Logotype for myspace band Grey Ghosts.








Artwork for upcoming shows.

Identity for Corinna Wilmshurst, a super talented Sydney based
freelance hair and make up artist.




Just a l'il type play with the name of a band I've been listening to a hell of a lot lately, Yura Yura Teikoku. This font is almost near completion, soon I hope it will be fully workable, and maybe even downloadable.





A couple of cool things I saw in Sydney.

Courtney Chavanell is a music and fashion photographer
from Austin, Texas.

Her work has been published in numerous music culture and
fashion magazines such as Spin, Vice, XLR8R and Under The Radar.

In 2007 she approached me to create a fresh and cool looking
logotype and website.

The Lion Foundation. Logo for New Zealand charitable trust The Lion Foundation. Designed while I was freelancing at Curious.






Supply Entrance Wall. This wall was quite a mission, the maze actually works, there are numerous entry points but only six or so are successful. The wall is about 6 metres wide x 3 metres high. Supply are a young and successful design firm focused on print, interactive, and art direction.



Here's some shadow puppet drawings. I'd like to turn these into limited run silkscreen posters or maybe Tees, who knows.






Steve Damstra from Whirlwind Heat asked me to design a cover
for his new album So It Goes, I also made one for his album
Trees & Mountains. Both these albums are available for free from
his myspace or from Last.FM

I was really, really excited at the chance of doing this as I'm a huge
fan of Whirlwind Heat, and Steve Damstra's solo stuff is great too!






Check out The Odd Cast, a great audio podcast of alternative and slightly left of centre music. There is also an extensive back catalogue of previous shows available to listen to and download for free.




CSS are coming to these shores again real soon with support from Glass Candy, here's the poster.




Front and back cover illustration for The Link Agency diary, 2008.


As Spinal Tap's doucumentary maker Marti de Bergi says "...Anyway, enough of my yakking, let's boogie"

I thought I should take the opportunity to document this discovered signage before it vanished forever. The plaster was removed to reveal these beautiful slices of history up on Karangahape Rd. The walls are now plastered over with newer graphics, those of businesses MTV and Nickleodeon.

Soap, a library to scale, Weird War and nightmare steak.


Pages submitted to New York/Auckland art publication Soap.





Artist’s publication for Ann Shelton’s a library to scale Exhibition.





In 2006 Ann Shelton asked me to produce a publication for
her exhibition a library to scale.

‘A library to scale focuses on the obsessive documenting of
local events by Frederick B. Butler, who for sixty years used
thousands of old hardcover novels to create scrapbooks for
newspaper clippings about Taranaki history and life’.*

It was this fascination of collection that inspired the single
sheet essay and postcard set to accompany Shelton’s exhibition.

The publication consisted of a fifteen page single colour loose
leaf essay and twenty six full colour postcards. Presented in a
custom die envelope with a single pantone inner and black
matte foil outer.

*Gavin Hipkins and Ann Shelton at Starkwhite,
5 Jul 2006 – 29 Jul 2006.
By John Hurrell 12 Jul 2006. www.artbash.co.nz


Illustration printed in issue 36 of Arkitip magazine for their
Sound in Print page. The song chosen was Mental Poisoning
by Weird War.





A dumb little drawing which I quite like.

Posters I created for upcoming gigs and events.

RATATAT





CSS – Cansei de Ser Sexy ("Tired of Being Sexy")

Arnhem, Rotterdam, Berlin, Wein et Toulon.

Some photos from my travels to Europe in Summer '06

Trying to raise funds for Europe I had a mini sale.









Credits for production television company Cream TV's Bodyguards. This never went ahead, I think the show was canned, anyway I am still attached to these.





Alas this never eventuated as the venue closed down three days prior to the show.