The multicolumn layout makes for an easy read and a flexible format that packs in plenty of information per page. Photography, illustration and other graphics make the newsletter more visually appealing and encouraging people to either dip into the articles that interest them first or read the newsletter from end to end.
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The Southern DC3 brief was for a quality “retro” design to makeover AMY with the minimum of effort and cost while delivering the maximum power of visual communication to my client’s business.
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Patron Richie McCaw chats with Dave Horsburgh on the cover of The Southern DC3 Trust “Help us reach for the sky” fundraising prospectus I designed and published in 2006–7.
My role was as Creative Director of the Trust and Mac operator, providing all creative services, photography and the desktop publishing of all print collateral. This provision of goods, branding and brand management services was under the auspices of Pionair Adventures for whom I was in-house Creative Designer at the time.
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The Tru-Line Civil rebrand’s good-looking corporate stationery system works hard and adapts easily. The design conforms to the world’s most popular business look. It is corporate—uncluttered, clean and impressive, while the dynamic illustrated logo sends a powerful message.
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The website Case Studies are published from pdfs for inclusion in tender bid documents as required. The case studies are focussed on TruLine Civil’s methodologies as applied to specific contracts. Between 2008–11 this involved documentary location photography of completed projects from Punakaiki to Arthurs Pass. Since 2011 the project manager shifted up the priority going forward, shooting TruLine’s workplace methodologies in progress at selected works in progress. This open-ended project has progressively provided a high quality image library that covers the gamut of TruLine’s civil engineering strengths and capabilities.
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A set of key personnel and management team CV documents have been prepared for the purposes of adding to tender bid documents in the appendices. They may also be integrated into the bid document proper depending on the specifications set out in the client request for information. The key personnel custom Word document template allows for the individual CVs to be recombined and re-ordered by the client on an ad-hoc basis then published in-house to suit the specific requirements of each tender bid.
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To formulate impressive documentation for Tru-Line Civil within tight timeframes a collection of resource documents has been developed to compliment the Case Studies. They are created using a custom Word document template and included with TruLine’s tender bid documents as required, along with relevant case study documents and key personnel CVs.
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A tight budget means doing more with less so this dual purpose business card brochure needed to show a range of kinetic works. Thinking of my paper as a screen or a stage I laid out a montage onto eighteen small panels that unfold into an informative, a4 size flier.
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Phil Price is a very successful New Zealand sculptor based in Melbourne and Christchurch who has achieved international renown for his mesmerising wind-activated kinetic works. A successful web design makeover outcome demanded a strong, clear, consistent focus so that all elements ’speak’ in a single voice that engages Phil’s audience.
For me, graphic design, at its best, tells a visual story with the same excitement, pacing and dynamics of a great movie, play, or musical composition, it evokes strong emotion.
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Auto Restorations has a story to tell. This capabilities and profile brochure was designed with people in mind who will have heard about Auto Restorations by other means, such as work of mouth, the core of the brochure design, as with the website redesign is for people to see the sort of things that Auto Restorations do, the sort of company that they are. The idea is to give them the impression that Auto Restorations are people worth their while to deal with. So the main purpose, as with the website is to; showcase their work, give an impression of what the company is like, give the impression they are reliable and work to the highest achievable international standards.
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Two of my legacy clients merged to form TruLine Civil in 2011, I branded the merged civil engineering firm and developed a market positioning strategy in collaboration with the projects manager. To set TruLine apart from the crowd and influence the way their target audience perceives them we chose to emphasise the distinguishing feature of the firm, their methodology for completing civil works. Civil works methodology is a suitcase term, which when unpacked is the TruLine system of methods, this goes to depth and breadth of staff education, their training and hands-on experience, problem-solving skills, use of good judgement, creative thinking, and the ace up their sleeve, the firm’s exemplary level of employee retention. By creating their first website around that core of Civil Engineering case studies, including documentary photography, the meaning behind the brand’s mission “Excellence in Infrastucture” is shown to be backed-up by a reputation and ranking in the industry that is earned.
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