CINEMÂCHÉ is a team of award-winning Adelaide filmmakers who share the goal of making motion pictures that are collaborative, immersive and atmospheric. They create sensory experiences that are powered by layered and lavish palettes, contrasting textures and embellished colours.
The logo I designed as part of their corporate branding is a fusion of digital noise and the stylised palette of a typically vibrant papier mâché Piñata. This allowed for a rich pattern application across stationery and digital brand collateral.
deliverables: identity and logo suite, style guide, specialty business cards, letterhead, comps slip, pull-up banner
Client: CINEMÂCHÉ (2015)
Tags: Branding
Brand and logo design for Beer No Evil, a Glenelg brewery offering something a little bit dangerous and a little bit fun. The logotype is grungy and energetic, reflecting the death metal inspirations for the brand, but is harmonised by a series of less threatening ‘Beerspawn’, a little army of minimalist demons, each given stewardship over a different beer. Each beer is also assigned a unique and vibrant flat colour, concentrating their separate identities and their visibility on the shelf.
Deliverables: branding and logo design, digital style guide, beer can labels, tap decals, t-shirt design, business card, poster artwork
Client: Beer No Evil (2019)
www.beernoevil.com.au
Tags: Branding, Product, Illustration
Palindrome logo design and cover art for Jeremy Renner's 2024 album 'Love and Titanium' (developed in collaboration with Don Handfield and Jeremy Renner's team).
Client: Jeremy Renner (2024)
Tags: Branding
Red Fox Films is a boutique Adelaide film and video design studio. Their bespoke and hand-made approach to film-making is reflected in their corporate branding, a watercolour fox, curiously engaging with a hovering insect.
While the logo mark is unusually detailed and complex, it was essential to convey the degree of personality and affection that Red Fox Films wanted to communicate to their clients. The logo lends itself warmly to micro-animations that enhance its presence on digital platforms.
Deliverables: logo and branding, letterhead, animation, emboss stamp, sticker, comps slip, email signature, website, business card, usb stick, plain signage, illuminated signage
Client: Red Fox Films (2015)
Tags: Branding, Web, Illustration, Motion
Poster and logo design for The Party during its 2023 Adelaide Fringe Festival season at The Garden.
Client: Strut & Fret (2022)
Tags: Branding, Campaign Design
Logo design and branding for Don Handfield's production company MOTOR.
The identity draws upon vintage car logos and mechanical/corporate sci-fi, in a simple lightning bolt "M".
deliverables: branding, logo suite and style guide
Client: Don Handfield (2017)
www.motor.ink
Tags: Branding
Identity design for South Australian finance broker Navigate Asset Finance. The brand mark is a tilted block ‘N’ subdivided along its longest edge to produce a basic maze.
Deliverables: logo and branding, letterhead, email signature, business card, client folder
Client: Navigate Asset Finance (April 2021)
navigateassetfinance.com.au
Tags: Branding
Publication design for Green Industries SA’s Strategic Plan 2017-2022, including cover design.
Client: Green Industries SA (2017)
Tags: Cover Art, Publication Design
Poster design for Red Phoenix Theatre's Caligula - a tilted laurel wreath combined with the roaring face of the mad emperor, and violent skewers replacing what would have been gentle leaves.
deliverables: poster, DL, promotional collateral and advertisements
Client: Red Phoenix Theatre (April 2018)
Tags: Cover Art
Poster design for documentary The Piccadilly - Restoring Her Former Glory.
Client: Scarlett Media (2023)
Tags: Cover Art
Title and poster design for Limbo The Return
Client: Strut & Fret (2023)
Tags: Branding, Campaign Design
Cover designs for comic book The Rift (issues 1-4) including the trade paperback
presented by Jeremy Renner
written by Don Handfield and Richard Rayner
published by Red 5 Comics
Deliverables: front & back covers, credits page
Client: The Combine/Motor (January-April 2017)
Tags: Cover Art
Alternative movie poster for Marc Fehse's genre-splice "Sky Sharks": undead Nazis, flying sharks, etc. The poster is a basic tongue-in-cheek inversion of the JAWS poster, given that these undead nazi sharks are...well...in the sky.
Client: Benfeghoul/Marctropolis (2019)
Tags: Cover Art
Logo design for Thunder Comics (Eternus, The Dark Age, Unikorn, Don’t F with Karen, Kingdom of God)
Deliverables: branding and logo design, digital style guide, comic cover template
Client: Thunder Comics/Don Handfield, Chris Lemole & Tim Zajaros (2021)
Tags: Branding
Poster design for Anton Chekhov’s ‘Seagull’.
Client: Independent Theatre (March 2022)
Tags: Cover Art
Cover art for graphic novel “Unikorn”
written by Don Handfield and Joshua Malkin
Client: Motor (January 2019)
Tags: Cover Art, Product
Brand design for Balgedie House & Lodge, two luxury homes in East Balgedie near Kinross, Scotland.
The icon is a clean, modern glyph, constructed from the property's twin driveway, and embellished with hints of a Celtic glyph. The horizontal stroke of the "B" functions as a main road, from which the two loops fountain out into two individual driveways.
deliverables: logo suite and style guide
Client: Balgedie House & Lodge (2017)
Tags: Branding
Poster design for That Boy, (Adelaide Fringe Festival 2021).
Client: Holden Street Theatres, Martha Lott (January 2021)
Tags: Cover Art
Logo design for Adelaide production company Under the Microscope as part of their 2020 rebrand.
The company’s scientific identity and performance approach is expressed in simple roundel orbited by three electron-like satellites. For the motion component of the brand application, the central mass pulses irregularly, in and out of focus, like a magnification lens aligning itself, or a theatrical lamp undulating its amperage, as the three satellites gentle rotate around it.
Client: Under the Microscope (July 2020)
Tags: Branding, Motion
Poster design for Red Phoenix Theatre’s 2021 production of ‘The Laramie Project’
Client: Red Phoenix Theatre (November 2021)
Holden Street Theatre’s 2020 Adelaide Fringe Guide and campaign collateral.
Deliverables: guide design, venue signage, global templates for performers’ promotion assets (A3, A5, postcard), digital and print advertisements, digital rollout.
Client: Holden Street Theatres (2019)
Tags: Publication Design, Cover Art, Campaign Design
Logo design for Michael Allen, a South Australian experimental theatrical entrepreneur and artistic director, managing a production company (Michael Allen Productions) that delivers both live theatre and live webcast productions to South Australian and international audiences.
His company's logo and branding is a simple, black monogram of M and A, a riff on the Adelaide Hills where is company is based.
deliverables: logo and branding, audio-visual, promotion collateral, business cards, letterheads, html email signature
Client: Michael Allen (2013)
www.michaelallenproductions.com
Tags: Branding
Cover design for David Byrne’s comic Stake Jessamy, including variant blood cover.
Client: David Byrne (October 2020)
Tags: Cover Art
Poster design for Carlotta - I’m not dead yet darlings
Client: Michael Griffiths (July 2019)
Tags: Campaign Design
Poster and title design for Independent Theatre’s 2020 production of Martin Sherman’s ‘Bent’.
Client: Independent Theatre (November 2020)
Tags: Cover Art
Cover designs for Don Handfield and Joshua Malkin’s “The Source” issues 1-4 including variant covers and trade paperback cover design.
Client: Motor/Scout Comics (2018-2020)
Tags: Cover Art, Illustration
Publication design for Green Industries SA’s Adelaide Metropolitan Kerbside Report. The report’s cover depicts a row of all three categories of council-issue waste collection bins, vibrantly representing the report’s core focus. The bin’s shadows of varying lengths then subtly suggest a bar graph, refining the cover’s expression of the report as a performance analysis.
Client: Green Industries SA (April 2019)
Tags: Publication Design, Cover Art
Cover design for The Dark Age (issues #1 -6 and variant covers)
Written by Don Handfield
Client: Motor/Red 5 Comics
(December 2018-September 2019)
www.motor.ink
www.red5comics.com
Tags: Cover Art, Illustration, Branding
The Capital City Committee functions as an intermediary body between the Adelaide City Council and the State Government. It participates in the governance of the City of Adelaide, being primarily concerned with the planning of Adelaide's urban development and growth.
The 2013-2014 annual report takes the vibrant angular geometry of the Capital City Committee's corporate identity, and applies it liberally to each spread to create interesting and unique layouts, and fill the publication with chromatic vibrance.
Client: Capital City Committee (2014) / IS design + digital
Tags: Publication Design
Annual Report design for the South Australian Council of Social Service.
Client: SACOSS (2019)
Tags: Publication Design
Website design for Australian cabaret identity Michael Griffiths and his collection of shows. The website is a simple single-page long-scroll capitalising on the natural visual interest of his promotional artwork. It also uses parallax scrolling to create curiosity and engagement through minimalist animation providing the user with a clean and linear experience.
Tags: Web
Cover design (front and back) and title design for Alex Vickery-Howe’s play ‘Watchlist’, published by Currency Press.
Client: Alex Vickery-Howe (January 2020)
Tags: Cover Art, Branding
Publication design for the South Australian Council of Social Service: SA: the Heaps Unfair State, an evaluation of health inequalities in socio-economically disadvantaged households. The cover design uses a heart rate monitor deteriorating down into the shape of South Australia.
Client: The South Australian Council of Social Service (2020)
Tags: Cover Art, Publication Design
Poster design for Richard Jasek’s documentary Making a Mark, a chronicle of passion and creative trailblazing as a selection of finalists, all aged under 40, vie for the $100,000 Ramsay Art Prize.
Client: SLA Films (May 2018)
Tags: Cover Art
Poster design for Karin Schmid’s 2020 Adelaide Fringe Production “Taboo”, an Austrian show offering a glimpse into the world of a little known but influential Kathe Petersen, a social worker operating in Nazi Germany.
Client: Treasury 1860 (February 2020)
Tags: Cover Art
Logo design for Adelaide-based production company, Scarlett Media Productions. The logo mark uses a simple, consistent shape to construct the studio’s initials, invoking the magazines of a motion picture film camera.
Client: Scarlett Media (2019)
Tags: Branding
Poster design for Adelaide funk jazz rock music band Fretzone
Client: Fretzone (2018)
Tags: Cover Art
Album cover art and branding for Killing 4 Kissinger
Client: Ziggy (August 2017)
Tags: Cover Art, Branding, Illustration
High-volume publication design for Green Industries SA, South Australia's Waste and Resource Recovery Infrastructure Plan. The 138-page planning document required custom maps designed in accordance with their branding, tables and a fluid, flexible layout.
While the information contained within the document is very serious and matter-of-fact, Green Industries SA wanted to ensure it was universally accessible and presented its content in an interesting and engaging way. Photographs were supplied from Green Industries SA, and I worked closely with the department to select suitable and engaging images.
Deliverables: custom map graphics, consultation and publication design for print and digital
Client: Green Industries SA (2017-2018)
Tags: Publication Design
Poster design for Independent Theatre’s 2018 season of Thomas Wolfe’s “Look Homeward, Angel”.
Client: Independent Theatre (2018)
Tags: Cover Art
Poster design for Adelaide Theatre Academy’s 2019 production of Oliver!
Client: Adelaide Theatre Academy (2019)
www.adelaidetheatreacademy.com.au
Tags: Cover Art
Minimal alternate movie posters for Andrei Tarkovsky. The posters have been left untitled. The year of release, cast and glyph should be enough to deduce which is which.
Client: Self (2015)
Tags: Cover Art
Campaign design for the South Australian Council of Social Services (SACOSS), the #HereForSA campaign was launched to recognise the hard work and build pride in the social services workforce, and in the state of South Australia in general, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The campaign’s primary branding feature’s a pixelated heart, within which the shape of South Australia is contained in contrasting tones. The campaign also required templates for social service worker profile images, and for general social media posting of stats, data, quotes and other communications.
In addition to the primary branding, two additional grungy stacked formats were design to be used more freely in brand collateral like social media tile.
Tags: Branding, Campaign Design,
Sunrise Christian School is a co-educational Christian school with 6 campuses in South Australia, including Whyalla and Naracoorte. The school has a dedicated focus on the well-being of its students and the challenges of modern life.
Through business and marketing developer Spark BDM, I was hired to redesign its enrolment forms and fee schedule forms, reducing their complexity and restructuring their information. I also supplied an interactive version of the enrolment form that parents could download from the website and rapidly email back to the school.
Client: Sunrise Christian School (2016) / Spark BDM
Tags: Form Design
Brand design for South Australian performing arts school, Adelaide Theatre Academy. The logo is a block of splayed, hand-cut type, anchored to a vertical stroke, expressing the brand’s core values of authenticity, craftsmanship, energy, movement and possibility, and positioning for a non-gender specific adolescent market. the brand is designed to work principally in both black and white, and in the context of a vibrant feature yellow.
Client: Adelaide Theatre Academy (April 2018)
www.adelaidetheatreacademy.com.au
Tags: Branding
Poster design for Adelaide Theatre Academy's production of Little Shop of Horrors for the 2018 Adelaide Fringe Festival.
deliverables: poster, postcards, print and digital advertising collateral
Client: Adelaide Theatre Academy (2018)
Tags: Cover Art, Illustration
A series of self-devised alterations, amendments, impoverishments and refreshments. The ordinary made weird, the banal made brutal, the familiar made far.
See project detail at Behance
Tags: Other
Poster design for Red Phoenix Theatre’s 2018 season of “The Man From Earth”
Client: Red Phoenix Theatre (2018)
Tags: Cover Art
Logo design for the EPA’s 25th Anniversary. The identity is a minimal typographic design that connects the two characters with a wave, maintaining a connection with the EPA’s branding, and standing alone as a strong, solid mark.
Tags: Branding
Poster design and promotional collateral for Endeavour College’s 2018 school production “Before Upon a Time”, a bright, fun and colourful rock and roll musical spectacular set in the school days of some of history's most beloved fairytale characters.
Deliverables: campaign artwork, poster, DL, digital promotional assets, illustrated colouring book
Client: Endeavour College (2018)
Tags: Cover Art, Illustration
Self-devised poster for William Shakespeare's The Tragedy of Julius Caesar.
Tags: Cover Art, Illustration
Poster design and promotional collateral for Under the Microscope’s touring production of ‘Mental As Everything,’ a theatrical journey through the obsessive and compulsive mind.
Client: Under the Microscope (2019)
Tags: Cover Art, Campaign Design
Identity design for Clear Capture Audio (location sound recording and post production). The logo is a composite of "C" and "A" sculpted around either end of an XLR cable.
deliverables: brand design and logo suite, style guide, website, traditional stationery, html email
Client: Clear Capture Audio (2016)
Tags: Branding, Web
deliverables: branding and logo, style guide, website, html email
Client: Blue Dingo Productions (2018)
www.bluedingoproductions.com.au
Tags: Branding, Web
Interim logo design for production company, now rechristened MOTOR.
Client: Don Handfield (2017)
Tags: Branding
Poster design for Vaclav Havel's The Conspirators
Deliverables: poster design, DL, advertising and promotional collateral
Client: Red Phoenix Theatre (2017)
Tags: Cover Art, Illustration
Branding and key art design for 2016 Capricorn Film Festival, Queensland.
The key art is a pencil illustration of goats horn fused with a strip of film, in the shape of a large capital C. The 2016 festival identity is a simple thick stoke icon representing the tropic of Capricorn as it passes around a tilted earth. Its colour is inherited from the key art.
Deliverables: branding, logo suite and style guide, key art, advertisements, billboards, pull-up banner, social media, standard brand collateral
Client: Capricorn Film Festival (2016)
Tags: Illustration, Campaign Design
Poster design for Peter Goërs' Fringe Show Smoked Ham playing at Holden Street Theatres in the 2017 Adelaide Fringe Festival
Deliverables: poster and postcard
Client: Peter Goërs (February 2017)
Tags: Cover Art
Alternative campaign design for the 2016 Capricorn Film Festival. My actual festival artwork can be found here.
Client: Capricorn Film Festival (2016)
Tags: Cover Art, Campaign Design
Logo and brand development, based upon an original identity by Band.
Treasury 1860 is a newly rejuvenated large-scale inner-city restaurant and bar. Occupying an historic South Australian building, The Treasury Building, it's a little bit of the old and a little bit of the new. It's branding is a simple hybrid of two typefaces (a serif and a sans-serif).
Nestled in the heart of Adelaide's CBD, Treasury 1860 is giving a new lease of life to one of South Australia's most iconic buildings. The full venue refurbishments were completed in November 2017. With a food and drink menu that offers international, inter-state and local guests an up to the minute taste of South Australia, Treasury 1860 aims to introduce patrons to all the wonders that are available in our own backyard.
deliverables: branding, business cards, letterhead, menus, uniforms, signage
Client: Treasury 1860 (2018)
Tags: Branding
Poster design for Jules Feifer's The White House Murder Case.
Deliverables: poster design, DL, advertising and promotional collateral
Client: Red Phoenix Theatre (2017)
Tags: Cover Art, Illustration
Poster design for Independent Theatre's staged play-reading of Peter Shaffer's Amadeus.
Client: Independent Theatre (2017)
Tags: Cover Art, Illustration
Logo design for Don Handfield and Richard Rayner (The Rift, Knightfall). The initial logo is a stark black and white icon of a front-facing astronaut, arms reaching beyond the perimeter of the brand's blackness. The logo preserves its white/black balance and is not inverted when applied to dark backgrounds. For television and other screen contexts, an embellished version of the logo was produced for The History Channel's Knightfall that adds illuminations to the astronauts helmet lamps, and a bold red identifier.
Deliverables: logo suite, style guide
Client: OUTS1DERS (2016)
Tags: Branding, Illustration
Branding and logo design for South Australian theatre company, Red Phoenix Theatre. The icon was inspired by Ancient Greek illustration, because it is home to both the mythical Phoenix and the Theatre.
Deliverables: logo suite, style guide, business cards, letterheads, html email
Client: Red Phoenix Theatre (2016)
Tags: Branding
My personal branding refresh for 2015. The monogram translates along both its vertical and horizontal axes, simultaneously conveying the "N" of Nicholas and the (lowercase) "e" of Ely.
deliverables: logo suite, style guide, business cards, letterhead, invoice and quote templates, html email signature, signage, website, assorted collateral
Tags: Branding, Web, Motion
Poster design for Independent Theatre's production of Before the Party. by Rodney Ackland, based on the short story by Somerset Maugham.
deliverables: poster, promotional and advertising collateral
Client: Independent Theatre (April 2017)
Tags: Cover Art
A self-devised kennel of cosmic scraps and delinquent geometry.
Tags: Other, Motion
Independent Theatre has been enthralling Adelaide audiences with top quality theatre of dramatic significance since 1984. Its work covers the gamut of theatrical writing, from Ancient Greek tragedies to Australian and world premieres of brand new plays.
The brand needed to be simple and visible without being generic, and convey strength, sturdiness and solidarity. The red bolt locks the two sans-serif variants, providing a strong natural contrast against the logo's black and white bent. The logo has been designed to preference white canvases and backgrounds.
The red bolt is the company's main asset that can be deconstructed and applied across the its extended branding.
Deliverables: logo, logo suite, style guide, website, letterhead and A4 template, business cards, pull-up banner
Client: Independent Theatre (2012)
Tags: Branding, Web
Poster and DL design for Red Phoenix Theatre’s 2018 season launch.
Client: Red Phoenix Theatre (2018)
Tags: Campaign Design, Cover Art
Poster for Orphans produced by BlueFruit Theatre
Bakehouse Theatre, Adelaide, South Australia
Deliverables: poster, promotional and advertising collateral
Client: BlueFruit Theatre (November 2013)
Tags: Cover Art
Poster design for Independent Theatre’s 2016 production of Hamlet.
deliverables: poster, DL, advertising and promotional collateral
Client: Independent Theatre (2016)
Tags: Cover Art, Illustration
Various samples of layout and information design for the Adelaide City Council, ensuing a clean and legible hierarchy, making them both on brand with the ACC identity, as well as easy to complete by their residential and non-residential users.
Client: Adelaide City Council (2013-2014) / IS design + digital
Tags: Form Design
Poster design for Adelaide cabaret production 30,000 Notes, including promotion collateral.
Client: Under The Microscope (2018)
Tags: Campaign Design, Product
Poster design for "Bracken Moor" Independent Theatre 2014 Odeon Theatre, Adelaide, South Australia
Deliverables: poster, DL, advertising and promotional collateral
Client: Independent Theatre (2014)
Tags: Cover Art, Illustration
Poster design for Anna Thomas' one woman show How to Drink Wine like a Wanker at Treasury 1860, Adelaide Fringe 2018.
Client: Treasury 1860 (2018)
Tags: Cover Art, Campaign Design, Illustration
The Expert Panel on Planning Reform was a five member body appointed in February 2013 to provide recommendations for a new planning system to Government and Parliament by December 2014.
The three high-volume reports that I designed between 2013 and 2014 detailed the Panel’s discussions, investigations and findings into the South Australian planning system. I branded the reports in a stylisation of the Panel's existing branding (Think Design Deliver), a state-shaped puzzle-piece logo. The front and back covers are an incomplete puzzle, a work in progress, forming the shape of the state of South Australia. The inner document is peppered with stray puzzle pieces, and large block colours borrowed from the logo are used to quickly and easily separate each chapter.
The final report was put to the South Australian government in December 2014, leading to the development of the Planning, Development and Infrastructure Bill, passed by Parliament in early 2016. The new Planning, Development and Infrastructure Act 2016 is currently being implemented by the Department.
Client: Expert Panel on Planning Reform, Department of Planning, Transport and Infrastructure, Government of South Australia (October 2013, July 2014 & October 2014) / IS design + digital
Illustration: Ross Bateup
Tags: Cover Art, Publication Design
Poster design for Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night
Deliverables: poster design, DL, advertising and promotional collateral
Client: Independent Theatre (2015)
Tags: Cover Art
The Adelaide Festival is one of the world’s major live entertainment and arts events, taking place every year in March.
For the 2014 Adelaide Festival's companion app, I was responsible for its front-end refresh and update, including splash screen and home page design, updating all assets for the app build to reflect the 2014 festival brand, and prepare all technical assets and widgets for the developer.
The app provides up-to-date information about the programme, session times, festival artists, a planner, tools to push content to social networks via Facebook, Twitter and email, and interactive maps to help patrons navigate the city of Adelaide and festival venues. The app can also be used to buy tickets.
Client: Adelaide Festival (2014) / IS design+digital
Tags: Other
Poster design for Independent Theatre’s 2017 production Cry God For Harry
Deliverables: poster, DL, advertising collateral
Client: Independent Theatre (2017)
Tags: Cover Art
Poster, trifold brochure and course guide design.
Client: Northern Adelaide Senior College (2014)
Tags: Campaign Design, Form Design
Poster design for Titus Andronicus (Holden Street Theatres August 2016 Adelaide, South Australia)
Deliverables: poster, DL, advertising and promotional collateral
Client: Red Phoenix Theatre (2016)
Tags: Cover Art
Veolia Australia and New Zealand (of French transnational company Veolia Environnement S.A.) is dedicated to service and utility activities traditionally managed by public authorities, including water management, waste management, public transport and energy services.
This brochure was an in-house corporate publication for Veolia Australia and New Zealand staff, providing a snapshot of activities to date including events, news and company updates. The publication adheres to very strict corporate styling and brand guidelines, but the layouts themselves are often flexible, fun exercises in print design and layout optimisation, just like an annual report.
Client: Veolia Australia and New Zealand (2014) / IS design + digital
Tags: Publication Design
Poster for John Logan's Peter & Alice (2014, Space Theatre, Adelaide Festival Centre, South Australia)
Deliverables: poster, DL, large signage, advertising and promotional collateral
Client: Independent Theatre (2014)
photographs by David Wilson
Tags: Cover Art
Veolia Insight (edition 4) is the environmental transnational's shareholder publication for Australia and New Zealand. Each issue documents corporate activities, events, facts and figures of Veolia's environmental solutions across water, waste and energy, and aims to provide insight into key industry issues.
The magazine must adhere to Veolia's branding guidelines, but also affords significant freedoms in layout and image content.
Client: Veolia (2014)
Tags: Publication Design
The Great Gatsby poster design for Independent Theatre's 2015 premiere (The Space, Adelaide Festival Centre, South Australia)
Deliverables: poster, DL, advertising and promotional collateral
Client: Independent Theatre (September 2015)
More detail at Behance
Tags: Cover Art
