Vintage Video Effect Without Photoshop

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To achieve this stunning look:

  1. Buy a cheap Canon point and shoot with duty free vouchers.
  2. Use the camera trouble free for 4 years.
  3. Make sure you subject it to the odd bit of rough and tumble to season it. A couple of drops onto concrete or red wine spill should do it.
  4. Set kids up with 90’s dance cd’s and a bag of Rashuns. Turn the lights out and the flash on.

Phoenix Foundation Design contest

Pretty happy to get an email From Samuel Flynn Scott of The Phoenix Foundation to say they had chosen my design to be used on their t-shirts and tea towels for their upcoming NZ and European tours. The brief was the word ‘ buffalo’ and essentially the scope was as wide as one could ask for. I immediately just had this vision of a buffalo type dude in a sharp suit riding a little grannie bike down to the corner store. Got the pencils out and came up with this guy.
What I have heard of the new album sounds awesome, warm pyschedelic fuzz of the finest calibre.

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Coffee

If you are a design student with your portfolio reading this and you are in our neighbourhood feel free to buy us a coffee from
Toasted Espresso who are on High St below us (two triple flat whites please) and knock on our door using the password ‘blahblahblah’. They make great coffee and we are happy to chat with you and give feedback in return
for a decent coffee though you must use the password. No password=no entry.

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Greg’s Desk

gregs_deskThis is my workspace, have started chucking illustrations up around it so its not to lonely in the evenings.
There is a nice Jamie McLellan drawing up there, it’s the black one with intriguing white line art. Thanks Jamie,
I love getting artwork, nothing is more satisfying to purchase or be given.

The Dual 21 km visor special edition

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So I am running the 21km dual half marathon this coming Sat over Rangitoto… God help me!
Spent my lunch break hunting in this autumn environment for a sun visor. No not a hat,
They are two very different things. Men wear hats, grandmothers wear sun visors.

My head gets very hot when I run and I am nearing retirement so I figured it was time
to get a sun visor. After an hour trying everywhere the only one I could find was this splendid
Warehouse number with flames which I have vivid’d out. Dont want other runners thinking I am
cocky. So watch out for me on the road and if you see me me lying on the ground
please pick me up.

New Site With Blog!

Yeah OK so we know it’s hardly original and it’s kinda cheating putting all our old news on here but hey, this way we can keep all you lucky readers more up to date.

Check back here whenever you can pry yourselves from facebook and we might have something interesting to show you.
A picture of an obese cat possibly or a particularly nice bookmark we’ve found.

In the meantime, here’s a video all leaders of western nations and climate change naysayers should be forced to watch:

 

NZ Music Month

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It’s been a strange last couple of months with the recession upon the world and all, though it has to be said, we’re ticking along as usual with some nice creative projects which will be showcased very shortly.

Until then here’s a batch of limited edition tees we created in conjunction with Hallensteins for NZ Music Month 09.

They are in store now… go buy one and make us and yourself look good.

We’ve Moved!

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We moved into our new studio at the start of the month after bit of a redecorating marathon. With the new locale on High Street we now have a coffee budget and a meeting area so don’t be shy, drop on in for a beer or a brief (or a brief beer).

1976 in ProDesign

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ProDesign got the scoop on our C4 graphics in issue 94, recently.

Greg / 1976 profiled on Movement Magazine’s website

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Go to www.movementmag.com and click on the Canvas tab.