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Commissioned by Republik I was asked to create the Queens Wharf brand identity. After researching and understanding the cultural, historical and physical aspects of Queens Wharf I created 6 A1 boards with a suggested design and walked the client through the design process. Visuals where also created to illustrate how the brand might roll out over different applications.

Energi is advertising agency specializing in Brand, Activation & Retail. They required a design that would work within an existing CMS frame work and showcase the agency and their work. The design needed to work over several devices including laptops, ipads & iphones.

Bagabond was created by two friends and spawned around the idea of LOVE. The name spoke for itself and led to a simple logo mark. All the t - shirts where designed around the theme of Love which rolled out on to promotional postcards.

MTicket is a Mobile ticketing company whereby customers can order, pay for, obtain and validate tickets from any location by using a mobile phone.

NZFASHION.COM was created by Daniel Drupsteen as a platform for the New Zealand fashion industry to help New Zealand designers gain exposure locally and internationally. Along with the identity we created a website and an iphone application.

We created an identity for Mark Barber (photographer) that was stripped back and minimal. We believed that Mark's photos needed to be at the forefront of this site which in turn led us to a simple design on and off screen.

The word divine relates to divinity, simplicity, holiness and the heavens. The simplicity of the logo helps to emphasize the purity of the object and it's contents. The bottle's shape draws directly from nature with the inside form imitating the shape of a falling rain drop. Glasses were also created by simply slicing the bottle in half. All of the informational copy was placed on the side of the bottle so when viewed from the front, disappears from view. A bottle was designed for both the Chinese and New Zealand markets.

Woodhams Meikle and Zhan are one of New Zealand's biggest architectural practices specialising in large scale commercial projects. They wanted a book that could operate as a portfolio and at the same time exist as a coffee table book.

Ark was asked to create a straight talking, no nonsense identity for a 100% natural remedy product that is used for healing sporting injuries. Fix was a start up company and challenger brand that needed to compete with much bigger brands on a limited budget.

Player One is a music and sound design studio that specialises in music for television and film . Ark created an image to represent sound that was then used to create the identity.

The above images are a collection of work created for Artspace and the Gus Fisher gallery. Both exhibitions where curated by Emma Bugden

The Art & Industry Biennial Trust had funded a permanent public artwork for Chistchurch city as part of the 2008 Scape Christchurch Biennial. This catalogue gave a brief view into the artwork and the artist.

Massey University needed an image and postcard designed for their new Integrated Design course. The course focuses on creativity and the relationship between two and three dimensional design.

Business cards where created for Projector media an advertising agency specialising in marketing, communications and online advertising. The design draws directly from the name and emulates a piece of projector film. They were screen printed onto plastic.

Interactive Pulse is a forward thinking development company specialising in large scale websites and applications for the iphone and ipad.

A small consultancy firm that required a logo and business cards.

Fletcher Systems specialises in the design of contemporary furniture and product design. The logo is constructed of triangles which mimic the modular idea expressed in some of their designs.

The above images where self promotional pieces designed for a bit of New Year cheer.

The images above are posters that were created for two exhibitions held at Te Tuhi Centre For The Arts curated by Stephen Cleland.

This postcard was designed as part of a large petition for the New Zealand 'MakePovertyHistory' campaign. A large version was also created for Bob Geldof to sign publicly infront of the media to help raise public and government awareness.

AMPED is a multidisciplinary end-of-year creative showcase of staff and student work from The University of Auckland’s National Institute of Creative Arts and Industries. The programme of events covers a broad spectrum of exhibitions, performances and presentations from Architecture, Planning and Urban Design, Dance Studies, Fine Art, Music and Sound and the Centre for New Zealand Art Research and Discovery.

Commissioned by Projector Media, Ark Creative designed a series of microsites for grabaseat to engage with the public and help build the grabaseat brand.

The Grabaseat billboard site was created to utilise crowdsourcing - allowing the public to write and generate their own billboards within the site. We received over 20,000 entries.

Working alongside projector media Ark Creative has produced billboards, regional press ads, websites, airport banners, promotional material, business cards, motorhome and plane graphics for grabaseat. The above is a small selection of what was produced.

Texas Radio is a local boutique streetwear store in Auckland. They required a new identity that was fresh, current and related to street culture.

Scientext offer writing and editing services in and around the field of environmental science. Ark was commisioned to create an indentity and website.