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Client: Trudie Millar, Fashion Stylist, Wanaka Brief: To create a fun, vibrant and professional logo that reflected Trudie's personality. Wanaka stylist Trudie Millar's business has many parts - she does  Style Consultations, Wardrobe Audits, Colour Consultations, Seasonal Edits and Make Overs.  When we were discussing the requirements of her new logo the key words were: - Colour - Fun - Creative - Exciting - Vintage/60s Trudie loves colour, so we played with a few options and decided upon various shades of purple, the colour gra..

Client: Wanaka New Life Church Brief: To create a modern, functional and appealing new website for Wanaka New Life Church. Wanaka New Life Church has had a physical presence in Wanaka for over 40 years, and now needed an online presence to serve multiple audiences; the church, the community and the large proportion of visitors that come to the church while on holiday in Wanaka. The website needed to look modern and appealing, have easy to access information about service times and events, and also give a good overview of the Church leadership a..

Facebook has become one of the cheapest and most effective way for businesses, large and small, to promote themselves and development engagement with their customers. There is something very special about people allowing you to communicate with them in a place where they are engaging socially with friends, discovering new things and sharing their lives. The first key to running an interesting & effective Facebook page for your business is understanding how Facebook works from a user’s point of view. If you are new to Facebook, spend s..

Client: Allerton Recruitment, Auckland. Brief: To refresh an existing website to give it a more modern look, while also increasing functionality and integrating the website with a new recruitement software tool. Allerton Recruitment had recently changed providers for their recruitment software. This meant that the design of the website had needed to be changed to accomodate the new software, and the layout & content needed to be changed. They approached us and we helped them to create a modern website integrating the new software, and upgra..

Client: White Ink Communications, for the Queenstown Summer Concert Brief: To create a poster and supporting advertising materials to promote a music concert featuring Jody Direen, James Reid (of The Feelers fame) and The Topp Twins.  The concert promoters needed a poster that would appeal to a family/mainstream audience, for a mixed genre concert (a mix of Country/Pop, Rock and pure Country). The tone needed to be warm, fun and inclusive for an intimate outdoor Summer concert. While the design was left up to me, the promoter sug..

Client: Fusion Natural Health Clinic, Wanaka, Otago Brief: To create a trifold brochure to promote the clinic, as well as a new range of Wellness Packages that were being launched into the market. Colours and imagery were to be taken from the logo (mint green, leaf icon). Working with a PR agency Ellipsis Creative , we created this trifold brochure for Wanaka based Naturopath, Herbalist & Nutritionist Nikki Sumner. She wanted a bright, fresh new brochure that she would be able to give new and potential clients. The background was kept large..

Client: Jody Direen, Musician, Wanaka Brief: To design and build a website and online shop to showcase Jody Direen as a musician, as well as sell music and merchandise and promote tour dates. Jody needed a modern, functional and fully responsive website to be able to easily manage her online presence, as well as market her music, concert tours and merchandise. We started by creating a landing page while we built the website, that featured the most recent video single, a facebook feed for dynamic content and a newsletter sign up.  The ..

Client: Jody Direen, Musician, Wanaka Brief: To create an album cover and CD artwork for her new album Breaks Out. Jody needed to quickly turn around the design of the cover art for her album Breaks Out, to have it ready for sale on her Summer 2014/2015 concert tour.   We used images featuring a luxurious, textural background with silver and gold tones, and reflected these in the design; using her logo in black, with a gold glitter highlight, and choosing a bold, brush stroke style font for the name of the album. The overall feel of t..

Client: BizFlicks, Auckland Brief: To design and build a new, modern website that would effectively portray the company's attributes of professionalism, reliabilty and high quality video production services. BizFlicks is part of The Flicks Ltd and is a video production company specializing with online videos. They are able to produce any type of video for an organisation's product or service, such as Business Profiles, Testimonies/ Case Studies, Training/Educational, Events or they can customise a unique video to a client's individual needs. Th..

Client: Fika Swedish Coffee Break, Wanaka Brief: To create a new logo for a company rebrand (from Nordavia to Fika) that had a simple black and white colour scheme, with a bold look. Wanaka specialist bakeshop Fika wanted a logo that would represent a strong brand to the market place for their bakeshop, as well as their high-end wholesale biscuit market.  Called Fika (a concept in Swedish culture which translates to mean "to drink coffee", often accompanied with pastries or sandwiches) we needed to not only portray the compa..