix Theatre (2016)

redphoenixtheatre.com

Exposing Edith Branding

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)

exposingedith.com

The Dead Move Fast

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

www.michaelallenproductions.com
 

Crime and Punishment

Cover design for Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment

Client: Self (2015)

Cry God For Harry!

Poster design for Cry God For Harry

deliverables: poster, DL, advertising collateral

Client: Independent Theatre (2017)

Brown Fox Looks at Thing

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)

Titus Andronicus

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)

redphoenixtheatre.com.au

Peter & Alice

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)

independenttheatre.org.au

photographs by David Wilson

Alley Cat

All cats don’t care. Some cats are alley cats. All alley cats don’t care.

Client: Self (2016)

Minimals

A menagerie of minimal, abstract, geometric animals. Most are supremely simple constructions.

Client: Self (2016)

Sydney Funnel Web

Drawing of a Sydney Funnel Web Spider. Pencil on yellow.

Client: Self (2015)

The Great Gatsby

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)

www.independenttheatre.org.au

More detail at Behance

Anxiety Apple

Because fruit has feelings too. The first in a one-strong self-devised series of sad, bisected fruit.

Client: Self (2016)

American Razor

A non-prescriptive 3d depiction of a razor blade emblazoned with a worn out Stars and Stripes.

Client: Self (2016)

Monty

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

Angst Cat desperately seeking owner with stable worldview.

Client: Self (2015)

Beatle John

John Lennon, oil on canvas.

Client: Self (2012)

Leed Engineering

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

Oscar's Law - 3d interior

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

The One Day of the Year

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)

www.independentheatre.org.au

set design Caesar and Cleopatra

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)

www.independenttheatre.org.au

The Magnificent Ambersons

Poster for adaptation of Boothe Tarkington's "The Magnificent Ambersons"

deliverables: poster, DL, advertising and promotional collateral

Client: Independent Theatre (2013)

www.independenttheatre.org.au

Vitruvian Woman

Entry for the 2012 Annual Poster Biennial, A Mother's Life is Precious

deliverables: poster

Client: Self (2012)

The Matchmaker

Poster for Independent Theatre's 2016 production of Thornton Wilder's "The Matchmaker"

To Kill a Mockingbird

World Aids Day

Campaign art for World Aids Day, SA  / "HIV is still here"

Client: The AIDS Council of South Australia (2011)

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CINEMÂCHÉ BRANDING

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Red Fox Films branding

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Caligula

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Caligula poster design

Balgedie House & Lodge

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Motor Branding

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Michael Allen Productions

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Capricorn Film Festival

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Cat Fish

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The Rift Cover Art

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Ex Machina logo

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Clear Capture Audio Branding

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Little Shop of Horrors

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Curiosities

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Black Beacon

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Tarkovsky poster suite

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The Conspirators

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Location Audio Logo

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Smoked Ham

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The Rift Issue 4 cover

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Capricorn Film Festival

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Treasury 1860

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The White House Murder Case

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Amadeus

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OUTS1DERS Logo Design

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The Rift issue 3

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Season Playbill

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Red Phoenix Theatre Branding

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Personal Branding

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Before the Party

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Zentrifues

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Independent Theatre Branding

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Orphans

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Orphans Poster

The Rift Cover Issue 2

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Hamlet

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Two Brothers

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Two Brothers

True Blue

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Bracken Moor

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Bracken Moor poster

How to Drink Wine like a Wanker

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How to Drink Wine like a Wanker

Long Day's Journey into Night

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Don Parties On

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Exposing Edith Branding

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The Dead Move Fast

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The Dead Move Fast

Crime and Punishment

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Crime and Punishment

Cry God For Harry!

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Brown Fox Looks at Thing

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Titus Andronicus

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Peter & Alice

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Peter and Alice poster

Alley Cat

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Minimals

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Sydney Funnel Web

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Sydney Funnel Web Spider

The Great Gatsby

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Anxiety Apple

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American Razor

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Monty

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Angst Cat

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Angst Cat

Beatle John

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John Lennon

Leed Engineering

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Oscar's Law - 3d interior

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The One Day of the Year

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set design Caesar and Cleopatra

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Caesar and Cleopatra set design

The Magnificent Ambersons

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The Magnificent Ambersons

Vitruvian Woman

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The Matchmaker

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To Kill a Mockingbird

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World Aids Day

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Illumabet

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