3 Years On…
Skate Skool Events Flyer

Here’s a recent design for Cheapskates Skate Skool’s 2011/12 event schedule.
Bishopdale Skate Jam Poster

We’ve been working hard lately on a few skate event posters for Cheapskates Skate Skool, and utilising some of the photography we’ve captured with their Grom of the month section. Here’s a design that we’re pretty pleased with featuring Vinnie Bolt ripping up a frontside air for us. Find out more about the Bishopdale Skate Jam here. T’will be good!
Teen Aid Logo

Over the past few years I’ve been working closely with one of our awesome clients TriEx to establish their branding and identity. As they are expanding their scope a pretty cool initiative has been seeded which we developed a logo for.
It’s called Teen Aid — an initiative for young people to gain first aid skills. TriEx worked alongside a group of high school students to foster ideas of how first aid skills to that age group would be beneficial and found the response very positive. Things like looking after elderly people, babysitting, and knowing what to do in an emergency situation were a few of the ideas covered.
The logo design process was one that is very typical of an Enquire logo, as my Professional Practice tutor from design school said “You have to go to Mutant Insane and look back at you concepts to see where the real solution lies”. We may not have so ‘Mutant Insane’ as some other projects, but there where definitely a good number of concepts and ideas thrown around before coming back to the final design.
The iconic first aid cross was used as this immediately tells the viewer what Teen Aid is about, and encapsulating this into a speech bubble captures the process of communicating first aid. Finished off with dynamic use of Jos Buivenga’s Museo typeface and we created a modern, simple, eye-catching logo.
If you’d like to learn more about Teen Aid, follow them of Facebook here.

2011 Canterbury Skate Regionals
An awesome display of young skaters where hucking things up down at the Regionals last weekend. Seriously I think this is the largest volume of entrants in the 13 and under I’ve seen, and the majority of them skated mind-blowingly well.
Read on to see a few pics from the day. To see even more head over to the Skate Skool News Page.
Backyard Sessions

Jordan McStay » Varial heel fakie
A couple of weeks ago I trekked over to Zak Mclean’s place for a night shoot on his swish new backyard miniramp. Jordan McStay and Greymouth’s Izaak Cavert were there to help rip it up under the limited light from a van’s headlights on one end, and a trusty Dolphin torch on the other. Here’s what we got…
Gracing The Walls
Over this week I’ve finally had the chance to fire a couple of design pieces up on the bare office walls, both old and new. One is an early gig poster I designed about 5 years ago for our punk rock band Illreceived. A2 in size, and hand screenprinted (3 colours) by Jared Davidson. I don’t think the colour would fade on this thing in 100 years!
The other poster I purchased from New York designer Alonzo Felix. I love the message and the typographic treatment, and the detail is fantastic. It too is a screenprint (2 colour) and 18″x 24″ in size.
Got something cool on your walls you want to share? Comment below and pop a link in.
Cheers.
Grom Of The Month Update
As the months roll on, so does Cheapskates Skate Skool’s Grom of the Month feature. Our involvement has been to get a few tricks captured through the lens of these young (and very talented) guys. For August we had Vinnie Bolt (above), and last month we had Dan Kelcher (below).
See more images over at the Skate Skool website.
Ruapuna 24
Yesterday was fun. In the middle of a hectic weekend run around we finally got out to the Ruapuna 24 being held out at the Powerbuilt Ruapuna Speedway. No cars though… just keen people braving the bitter southerly on skateboards, rollerskates, and inline skates, battling out a distance challenge. I got out there and chugged a lame 4.3kms on my shortboard with my daughter in close tow, but some of these guys were getting some pretty high kms — Troy Bilbrough put in 343 of them — which is basically from Christchurch to Picton on a skateboard!
Keep an eye on the Skate Further website for updates.
Canterbury Skate Regionals Poster
I’ve always been involved with the photography in recent years for this poster, but this year we got to design it too! More details about the event here.









