The Freshness Served Piping Hot…

3 Years On…

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Being a designer is awesome. You’re either scrambling ideas together in your sketchbook, meeting and learning about new people, or as many of us are familiar with — glued in front of an iMac curving paths or kerning type. For me this has been really rewarding — between this and my photography, I haven’t really looked back.

In 2008, there was a group of close friends / designers / photographers that graduated alongside me, and haven’t really kept up with them as much as I could have. So over the last couple of months, I made an effort to get in touch with a few of them, and see if these talented people would spill a little about what they’ve been up to, and share their successes. Here’s what they had to say…

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Bishopdale Skate Jam Poster

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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!


2011 Canterbury Skate Regionals

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Cade Wilson-Russ » Noseblunt
Cade Wilson-Russ » Noseblunt

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.

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Backyard Sessions

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Jordan McStay » Varial heel fakie
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…

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Gracing The Walls

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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.

Illreceived Poster (2006) by Andy Brown

Illreceived Poster (2006) by Andy Brown


Sweat the Small Stuff poster (2011) by Alonzo Felix

Sweat the Small Stuff poster (2011) by Alonzo Felix

Got something cool on your walls you want to share? Comment below and pop a link in.

Cheers.


Ruapuna 24

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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.