Cashel Street, Pop-up Mall, night photography, post earthquake, illuminated at night by WindsorUrban luminaires and lighting poles. Photo shot for WindsorUrban website redesign and rebrand project.

Photography: Represent your brand with quality imagery

Craft means you care and you know about what you are doing

With any visual communications project first and foremost it is essential to represent your identity or brand with professional imagery. MagentaDot Brands makes every effort to work with our clients so that the standard of their imagery and visual art design is to a high-quality professional standard. In addition to the photography services below;
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Pilot drillshot, the bit enters and passes through the 5m entry pit, Horizontal Directional Drilling, Tru-Line Civil, documentary photography, Parklands West, Christchurch, New Zealand, Gravity Wastewater Replacement, HDD

HDD case study shoot: Parklands

Continuing the ongoing project to photograph the client, TruLine Civil’s range of work methodologies and then follow through by writing them up as Case Studies on their website. I was contracted to document the span of a day on location in Akaroa. The brief is to record a fine-grained record of TLC’s capability in the relatively new Civil Engineering field of “Trenchless Technology”, in this case specifically Horizontal Directional Drilling (HDD). This fast and highly accurate “Horizontal Infrastructure” laying technique is achieved by way of a synchronised deployment of highly skilled and experienced operators, high tech machinery and tight coordination between the project team members. From skilled labourers and drivers up the chain to the site engineer—close communication is maintained between the project team members via modern telecommunications.
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Windsor-Urban web design showcase, three pages from the site displayed in an overlapping composition.

WindsorUrban web project portfolio

Windsor Urban symbol and type logo and trademarkI originated the new company name, designed the new logo and implemented a strong repositioning strategy centred on the distinguishing feature of being the longest standing New Zealand manufacturer of street lighting and urban furniture. Increased sales and growth resulted. The WindsorUrban rebrand and website redesign saw their website to from being buried 12 pages deep when searching via Google, to among the top five. I built the new brand around strong market positioning, to which the large scale e-commerce WindsorUrban catalogue website redesign was key.
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Superior Hummer Limousines Homepage mockup.

Hummer Limos website & brand launch

Superior Hummer Limousines letter replacement logo in two coloursStylish, smooth, glamorous and fun! Superior Hummer Limos was an unforgettable start-up business client entering an already well served market in Christchurch. SHL’s black super-stretch Hummer limousine, the largest of its type in Christchurch, is a real head-turner. The ‘wow!’ factor of the vehicle means that in a sense it launched itself onto the Christchurch market. A strong first impression is good, but a new brand, corporate identity, printed brochure and complementary website forming a comprehensive launch campaign to solidly back up the impressive vehicle is best. The website showcases SHL’s Hummer and their service offerings in attractive and useful ways that have real, long-lasting marketing communications stamina.
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Superior Hummer Limousines, A2 Poster art, display, Promotional design and advertising, digital illustration, photography

Hummer Limos poster: arrive in style

Superior Hummer Limousines letter replacement logo in two colours, black and dark grey on white. "Superior" is set in Javelin a joined-up slab serif italic font inspired 50s automobile badging, positioned above and left of Hummer which is set in all-caps. The first "M" in hummer is replaced by a line drawing of the front elevation of the Hummer. Hummer and Limousines words both set all caps in custom modified Antique Olive Nord font, horizontally extended consistent with Hummer branding. "Superior Hummer" are black, Limousines is dark grey, tucked in below Hummer, aligned right. Brands for New Zealand companies, Christchurch New Zealand.The “Wow!” factor of the stretch Hummer limo, the largest of its type in Christchurch, means that the vehicle is a real head-turner, literally its own best advertisment.

When waiting to pick-up or dropping off clients the unique Super-Stretch Black Hummer Limousine garners a lot of attention from passers-by. In addition to handing out the “Welcome aboard” brochure to prospective clients, the brochure artwork is designed to double as a pair of A2 promotional posters or advertisements.
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Phil Price installing the Tree of Life, Karingal, Melbourne, Australia.

Tree of Life kinetic sculpture installation

Tree of Life documentary photography (December 10–11, 2012. Cranbourne Road exit, Peninsula Link, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia)

The large scale, wind-activated kinetic sculpture “Tree of Life” is a major, permanent Public Artwork designed and made by Phil Price of Christchurch, New Zealand. The work was commissioned by Peninsula Link[1] and installed in December 2012 at the Cranbourne Road exit site, on the Langwarrin exit ramp. This is one of the exit points for access to the McClelland Gallery + Sculpture Park[2].
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Tuwing. Kinetic sculpture by Phil Price.

Phil Price Sculpture portfolio

This gallery of Phil Price Sculpture represents a selection of images form an 8 year ongoing collaboration between myself and Phil Price (Phil Price Sculpture and MagentaDot Brands). The collaboration is a work in progress that aims to progressively document both Phil’s completed kinetic works and selected work methodologies. This selection is of the best heroic photos of the wide range of Phil’s completed outdoor, wind-activated works, large, medium and small scale, from civic sculptures to private commissions in Australia and New Zealand.
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Zephyrometer wind-activated kinetic sculpture gallery

Wellington is located at the southern tip of New Zealand’s North Island and so it sits plum in the middle of the Roaring 40s, in addition the geography of narrow Cook Strait separating North & South islands funnels the strong westerly winds increasing their velocity and gustiness—which is why Wellington is known to Kiwis as “Windy Wellington”. Zephyrometer is situated in one of the capital’s windier spots en-route to the airport at Evans Bay which means it has been enjoyed by millions since 2003, and sees it regarded with some affection and pride by many Wellingtonians. My involvement with the Zephyrometer project began in 2002 when I was commissioned by Phil to illustrate a mock-up of the work and layout his successful submission to the Meridian competition.
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Zephyrometer wind sculpture reinstallation

Zephyrometer kinetic sculpture reinstated 2014

After 11 years in action the completely refurbished Zephyrometer is re-installed (April 10–11, 2014, Evans Bay, Wellington, New Zealand)

Wellington is located at the southern tip of Aotearoa / New Zealand’s North Island / Te Ika-a-Māui and sits plum in the middle of the Roaring 40s, in addition the geography of narrow Cook Strait separating North & South islands funnels the strong westerly winds increasing their velocity and gustiness—which is why Wellington is known to Kiwis as “Windy Wellington”. Zephyrometer is situated in one of the capital’s windier spots en-route to the airport which means it has been enjoyed by millions since 2003, and sees it regarded with some affection and pride by many Wellingtonians. This gallery is a chronicle of the final day in the re-installation after routine maintenance and refurbishment of this marvellous work.
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Pionair aircraft with fluid livery designed and applied by myself, Shaun Waugh, in 2006.

Logo in the sky: Pionair

Pionair logo Working for Pionair Aviation in the old Air Force Tower at the Wigram Airfield in Christchurch, New Zealand and at Sydney Bankstown Airport in Australia, my strength at creating powerful brands that flow across all print and web media as well as hands-on skills with 3D objects and sign graphics was put to good use.
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