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Three color tiger illustration printed with acrillic from a wood cut block on a large press. Production by me, original illstration by someone else. Search tiger on google images to find the originalCrazy black tree. Ink etched illustration - scratched out of OHP paper and printed with oil based inks on various papersTree illustration close up - Ink etchingU&I poetic poster design from a collaboration with Victoria University. Poem by Jess Mackenzie. Photo from Wellington City. A1 sizetypography close-up of poster - helvetica nue used, referencing the font's large use in commercial and c orporate design. Created by taking a photo of 3D leters placed on a curved A4 phototypographic poster close upTypographic flow poster closeup - cochin italic used for its small x-height19th century japanese haiku poster close up - Frutiger used for its simple, clear formModernist anti oil typographic booklet using Frutiger. The three colors yellows, red and green play a large symbolic role through the bookletClose up of typographic booklet. The booklet is revolving and continuos as it examines BP's contradictory postive and negative sides of it's evironmental imapact. Old mans face closeup - acrillic painted illustrationExperimental minimalist packaging concept for New Zealand post. Plain re-usable box prevides a clean andd easy to look at package and addresses environmental and sustainable issues. This is a close up of Frutiger type family used on the packaing to create a clear and contemporary solution. This label address issues of information overload. By reducing the amount of unessisary information we are left with a purely functional and uncluttered productA packaging design and branding concept for choice terrific tea co. a company that specialised in green teas. The idea behind this packaging was to demonstrate the companies quirky and bold brand values. The orange catches your eye through mimicing the way that light hits the bottle, its warm and inviting, it wants you to pick it up and enjoy it. The typography is hand crafted to be joyous and upbeatRalph Hotere book design. Although Hotere is a contemporary artist I chose the classic combination two justified colums with the beautiful and highly legible Adobe Jenson pro used for the book's copy text. The traditional use of typography provides a credibility to the book. I juxtaposed Jenson with a more contemporary use of Helvetica Neu for titles and capter openingsBooklet design with the intention of describing the proccess of design. Cardboard cutout people photoshoot was created by placing tiny little people and photographing them on newtown golf course in Wellington on a windy day, yikes. Cant remember what font was usedAnimal illustration series featuring four print.. Three color wood cut printed via a press on premium paper. This image features suprised Adrian the Ocotopus floating in a landscape rather than portrait format.Animal number 3 is depresed Alex the Elephant. He fairly overweight, run down and not too happy with life. Poor chap!Close up of miss-printed Alex wood cut. The miss printed style gives it a sweet, obviously not digital finnish.Image from a series of anti technology photos. Photographed in WellingtonDigital computer illustrated poster about dreams.Dreams close up of typography and a paragraph written by me - Unknown fontTrying to sell a despised font to designers - ITC Garamond, describing it as an aquired taste. Interesting and difficult to design fold down poster + booklet format was usedA page from the ITC Garamond booklet showing the fonts italic variant type characters as if they were insect or animal specimens or in this case, snails.ITC Garamond in all its glory close up in an elegant fashion. This time using a tradition type catalog approachITC Garamond snail booklet illustration commenting on ITC Garamond's large x-height. The opposite page talked about typeface features. The whole project takes on a very old and tattered look to get it an authentic feeling withaa letter press feelMore graphic design to come in the future right here from Tim Donaldson. Contact me for some possibly affordable, maybe cheap, but really high quality design. I'll probably charge you a small fortune actually. But who knows, I'm still studying and need the money so give me an email and maybe we can broker a great deal. I am Based in both Tauranga and Wellington, New Zealand - depending on what part of year it is when you read this.

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