I earmarked Ptarmak design studio in Austin a while back to do a post on because, aside from having solid portfolio of branding projects, they have a real flair for presenting their work and an excellent HTML site to top it all off.

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NotJones.com is the web portfolio of UK Graphic designer Aled Williams and he’s also not half bad.

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Thought I’d put in a plug for a local design studio for a change.

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I’ve been living in illustrator for the last couple of weeks and I thought I’d take a break from grids and pen tools to mention a two of my favourite minimalist illustrators starting with UK artist Robert Hanson.

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The final printed business cards for sound and lighting technician Jacob Battista.

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These business cards were made for Thomas Fairman, a Forest Scientist from the University of Melbourne working on land carbon reserves in Victoria.

The design was done by yours truly with printing by West-Australian company Saltprint. They offer a range of 100% recycled paper stock which use a mix of totally chlorine-free and elemental chlorine-free pulp fibers and part of their commitment to the environment includes planting one native tree for every order to offset the carbon cost of the printing. They also use renewable energy sources like wind and hydro for most (92%)of their power requirements.

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I updated my print folio with this promo poster for ‘Lens Flair’- a fund raising event I helped organise on behalf of latenitefilms.com.

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Here are a few initial proofs for a logotype for sound and lighting technician Jacob Battista.

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Conventional commercial printing companies produce waste by-products in a number of ways. Inks may contain metallic pigments including cadmium, barium and copper and petroleum based solvents are used to separate chemicals and clean the machinery. Furthermore, large-scale commercial printers release VOCs (volatile organic compounds) into the air during printing alongside large amounts of waste water.

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I thought I’d kick things off by showing the design process for the Riddip logo and branding for the business cards. I wanted to create something simple, monochrome that incorporated my initials RDP. The black and white colour scheme is a reference to my first photographic work and the logo itself represents the tools of the trade; a button or a lens or a stack of blank CDs.

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