The Howard Society

2010-12-05T12:12:00.014+11:00

Cover for I did for Round Trip Mars’ 10th Anniversary cheeky release ‘Invaderism’. Just head over to http://www.roundtripmars.com/ to preview, download and get all 10 tracks on an almost daily basis starting from today leading right up to just before Christmas when the entire album will be available to download on the big day itself, Christmas Day. Brap!

2010-11-09T01:25:00.003+11:00

The Sweet Shop recently commissioned me to produce
a full page illustration for Campaign Brief magazine.

Titleplate for Sam Holst's Meathead.

2009-12-09T12:33:00.003+11:00

Logo for freelance NZ film director Chris Mauger

Australian & NZ Tour posters for Crocodiles

New Metronomy poster for October, 2009 show

More type play. Really pleased with how this came out.

Hoodie design for Right to Write. A South Auckland youth awareness
street jam, organised to coincide with the United Nation's International
Youth Day and NZ's very own National Hoodie Day.

2008-11-11T18:00:00.007+11:00

Logotype for myspace band Grey Ghosts.

Logotype for The Naked And Famous.

Artwork for upcoming shows.

2008-05-29T20:45:00.013+10:00

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.

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.

2008-03-01T12:54:00.010+11:00

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!

2007-01-28T21:51:00.010+11:00

I thought I should take the opportunity to document these slices of history up on Karangahape Rd before it's covered over once more.

Pages for New York based art publication Soap.

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, this was used as a tee shirt design.

Posters for Ratatat and CSS (Cansei De Ser Sexy).

2006-11-19T23:28:00.001+11:00

Arnhem, Rotterdam, Berlin, Wein et Toulon.

Some photos from my travels to Europe in Summer '06

2006-11-19T23:25:00.003+11:00

Personal Fund raiser for trip to Europe.

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.

The venue was closed down three days prior to the show.

2006-10-11T16:05:00.002+10:00

Some pics I took around my block looking at signage and spaces.

Finally I bought a Wacom, and I freakin' love it!